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ATLANTA (AP) - Just days before Democratic activists pick a new party chair, the contest to head the Democratic National Committee remains fluid, as national leaders grapple with how to turn an outpouring of liberal protest against President Donald ...
Updated: Feb 22, 2017 at 06:31 PM
Donald Trump likes to say you learn very little from a tax return. TurboTax thinks you can learn a whole lot, and that it can earn a whole lot from it, too.
This tax season marks the latest effort by TurboTax, Intuit's popular tax software, to open ...
Updated: Feb 21, 2017 at 06:22 AM
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A failed attempt to sneak into Japan to visit Disneyland in 2001 may have doomed the leadership dreams of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un's elder brother, who was assassinated this week in an airport in Malaysia.
Banished...
Published: Feb 15, 2017 at 07:00 AM
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A blunt and combative Republican who sneers at political correctness. Insurgent candidates striking populist notes. Establishment figures on the defensive. A former TV star with political ambitions.
The governor's races this yea...
Updated: Feb 15, 2017 at 09:05 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fired by one American commander in chief for insubordination, Michael Flynn has now delivered his resignation to another.
President Donald Trump had been weighing the fate of his national security adviser, a hard-charging, feather-...
Updated: Feb 14, 2017 at 11:01 AM
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Residents of Indonesia's capital vote Wednesday in an election for governor that has become a high-stakes tussle between conservative and moderate forces in the world's most populous Muslim nation. Religion and race, rather...
Updated: Feb 13, 2017 at 06:31 PM
NEW YORK (AP) - HBO's ads promoting John Oliver on "Last Week Tonight" depict him cowering behind a desk, with the tag line, "Scary times call for a scared man."
Be not afraid. Between Oliver's return Sunday from a three-month hiatus and Donald Trum...
Updated: Feb 10, 2017 at 11:06 AM
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:
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Feb. 7
The Detroit News on U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos:
Betsy DeVos has endured weeks of attacks on her character - and her mission to make schools work for children. But ...
Updated: Feb 08, 2017 at 05:00 PM
LYON, France (AP) - Marine Le Pen, the far-right presidential candidate, is unveiling her platform at a weekend conference, envisioning a thriving nation "made in France." That means a state having its own borders to guard, its own currency to spend...
Published: Feb 04, 2017 at 07:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) - Declaring that religious freedom is "under threat," President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to repeal a rarely enforced IRS rule that says pastors who endorse candidates from the pulpit risk losing their tax-exempt status.
"I will ge...
Updated: Feb 02, 2017 at 09:00 PM