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WASHINGTON — Over a six-decade political career, Steny H. Hoyer, currently the longest-serving Democrat in the House, built a legacy of influence few can match.

When the former majority leader announced his retirement ...Read more

No amount of narrative-setting can convince American voters that the economy is better or worse than their own experience dictates. That’s what I’ve been telling the Republicans who’ve asked me, earnestly, if the ...Read more

That shrill, high-pitched squeal you've been hearing lately? Don't bother trying to adjust your TV or headphones, or calling your doctor for a tinnitis check. It's just America's beleaguered billionaires keening over a ...Read more

Nicolás Maduro and his wife confronted two overpowering forces last week: the U.S. military and artificial intelligence. The result was worldwide confusion and a reminder that what one sees these days is not necessarily ...Read more

As we approach the 250th anniversary of our nation’s independence in 1776, the temptation rises to focus on the year’s military engagement — but its most significant events occurred off the battlefield. Rather than ...Read more

Just how much disruption can America’s economy — and the world’s — endure?

On Monday, Denmark’s prime minister found it necessary to say, “If the U.S. chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then ...Read more

I first met Joe when he was six years old, having spent his entire life attached by a heavy logging chain to a hollowed-out air conditioning unit in a backyard in Virginia.

His surroundings more closely resembled a mud ...Read more

Picture a bridge with a clearly posted warning: without a routine maintenance fix, it will close. Engineers agree on the repair, but the construction crew in charge refuses to act. The problem is not that the fix is ...Read more

In a surprising victory for gun advocates last week, a federal court struck down California’s longstanding ban on the open carrying of firearms. The decision appears to be a seismic shift for the Golden State, yet the ...Read more

Taxes are a necessary fact of life. Although no one likes paying them, and they divert resources and cause waste, governments need revenue to provide essential (and some not-so-essential) services. And with its large debt,...Read more

There's no such thing as a "smart bomb" because bombs don't ask questions.

"You're not dropping me there," no bomb ever said. "There's kids down there."

But there are smart people, and this is one hell of a time to be ...Read more

The Wall Street Journal editorial board has delivered its share of idiocies over the past few years, but its response to the capture of Nicolas Maduro has set a new standard. Calling the military intervention "justified"...Read more

President Donald Trump has said a pardon for Sean “Diddy” Combs is off the table after reportedly receiving a personal letter from the disgraced hip-hop mogul.

During an interview with The New York Times, the 79-year-...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said he planned to meet with Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado as soon as next week, as he weighs the future governance of the ...Read more

Rep. Julia Brownley, a Democrat who has represented swaths of Ventura and Los Angeles counties for more than a decade, announced Thursday that she would not seek reelection.

"Serving our community and our country has been...Read more

DENVER — Colorado Treasurer Dave Young dropped out of the race for the hotly contested 8th Congressional District on Friday morning, further narrowing the Democratic field ahead of the June primary.

Young, who is in his...Read more

DENVER — Attorney General Phil Weiser on Thursday expanded a lawsuit filed to keep U.S. Space Command in Colorado to now encapsulate a broader “revenge campaign” that he said the Trump administration was waging ...Read more

I promised my dad that his kids -- my brother, sister and I -- would take him on one last trip. Today, we're keeping that promise. We're taking him home to visit family and old friends.

Growing up in farm country around...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democratic members of Congress on Thursday called for oversight hearings and independent probes into the fatal shooting of Renee Good by a federal immigration agent as well as the wider Trump administration ...Read more