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Howdy, y'all. I was kinda hoping the global warming folks'd answer a few questions. Now, I'm just an Oklahoma redneck, dropped out of school, but I got me a GED and even took some courses down to the college. So I heard about this global warming and looked over some of the books and papers on...

When German farmers and activists descended upon Chancellor Angela Merkel's office building Wednesday morning, they brought along some special guests — 17 pigs. The stunt was the latest European backlash against a proposed free trade deal with the U.S. that could lift restrictions on American...

So, the Gouvernement du Canda and M. Etienne Harper (pronounced "arp-AIR") have launched an ad campaign in Washington to convince us they're our bestest buddies. They've posted the following all over our public transit: I thought it was a pretty good effort, especially how they...

Online dating relationship ends badly, $1.3M later Jennifer Quinn - News reporter, Robert Cribb - Foreign, Investigations, Staff Reporters, Toronto Star 2 days ago Ellen was retired, living a comfortable life in a nice home in British Columbia. In the driveway was a luxury car, and her...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) -- The festively lit spruce that will light the halls of the Rhode Island State House this December will have a more holiday-specific moniker this year, and one local clergyman is pleased with the governor's decision. In a release sent Monday morning, R.I. Gov. Lincoln...

Corporations aren’t people By Harold Meyerson, Published: November 26 If you thought this “corporations are people” business was getting out of hand, brace yourself. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court accepted two cases that will determine whether a corporation can deny contraceptive coverage to...

DALLAS — This city didn’t murder President John F. Kennedy — a madman with a mail-order rifle did. But for years Dallas has dealt with the stigma that the thirty-fifth president of the United States was gunned down here. On Friday, 50 years to the day after the president was killed, the city...

The Tea Party believes in American values like tradition, property rights, and keeping your word. Or so they say. In 1828, when Frederick County purchased 94 acres from farmers Elias and Catherine Brunner to build an almshouse, the deed stipulated that the land should be “for the benefit of...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Trey Radel, R-Fla., was caught buying drugs as part of a federal investigation into a Washington, D.C., drug ring last month and is being charged with cocaine possession, according to a senior Drug Enforcement Administration official. The official, who was not authorized to...

Trial of Bolotnaya 12 seen as a warning against challenging the Kremlin By Kathy Lally IN MOSCOW — The defendants sit in glass cages, bored or distracted, paying little heed to the case. It’s as though they’re extras in a tedious experimental theater production. The prosecutors, two young...

NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say - The Washington Post Doesn't anybody remember when Gen. John Singlaub, of Iran-Contra fame, announced the Total...

Well, here we are. The actual cost. . . So, the second-lowest "silver" insurance option (kinda the mid-range), AFTER the tax credit, is seven percent of your gross annual earnings, assuming you make $12.50/hour, a bit less than double the minimum wage.

Or maybe an Irish-American Catholic. . . What Maryland does better than Texas By Martin O’Malley Martin O’Malley, a Democrat, is governor of Maryland. With gridlock and partisanship having all but paralyzed Washington, governors are at the forefront of our country’s policy divide. On the...

This should be fun. When the Redskins take the field in Green Bay Sunday, they'll have to contend with more than a stadium full of Packers fans. Members of the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin will also be on hand to protest the team name, according to the Green Bay Gazette “We support...

The Associated Press TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- Several prominent leaders in Alabama weighed in Friday on allegations that all-white sororities passed over two prospective black members because of pressure from alumnae, and in one case, an adviser. Paul Bryant Jr., the president pro tem of the...

Today is the anniversary of a vicious, unprovoked attack on the United States by lunatic barbarians bent on dominating the world. Having burned Washington, on September 11, 1814 a British naval force sailed up the Chesapeake Bay with orders to take Baltimore. The British guns had greater...

WASHINGTON -- The "Beacon Hill Bandit" has robbed the same Hybla Valley bank for the fifth time. The FBI says the man hit the TD Bank across from the Beacon Hill Shopping Center on Richmond Highway around 11 a.m. Monday. They say he robbed that same bank four times between March of 2010 and...

NFL falls leave 1 fan dead, 2 hurt TERRY COLLINS Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- NFL opening day excitement was tarnished with the death of one fan who fell from a pedestrian overpass outside the big game in San Francisco, and injuries to two others from falls inside the Indianapolis...

By Sarah Kliff and Lena H. Sun Every month, a hundred or so people crowd the lobby of the Arlington Free Clinic, clutching blue tickets to enter a health-care lottery. Uninsured and ailing, they hope to be among the two dozen who hit the jackpot and are given free care. Some might think the...

By Michael S. Rosenwald The push by 50 western Virginia counties to secede in 1863, forming West Virginia at the height of the Civil War, was led by a charismatic store-clerk-turned-lawyer who famously urged his supporters: “Cut the knot now! Cut it now! Apply the knife.” West Virginia was...