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Trump’s next first speech to Congress is bound to have little resemblance to his last first one
The nation will hear a new president sing a far different tune in his prime-time address before Congress on Tuesday night. Some Americans will lustily sing along. Others will plug...
Supreme Court leak shakes trust in one more American pillar
Is there a new American motto: In nothing we trust?
AP FACT CHECK: Republicans twist Ketanji Brown Jackson’s judicial record
In the court of public opinion — like the Supreme Court nomination hearings coming this week — politicians ask questions of witnesses to score points for their side. In the...
AP FACT CHECK: Biden’s State of the Union is off on guns, EVs
President Joe Biden related a faulty Democratic talking point about guns in his first State of the Union speech, made his plan on electric vehicles sound more advanced than it...
After Biden’s first year, the virus and disunity rage on
From the inaugural platform, President Joe Biden saw American sickness on two fronts — a disease of the national spirit and the one from the rampaging coronavirus — and he...
Senate leader, presidential candidate Bob Dole dies at 98
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Bob Dole, who overcame disabling war wounds to become a sharp-tongued Senate leader from Kansas, a Republican presidential candidate and then a symbol and celebrant of...
Token of all tokens: Could a $1T coin fix the debt limit?
Some politicians think they've found a silver bullet for the impasse over the debt limit, except the bullet is made of platinum: Mint a $1 trillion coin, token of all...
AP FACT CHECK: Biden skirts broken promise on Afghanistan exit
President Joe Biden glossed over his broken promise to keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan until the last Americans are out and offered the faint assurance -- even with the last...
AP FACT CHECK: Biden skirts U.S. failures in Afghan chaos
President Joe Biden ignored his own administration’s failures Monday when he tried to explain why desperate civilians in Afghanistan’s capital have been left stranded and in danger from the Taliban...
FACT CHECK: Trump stokes Jan. 6 conspiracy theories
Former President Donald Trump is falsely describing the circumstances of Ashli Babbitt's death as he foments conspiracy theories about the siege of the Capitol on Jan. 6 and all the...