Columns
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Facts Matter: Agent serving papers to Giuliani didn’t first sing to former mayorMay 25, 2024 6:00 pm - In this week’s Facts Matter column, Bob Oswald examines claims that an Arizona official sang before serving a notice of indictment on Rudy Giuliani, an expert witness was not allowed to testify in Donald Trump’s New York City trial, a video showed the cabin of an airline flight caught in severe turbulence and more.
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If the season is summer, we might feel compelled to move, but just a littleMay 25, 2024 2:00 pm - I see by my smartwatch that summer is nearly here. I could just look out the window to confirm it, but that is so analog. Or I could rely on the usual summer signposts, t...
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Jim O'Donnell: On a weekend all about valor, Danica, Caitlin and a prep runner boost the edgesMay 25, 2024 1:46 pm - THE ORIGINAL INTENT WAS to sing a simple song about a trio of athletes who have never appeared together. They are Danica Patrick, Caitlin Clark and Lily Ginsberg. Pat...
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Biden to Black students: You're nothing without meMay 25, 2024 11:02 am - Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: Rapper Cardi B told Rolling Stone magazine that she won't vote in November. It was bad news for President Joe Biden, since the influential entertainer, who describes herself as Afro-Latina, endorsed him in 2020.
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Syndicagted columnist Veronique de Rugy: With more tariffs on electric vehicles and an election featuring two pro-tariff presidential candidates on the way, the debate about how best to support and strengthen the U.S. manufacturing sector is back. Some argue, mistakenly, that the key to protecting American industries and manufacturing jobs is a set of tariffs on industrial imports.May 25, 2024 10:58 am - With more tariffs on electric vehicles and an election featuring two pro-tariff presidential candidates on the way, the debate about how best to support and strengthen th...
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Major League Baseball is killing its best rivalries with its balanced scheduleMay 24, 2024 4:55 pm - It’s getting harder and harder to work up a good, old-fashioned friendly hate in Major League Baseball.
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Could pickleball become a high school sport?May 24, 2024 6:00 am - The pickleball craze hasn’t hit the high schools … yet. Is it coming?
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Backlash: America cools on crazyMay 23, 2024 5:44 pm - The morning after the 1972 election in which Richard Nixon defeated liberal Democrat George McGovern by 23 points, New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael wandered glumly aro...
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Barrington’s Loutos mastered the computer science of pitchingMay 23, 2024 3:32 pm - Barrington native Ryan Loutos went from designing a pitching app for the St. Louis Cardinals to being one of their pitchers.
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The Trump trial and 2016 election truthersMay 23, 2024 3:22 pm - Former President Donald Trump and some Republicans famously rejected the results of the 2020 election. Trump called the election rigged. He encouraged the Jan. 6 protest ...