Kiev, Ukraine, is nearly 6,200 miles from Tulare, Calif. That's a long way from home for Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., who now faces explosive allegations that he and his staff contacted shadowy Ukrainian figures in an effort to betray American democracy.

Text messages released by the House Intelligence Committee last week reveal that a top Nunes...Read more

Starting last summer, very sick patients began showing up in emergency rooms all over the country with similar symptoms -- mainly, they couldn't breathe.

The outbreak peaked in September and has since slowed considerably. By mid-December, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported, a total of 2,506 patients in all 50 states had ...Read more

The announcement last week that President Donald Trump and the White House were considering shifting billions of dollars more in military funding in addition to the $6 billion already taken from the Pentagon's budget to build Trump's "big, beautiful wall" along the U.S.-Mexico border triggered the usual responses from Democrats who said it would...Read more

The landmark contract tentatively reached by the WNBA owners and its players association represents a new frontier for professional athletics. If approved by league governors and players, it should be modeled by sports leagues everywhere as a baseline for equity.

Veteran Seattle Storm star Sue Bird labeled the deal "historic" for the league ...Read more

By many counts, the trade deal President Trump signed on Jan. 15 with China lacks heft. It doesn't remove all the tariffs, it doesn't impose any major penalties on intellectual property theft, and it punts completely on issues including China's state subsidies to prop up its own companies in international markets.

Yet on one matter, the ...Read more

Nearly two years ago, the governing board of Effingham County, Ill., passed a resolution declaring itself a "sanctuary county" and barring "employees from enforcing the unconstitutional actions of the state government." Those actions? Gun control laws, which are resoundingly unpopular in the rural county some 215 miles south of Chicago.

Since ...Read more

It could almost have been "Saturday Night Live," satire intended for giggles instead of what was hypocritically intended. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave a speech about impeaching President Trump and cited a Longfellow poem, saying, "Listen my children and you will hear/ Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere."

Revere, we know, was aiming to alert...Read more

There's a fine line between gamesmanship and outright cheating in sports.

Members of the Houston Astros not only crossed that line; they practically obliterated it by using video technology to steal signs and gain an unfair advantage on their way to a World Series victory.

Major League Baseball found in 2017 and 2018 Astros players and coaches...Read more

Nearly two years ago, the governing board of Effingham County, Ill., passed a resolution declaring itself a "sanctuary county" and barring "employees from enforcing the unconstitutional actions of the state government." Those actions? Gun control laws, which are resoundingly unpopular in the rural county some 215 miles south of Chicago.

Since ...Read more

The message from Buckingham Palace to Queen Elizabeth's grandson, Prince Harry, and his wife, Meghan Markle, was clear: You're in or you're out. There is no part-time work for royals. Harry and Meghan chose out.

That's kind of sad. And surprising. What -- they couldn't all work this out?

I get it that, barely two years into a marriage that was...Read more

For a nation forged in bloody revolution against an unjust monarchy, America sure loves the pomp and circumstance of ancient royalty. That was driven home for the umpteenth time on Saturday when I flipped on CNN and they were covering the news that The Artist Formerly Known as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will no longer be called "royal ...Read more

It was impossible to watch the opening of Donald Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate last week without feeling a sense of patriotism.

Regardless of where you stand on the issue, the ceremonial ritual was impressive. The pomp and circumstance was deliberate and anticipatory, every movement perfectly choreographed and steeped in tradition.

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WASHINGTON -- For most of his 29 years in Congress, Bernie Sanders was mainly a left-wing gadfly, a relentless critic of the bipartisan Cold War consensus and a defender of regimes that resisted U.S. power.

When he ran for president four years ago, the senator from Vermont barely mentioned world affairs; his campaign website didn't even have a ...Read more

Did House Speaker Nancy Pelosi overplay her hand by delaying the articles of impeachment for a month before submitting them to the Senate on Jan. 16?

At least two guests on the Jan. 12 edition of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" think so. The Washington Post's Rachel Bade said that Pelosi failed to get what she had hoped from the delay, ...Read more

"It's going to be like breaking up with everyone you know."

That's what a colleague predicted three years ago when I took a new job in Chicago and would leave hundreds of my primary care patients in Boston.

She was right. Six months of serial breakups.

I had spent a good part of the prior 15 years developing deep relationships with my ...Read more

When former New York senator and scholar Daniel Patrick Moynihan died in 2003, he was celebrated for his hugely productive careers in both politics and academia, and admired for his wit. His aphorism -- "You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts." -- was often cited.

But as the 21st century careens along, ...Read more

Henry Louis Gates Jr., the host of "Finding Your Roots," had just asked Queen Latifah to turn to the next page on the book of her ancestors he presented her on the PBS show.

"I'm starting to get scared to turn these pages," she said in the wake of having just found such ancestral surprises as a white great-great-grandmother.

Gates directed her...Read more