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PITTSBURGH — Mifepristone, a drug used for miscarriage management and to end pregnancy, has been thrust again into the national spotlight — this time with response from Gov. Josh Shapiro.

The Pennsylvania governor ...Read more

How can you “opt out” of your mother? I recently received a kindly worded email from Ancestry.com.

“We realize that for some, Mother’s Day may be a tough time, if you prefer not to receive emails about our Mother�...Read more

Hate communities often flourish online for years, raising the question of how they persist. My research team has found that powerful stories keep members of a hate group galvanized, either by repeating the story over ...Read more

The headline in The Washington Post said: “Trump disapproval reaches new high, Post-ABC-Ipsos poll finds.” The sub headline ...Read more

In June 2017, with President Donald Trump newly installed in office for the first time, one of the biggest battles with the administration was about oil. He’d just named the chief executive of Exxon Mobil, Rex Tillerson,...Read more

CHICAGO — Cook County Commissioner Tara Stamps declared after a recent meeting that she’d had enough.

Jessica Jackson, a member of the group Chicago Flips Red, had taken to the podium that March morning during public ...Read more

President Donald Trump charged into this destructive crusade without a word to Congress, without a clear rationale for why he was doing it and, now, with a spiraling price tag for the American taxpayers.

No, we’re not ...Read more

¿Qué en la fregada?

What the hell?

That's what I muttered after learning that Los Angeles Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez wants to allow noncitizens to vote in city and school board elections.

Talk about a solution ...Read more

Gerald Kowalczyk tried to buy a hamburger with credit cards he found on the floor. Then, while presumed innocent, he spent months in a California jail — not because a judge determined he was dangerous, not because he ...Read more

The Department of Energy (DOE) has increasingly become a vehicle for federal spending to shape energy markets and subsidize favored technologies. The result has been higher energy costs, growing deficits, and a sprawling ...Read more

Late last year, Target Corp. started giving detailed guidance to store employees about how to act. The 10-4 rule, as the company calls it, directs them to smile, make eye contact and wave when a shopper comes within 10 ...Read more

Intelligence agencies often complain that they are judged unfairly because you hear about their failures, not their successes. It’s hard to evaluate anything based on what didn’t happen — even when that’s really ...Read more

Spring never asks. It shows up pushing green through dirt that barely gives, cracking open what winter froze, murmuring to everything stalled: try again. This is the season of robes and tassels, names called out, and the ...Read more

Lawns are everywhere. In the U.S., they cover tens of millions of acres, more land than we devote to many crops grown for food. But unlike those crops, most lawns don’t feed anyone. They demand time, water, fertilizer ...Read more

WASHINGTON — North Carolina Rep. Chuck Edwards’ electability is being viewed differently by at least one group after allegations surfaced that he sexually harassed young female staffers in his office.

Edwards ...Read more

For years, critics of the Jones Act have made the same promises: Repeal the law, allow foreign vessels into domestic trade, and American consumers will see lower prices and stronger supply chains. Now the real-world test ...Read more

The Trump administration’s recent decision to issue a 60-day waiver of the Jones Act — extended just last week by an additional 90 days — amid the continuing conflict in the Middle East was a recognition of a ...Read more

An indelible image from the Minnesota Star Tribune’s coverage of last August’s Annunciation Catholic School shooting — which on Monday, May 4, was deservedly awarded a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news — is of a ...Read more

What distinguishes us from a monarchy? The fact that all power is not lodged in one man or one department. The fact that no one is above the law. Even the president, even one like Donald Trump, who believes in extensive ...Read more