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Trayon White, a member of the city council in the District of Columbia, just walked away from a hung jury in a bribery trial. The facts were kind of wild. Though White admitted to accepting $35,000 in cash from a city contractor (who turned out to be an FBI informant), and the prosecution presented evidence that he tucked white envelopes full ...Read more

After Tennessee unsuccessfully tried to execute Christa Pike last week, an ambulance whisked her to a Nashville hospital, where the condemned murderer became a patient in urgent need of lifesaving care. Should Pike recover from two botched administrations of pentobarbital, which left her unconscious and unable to breathe on her own, she might ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Cornell University obviously doesn't offer students a course on how to make good decisions. Because based on what we know about an alleged gang rape of a young woman in the fall of 2024 by members of a fraternity on the Ivy League campus, it's obvious that all the students involved behaved badly.

This story isn't just disgusting....Read more

I shared the September PBS NewsHour report "Is the American Dream still achievable for younger generations?" with my English composition students this week as we begin our Gen Z and the Workplace theme for their second research essay. I found this report, which is part of PBS senior correspondent Judy Woodruff's continuing "Crossroads: America...Read more

More high schools across America are requiring students to pass the U.S. citizenship test to receive their diploma.

This fall Iowa began giving its version — a multiple-choice test drawn from the same exam immigrants must pass.

Only 60% of the more than 100 Burlington students who took it passed on the first try. In surveys, the average ...Read more

As predictions of a blue wave swell, it's worthwhile to remember that polls are sometimes wrong, that surveys have tended to undercount Trump voters (though they have been better in midterms), that professional prognosticators can err, and that Allan Lichtman is only right when he's lucky. And yet, if there has ever been a politician who has ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- This week's California gubernatorial debate on CNN wasn't just dreadful. At times, it was downright painful.

As a native of the Golden State, I have to ask: With 33 days until the Nov. 3 election, is it too late to consider more applicants?

In a state that is home to nearly 40 million people, and which boasts the world's fourth-...Read more

Half a century ago, Congress approved the Controlled Substances Act, which established a system for classifying drugs based on their "medical use" and "potential for abuse." But as a recent report from the Government Accountability Office notes, the statute does not clearly define either criterion, opening the door to debatable and changeable ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- What's going on with Gavin Newsom?

Earlier this month, in a conversation with CNN's Jake Tapper that took place in a freezing-cold river in Montana where the two regular guys were supposedly fly-fishing, the 58-year-old California governor caught what he was really angling for: attention.

Newsom told Tapper that he would not run...Read more

I can’t wait to live in a condo again — because I’m addicted to long, hot showers.

Currently, I own a house and I have to pay for every extra ounce of water I use. In the condo, I will have help.

You see, there are 40 owners in my condo association, so I will pay only one-fortieth of the water bill, the gas to heat it and the sewage to ...Read more

During Pope Leo XIV's four-day visit to France, he was asked by reporters to share his thoughts on what the United States and China should do to prevent artificial intelligence from acting independently in a way that would threaten our everyday existence. He was very direct in his response, stating, "We can't just sit back and pretend nothing ...Read more

The home of Dwight Eisenhower and Amelia Earhart is rarely part of the national conversation -- but that could be about to change. It is becoming clear that the race for Senate this year could be a huge upset. In the 19th century, Kansas was the scene of violent clashes over slavery, which temporarily earned it the moniker "bleeding Kansas," ...Read more

"The White House is not instituting an assault on the Free Press, something which I cherish," President Donald Trump declared on Monday. "It is instituting an assault on the FAKE NEWS."

Trump was attempting to rebut the criticism provoked by his announcement last Friday that he was "banning" CNN, MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) and Politico "from the...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Change of plans, folks.

For the last several weeks, I've been planning to write a column on artificial intelligence (AI). It was going to be about how Americans need to chill and not worry so much about the possibility of AI replacing them or preventing their 20-something kids from getting jobs. The working title was going to be:...Read more

One of the fun things I love during the NFL season is getting into the back-and-forth banter on Facebook with my high school and college friends. One of my college classmates posts his weekly "Bum List," where he asks those of us whose teams lost the previous Sunday to still "rep" our squad. As a lifelong Dallas Cowboys fan, I have taken some ...Read more

In two states where school-choice vouchers are available, many parents are choosing Catholic schools. After my own Catholic school experience, I think I know why.

The school-choice fight

A school-choice battle has been under way in many states across the country.

Parents want vouchers so they can pay private-school tuition. Public-school ...Read more

On the Sunday evening of Labor Day weekend, after a delightful dinner with close friends, I tripped over one of those ubiquitous electric rent-a-scooters. I went down hard, landing on my knee and arm, though luckily not hitting my head. At home that night, I couldn't even bend my left elbow enough to remove my earrings or necklace. For those ...Read more