WASHINGTON — President Trump’s lawyers urged the Supreme Court on Monday to block a judge’s order requiring the government to “immediately” rehire 16,000 federal employees. In an…
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At his 2005 Senate confirmation hearing to be chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, John G. Roberts Jr. famously invoked America’s national pastime…
Hello and happy Thursday. The so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, which I’ll say again is not a real government entity, is continuing its…
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Hello and happy Thursday. Today we’re starting with a quiz. Which American political leader said, “The professors are the enemy”? That would be Richard Nixon,…
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Hello and happy Thursday. President Trump addressed Congress — and America — Tuesday night in a speech that was both painfully long and studded with…
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Hello and happy Thursday. MAGA Republicans love babies, as they are quick to claim — the more the better! As long as they don’t have…
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WASHINGTON — A unanimous Supreme Court on Friday dealt a severe blow to Holocaust survivors and their families in a long-running lawsuit seeking compensation from Hungary for…
Hello and happy Thursday. Welcome to the “Is reality dead?” edition of this column, in which Vladimir Putin is our friend, egg prices don’t matter…
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Hello and happy Thursday. Organic eggs are $9.99 a dozen and have become so valuable people are stealing them — in Pennsylvania, 100,000 eggs worth…
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Hello and happy Thursday. Week three, day four. Chaos seems like an insufficient term to grasp the confusion and fear that has overtaken many of…
Hello and happy Thursday. The whirlwind continues. On Wednesday, the White House further backed away from its sweeping and potentially devastating freeze on federal funding…
PHOENIX — Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs appointed Maria Elena Cruz to the Arizona Supreme Court on Wednesday, making the state appellate judge from rural Yuma County…
Hello and happy Tuesday. President Trump, as you probably know, visited Los Angeles on Friday, greeting Gov. Gavin Newsom on the tarmac. Their handshake really…