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Yellen says White House needs Congress to avoid debt default

Comment on this storyCommentTreasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen on Sunday urged congressional Republicans to drop their demand that President Biden cut spending in...

What We Know About the Allen, Texas, Mall Shooting

The residents and authorities in a Dallas suburb on Sunday began to process the shooting at a crowded mall in which the police...

Perspective | Banning clothes with political slogans at school, and other news literacy lessons

Comment on this storyCommentHere’s the latest installment of a regular feature I’ve been running for several years: lessons from the nonprofit News Literacy...

Opinion | Cartoon by Walt Handelsman

A guest editorial cartoon by Walt Handelsman. Source link

Inmate Pleads Guilty in Alabama Jail Escape

An Alabama inmate whose escape from jail last spring set off a nationwide manhunt pleaded guilty on Thursday to the escape in exchange...

Opinion | There’s a war raging. It’s against normal politics.

Comment on this storyCommentThe distemper in public opinion can be explained by many factors, including a social hangover from the pandemic and economic...

Amazing base: A singer wed in a D.C. ballpark, and 19,000 paid to attend

Comment on this storyCommentThey held the wedding at Griffith Stadium, home to Washington’s then-baseball team, the Senators. The bride and her procession walked...

Opinion | Beijing is destroying the last vestiges of democracy in Hong Kong

Comment on this storyCommentEver since Beijing and its handpicked officials in Hong Kong began rolling back the city’s freedoms three years ago, the...

Opinion | Here’s the debt limit compromise the U.S. needs

Comment on this storyCommentTwo things are simultaneously true: Congress needs to raise the debt limit as soon as June 1 to avoid the...

Opinion | How Congress is grandstanding its way to obsolescence

Comment on this storyCommentThe Biden administration has leaked to the media that it’s weighing a constitutional end-run around Congress in the debt-ceiling...

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