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House Speaker Mike Johnson, a quick study in the art of laying it on thick, announced that he was teaming up with Israel’s Knesset speaker to invite parliamentary leaders from around the world to jointly nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize — and for nothing less than inaugurating “a ...
To the editor: Sen. Moran, In writing from the “Young Republicans”: “I love Hitler.” “Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.” “‘Hey, come on in. “Take a nice shower and relax.’ Boom - they’re dead.” “Watermelon people” “Fat stinky ...
With yet another round of tariffs taking effect this week — this time on cabinets and other furniture, timber and lumber — the White House insists that its policies are about “fairness” and “reciprocity.” The evidence now tells a different story of higher prices for Americans, ...
Are we entering an era of government by harassment? KCUR reporters recently interviewed immigration lawyers and former detainees in order to analyze the conditions in the Chase County Jail in Cottonwood Falls, where many immigration detainees are being held. Referring to the situation as a ...
So Democrat Janet Mills, governor of Maine, is running against Susan Collins, the state’s Republican senator since 1997. An established political figure would be running against another established political figure, yet the current reportage for Mills tends to start off with “77-year-old ...
In 1940, then U.S. Attorney General Robert Jackson gathered the nation’s federal prosecutors in the Justice Department’s Great Hall to remind them of the solemn role their morality and disregard of politics in decision-making played in protecting American democracy. The responsible, ...
