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Democrats have passion to run, but do they have a playbook for winning back seats?

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The women darting through the statehouse here alongside mentoring lawmakers have what Democrats need: sterling resumes, grit and anger at President Donald Trump so deep that they are overlooking misgivings about establishment politics to run under the…

 

Congress gunman was an opinionated Bernie Sanders supporter from Illinois

The gunman who attacked a congressional baseball practice in Virginia on Wednesday, wounding five, has been identified as a passionate Bernie Sanders supporter and campaign volunteer who had long expressed his hatred for Republicans on social media. He was pronounced…

 

Top House GOP leader shot at congressional baseball practice; gunman, identified as Belleville man, dies of injuries

The FBI will take over the investigation of the shooting, which also injured two Capitol police officers and a congressional aide.

 

What counting Florida butterflies can tell the world about climate change

MIAMI (TNS) — Every year when summer temperatures sizzle and the rest of South Florida heads inside, a dedicated crew of citizen scientists ventures into the buggy heat to do an increasingly difficult job: count butterflies.

 

Compared to George W. Bush and Obama, Trump doesn’t micromanage the military

WASHINGTON (TNS) — President George W. Bush spoke with his military commander in Iraq nearly every week.

 

Comey says Trump lied, pressured him to drop Flynn probe

WASHINGTON (TNS) — In extraordinary testimony to Congress on Thursday, former FBI Director James Comey accused President Donald Trump of pressuring him to end an investigation into the president’s ousted national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and also claimed that Trump…

 

John Dean helped bring down Richard Nixon. He thinks Donald Trump is even worse

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (TNS) — John Dean is a connoisseur of cover-ups, a savant of scandal, so he can more than imagine what it’s like inside the Trump White House right now.

 

If he were back as White House counsel, here’s what John Dean would tell President Trump

In one of the indelible moments of the Watergate scandal, former White House counsel John Dean can be heard on a secretly recorded Oval Office tape warning President Richard Nixon of a cancer on his presidency: The break-in at Democratic…

 

The UAE has the tallest building, biggest mall, largest fake island -- now it wants Mars

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (TNS) — On Earth, the United Arab Emirates boasts the tallest building, the largest artificial island and the biggest shopping mall, which includes an indoor ski resort and a colony of penguins.

 

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