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Both sides of the parliamentary aisle are making full use of social media to attack each other... in increasingly vicious fashion. Could such antics swing the next election?

Progressive activists and bad polls haven't convinced Joe Biden to stand down — now it's time for the Hail Mary

Ex-GOP strategist believes the governor’s mix of awkwardness and nastiness will end his campaign, while a pollster says nothing can be predicted when it comes to the Iowa caucuses where it comes down to what happens in the room on the night, Gustaf Kilander reports

Tim Alberta is a fine guide to the world of conservative US Christians, their dispiriting march to the right, and its ugly cost

One fall day in 2010, retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor slipped into the courtroom where she worked for nearly 25 years to take in an “amazing” sight — three women in black robes

Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve as a justice on the US Supreme Court, wielded enormous influence as the key centrist on a sharply divided bench, where she often displayed a preference for pragmatism over ideology.

The United States looms large at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. Historically, it's responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than any other nation. But it's also key for major breakthroughs.

The enduring fealty of Democrats to the late Republican has baffled many progressives

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Statistics show that ice hockey has more concussion injuries at the youth level based on athletic exposures, a reader says.

In his first remarks after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel, President Joe Biden affirmed the United States offered “rock solid and unwavering” support to Israel, “just as we have (done) from the moment the United States became the first nation to recognize Israel, 11 minutes after its…