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FBI seized top-secret classified documents from Trump's estate
The FBI seized classified records — some marked top secret — from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, according to court documents unsealed Friday. The list of information seized includes materials labeled with... — Updated 8/12/2022
McCarthy: Subpoena compliance would set harmful precedent
WASHINGTON — House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy says a harmful precedent would be set if he and four other Republicans complied with their subpoenas to testify from the congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021,... — Updated 5/28/2022
Opinion: Dems should be more prudent with spending
As they prepare to spend $1.2 trillion on a bipartisan infrastructure deal, along with a vastly larger sum on a party-line social-policy bill, Democrats might be expected to defend their ambitions on the merits. Instead,... — Updated 10/12/2021
Opinion: There is an age too young for social media
Social media is a minefield of adolescent anxieties, as any parent can attest. Numerous studies have suggested a connection between excessive use of online platforms (and the devices used to access them) and worrying trends in... — Updated 9/25/2021
U.S. forces kill two high-profile Islamic State members
U.S. forces killed two high-profile Islamic State members and wounded another in a strike against the terrorist group blamed for the bombing that left at least 88 people dead near Kabul’s airport. The Pentagon raised the toll inf... — Updated 8/28/2021
Kabul airport explosion kills at least 10
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Thursday morning there had been an explosion outside of Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, hours after the U.S. and U.K. governments warned their citizens to avoid traveling to the... — Updated 8/26/2021 Full story
Opinion: Data collection, sharing need to improve
The past 18 months have shown that accurately counting the dead is vital for protecting the living. At the outset of the pandemic, many countries lacked adequate registration systems, and others saw their processes break down... — Updated 8/17/2021
Opinion: Donald Rumsfeld personified idea of never quitting
In the mid-2000s, I spent two years as senior military assistant to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, acting essentially as his military gatekeeper and translating his orders to the U.S. military via the Joint Chiefs of Staff.... — Updated 7/6/2021
Biden renews call for gun control
President Joe Biden renewed his call for added gun-control laws and ordered U.S. flags to fly at half-staff after a deadly shooting near the Indianapolis airport, the latest in series of massacres that have shaken the nation.... — Updated 4/17/2021
Opinion: No excuse to turn blind eye to weather
The details of what went wrong in Texas last week — most likely the biggest forced blackout in U.S. history — will take time to establish. So will exactly what to do about it. But this emergency already underlines something... — Updated 2/23/2021
Opinion: Another viewpoint: US should do more on transparency
For all its unilateral tendencies, the U.S. typically isn't known as a rogue state. But in one area it has come close: By failing to share information with other countries, it has thwarted global efforts to track down tax cheats,... — Updated 12/26/2020
Opinion: Nuclear deal must be approached with caution
After the killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist last month, President-elect Joe Biden is coming under renewed pressure to quickly resume negotiations with the regime. He should slow down and proceed with caution. Biden has... — Updated 12/8/2020
Opinion: Ginsburg's loss a double blow in 2020
The loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a double blow. It will be felt as a personal loss by millions of Americans, and it will stress America's politics at a moment when its fabric is already threatening to come apart. Consider this a... — Updated 9/22/2020
Opinion: Postal service 'intrigue' just incompetence
In politics, what looks like sordid intrigue often turns out to be garden-variety incompetence. Case in point: After much testimony and investigation, it seems likely that the U.S. Postal Service was not engaged in a plot to... — Updated 9/1/2020
Another viewpoint: Bernie Sanders' rhetoric, policies need some nuance
Kudos to Bernie Sanders for saying that he will celebrate tax day by releasing his tax returns for the last 10 years. Quite right. And congratulations to the Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate for acknowledging t... — Updated 4/13/2019
Congress should take responsibility for budget process
The process of funding the U.S. government begins when the president submits a budget request to Congress in February. Then everything falls apart. At least, that’s the way things have been going, year after year. In a more... — Updated 3/23/2019
Veterans could bring discipline to Congress
Forty years ago, military veterans made up roughly three-quarters of Congress. By 2017, the proportion had dwindled to fewer than one in five. The number of veterans on Capitol Hill will dip slightly again next year, because of... — Updated 1/12/2019
Opinion: Trump drug price plan a refreshing change
President Donald Trump has announced his first potentially strong action against America’s inordinate prescription drug prices — the first that could meaningfully lower Medicare drug spending. The idea is to narrow the gap... — Updated 11/4/2018
Indictment exposes poor self-policing
Whether or not U.S. Rep. Chris Collins engaged in insider trading, as federal prosecutors allege, his indictment last week exposes what a poor job Congress has done to guard against such transgressions. Collins, a New York... — Updated 8/15/2018
Latin America, US can agree on Venezuela
Having driven his country and its once-rich oil industry into a ditch, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is now pushing for snap elections that would allow him to lock in another term. The U.S. can halt Venezuela’s slide... — Updated 2/4/2018