ANNISTON, Mo. — Turns out, there are three of these places.
WASHINGTON -- Aretha Franklin, who died Thursday at 76, was more than the undisputed "Queen of Soul." She was one of the most important musicians of our time, a genius who soared above genres and expectations to create music that will live forever.
WASHINGTON -- How can a president as successful as Donald Trump be so unpopular?
WASHINGTON -- No sooner had I ordered the 2011 book Less Than Human for a late-summer read than President Trump called Omarosa Manigault Newman a "dog" and a "lowlife." Those two slurs fit nicely into author David Livingstone Smith's philosophical study of man's capacity to inflict cruelty b…
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — Unless you’re driving over from St. Louis, or perhaps from Springfield, getting to this place takes a full tank of gas, GPS and keen eyesight. No deer are more skilled at causing white-knuckle moments for drivers than Ozark deer. Consider yourself warned.
WASHINGTON -- It's hard to take Omarosa Manigault Newman's word for anything. But Lordy she has tapes, and they offer vivid proof that Donald Trump's White House is part clown show, part nest of vipers.
One question asked by our staff was whether newspapers should allow employees with conceal/carry permits to bring their weapons into the workplace.
WASHINGTON -- Imagine if it emerged that the Republican chairman of the House or Senate intelligence committee had a Russian spy working on their senate staff. Think it would cause a political firestorm? Well, this week we learned that Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., had a Chinese spy on her…
The thought of a hungry child moves all of us to want to help. Alabamians are among the most generous people in the nation. We give generously to charities fighting childhood hunger, including food banks and food closets from which local agencies and churches distribute food to hungry families.
WASHINGTON -- University of Chicago researchers -- who clearly have a lot of time on their hands -- have found that the use of certain brands and products is a good predictor of your level of affluence. This is an exercise in the obvious when it comes to a $1,000 iPhone. But the same proved …
WASHINGTON -- For President Trump, this can't be much of a vacation.
WASHINGTON — It is more typical for a prospective defendant to admit nothing rather than publicly justify everything, but Donald Trump is an innovator. His practice of doubling down on errors while denying they are errors has worked to solidify his political base. We will soon see how it far…
WASHINGTON — Everything you need to know about today’s Republican Party is summed up by a photo from President Trump’s political rally in Ohio on Saturday. Two men in the crowd look defiantly at the camera, proudly displaying the slogan on their matching T-shirts: “I’d Rather Be A Russian Th…
WASHINGTON -- This week a New York man, Carlos Bayon, was arrested after leaving threatening messages for House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., and Conference Chairman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., promising to go after their families and "feed them lead."
WASHINGTON -- It's a given that political candidates will target each other with as much oppositional propaganda as they can get away with. But with the Kremlin now playing a third-party shadow role in U.S. elections, the usual game seems to be shifting from blood sport to cold war.
First comics, then puzzles, now weather maps. Every time it seems like the dust is starting to settle in one area, something else changes, and for most newspapers, there’s no end in sight.
WASHINGTON -- Passions on the left against Brett Kavanaugh are running high. But the main lines of argument against his confirmation to the Supreme Court have pretty much crumbled.
WASHINGTON -- All of Washington is waiting with bated breath to find out whether the Mueller investigation will provide evidence proving that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia. So far, "Exhibit A" against President Trump is the meeting Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort …
WASHINGTON -- Look at the non-political news these days: Deadly wildfires burn out of control in parched California. Unusually heavy rains cause devastating floods in parts of Asia. A punishing heat wave kills scores in Japan, South Korea and normally temperate parts of Europe, pushing tempe…
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WASHINGTON -- Fox News host Tucker Carlson recently asked President Trump, "Why should my son go to Montenegro to defend it from attack?" It is a fair question -- one that many Americans were asking following Trump's performance at the NATO summit -- and it deserved a better answer than the …
Many coastal and red snapper loving Alabamians may find themselves disappointed by recent events.
WASHINGTON -- Thank God for Uncle Rudy.
Jeff Sessions’ Christian denomination, the United Methodists, formally censured him six weeks ago. Don’t forget that. This wayward Alabamian, hand-picked by an ungodly White House to lead the Department of Justice, was charged by his church with child abuse, immorality, racial discrimination…
WASHINGTON -- One of the current complaints of the Trump right concerns the treatment given to Alex Jones by Facebook, which has temporarily banned the radio host for videos that violated "community standards." According to Lou Dobbs of the Fox Business Network, "freedom of speech [is] under…
