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America is debating budgets, taxes, deficits, and spending priorities. Those discussions are necessary. But amid the political arguments, we cannot lose sight of a simple truth: every budget reflects our values.

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The numbers are alarming. More than half a million mail ballots cast in the 2024 elections were rejected and never counted. Not because they were illegitimate, but because voters often made easily avoidable mistakes.

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Every generation believes its technologies are about to destabilize the world.

The printing press initially was accused of eroding authority and unleashing uncontrollable voices. Railways were said to compress space ...Read more

Like 155 million other Americans, I get my health insurance coverage through my employer. The millions like me who are not on Medicaid or Medicare may not be closely tracking the massive changes coming to public insurance ...Read more

To hear candidate Oliver Larkin define himself as “anti-Zionist” is jarring — and that’s an understatement — as he runs in a Democratic primary to represent a South Florida congressional district that’s roughly...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Say you want a new pair of running shoes, but you just can’t make up your mind. So you spend a solid week checking them out online, coming back to one pair on a particular site again and again.

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Here we go again.

We’re approaching another presidential campaign year, and once again I am reminded of what the great sage Will Rogers said back in 1933:

"I am not a member of any organized political party,” he said...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s social media company posted steeper losses as it careened from a big cryptocurrency bet into a controversial new line of business selling faster access to market-moving posts from the U.S. ...Read more

Local law enforcement leaders are providing guidance to Minnesota voters as the Trump administration sends seven teams from the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division to monitor polling locations during Tuesday’s ...Read more

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to drastically change the childhood vaccine schedule by recommending shots be administered in separate visits to the doctor’s office.

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DENVER — U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s son was arrested last week on three felony charges related to sexual exploitation of a child in connection with a 43-second video he created in which he had sex with a 17-year-old ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump renewed his administration’s efforts to dismantle the childhood vaccination schedule with a direct attack on the measles shot, returning to a politically unpopular issue and making ...Read more

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The overwhelming defeat of two major Republican initiatives on the primary election ballot last week is giving abortion rights supporters hope that similarly energized voters will head to the polls ...Read more

DENVER — U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s son was arrested last week on three felony charges related to sexual exploitation of a child, court records show.

Tyler Boebert, 21, was arrested in Garfield County and was released...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would recommend breaking up the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three separate shots and unilaterally overhauling the national childhood...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his closest allies on Capitol Hill said they’re willing to do whatever it takes to pass the so-called SAVE America Act before the midterms — except follow through on threats to...Read more

This past weekend, the Republican-led Senate confirmed acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to be the next U.S. attorney general.

Like Richard Nixon’s attorney general, John Mitchell, Blanche has carried out the illegal...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump won court permission to revise his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corp. by excluding his earlier claim that a 12-second clip in a documentary caused ...Read more

In June 2014, it seemed the entire city was upset when a certain New York real estate developer added five 20-foot-tall serifed letters spelling his name to the 16th floor of his eponymous tower facing the Chicago River.

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