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Monday’s mass shooting at the Old National Bank in downtown Louisville is the latest reminder of America’s worsening epidemic of gun violence. It should be more than enough to spur elected officials to pass common-sense measures to keep guns away from unstable individuals.

Most people haven't saved enough to retire comfortably.

This month marks two years since President Joe Biden ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, bringing America’s two-decade war there to an end. One might hope that Washington would be engaged in a searching debate about what went wrong in that conflict. So far, alas, it’s not clear…

Imagine investing $80 over a decade and getting a $180 return. Pretty good deal, right? Now multiply those figures by a billion dollars and you get an idea of how much American citizens will benefit from additional federal funds being allocated to the Internal Revenue Service.

Timothy Egan has written a meticulous and highly relevant account of the rise of the KKK a hundred years ago

Mark Sheehan, guitarist for hit band The Script, missed out on the American leg of the band's recent greatest hits tour, with the musician taking time away from the group for his family

'Let’s once again become the shining city on the hill, setting big goals and reestablishing the U.S. as a global leader,' writes the CTA's Gary Shapiro.

CHICAGO — The Florida-born filmmaker and Bard College film professor Kelly Reichardt makes beautiful movies about harsh conditions. In the singular early 19th century Oregon-set “First Cow” and now with her newest work, the disarming seriocomedy “Showing Up,” Reichardt pays attention to lives lived, often precariously, just above a fraying…

Historians and archeologists in South Carolina are preparing to rebury 12 unknown U.S. Revolutionary War soldiers who died in the 1780 battle at Camden

Dic Donohue focuses on the divide between America’s cops and its citizens.

A Texas newborn’s recent removal from home illustrates the cruel treatment Black families face for their childcare decisions