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WASHINGTON (TNS) — A group of top Democratic Party strategists have used new data about last year’s presidential election to reach a startling conclusion about why Hillary Clinton lost. Now they just need to persuade the rest of the party…

MEXICO CITY — The beasts are brown and hairless except for a wiry mohawk. Their bodies, warm and slightly waxy, call to mind a hot water bottle with four legs.

CHICAGO (TNS) — Chicago’s Trump Tower has an unusually large number of condominiums for sale and for rent, and real estate agents predict that a glut of available units in the building may pressure owners to drop their prices.

SAN DIEGO (TNS) — Competition to build President Donald Trump’s border wall is underway, with 467 companies nationwide submitting bids and designs to construct what was a centerpiece promise of Trump’s campaign.

Thanks to scientists who have ventured outside the laboratory, we have learned that tight-knit groups of females experience synchronized menstrual periods over time, that cohesive groups engaged in decision-making discount dissenting viewpoints in the interests of consensus, and that couples…

WASHINGTON — When President Donald Trump brought 55 teachers of the year from around the country into the Oval Office, Arizona’s top teacher, Michelle Doherty, began to cry, apparently in happiness.

ATLANTA (TNS) — In the first presidential speech to the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in more than three decades, Donald Trump on Friday pledged to repay gun owners for helping to propel him to his stunning rise to the…

NEW YORK (AP) — With a headline of "Yep, I'm Gay" on the cover of Time magazine and the same declaration on her sitcom, Ellen DeGeneres made history 20 years ago as the first prime-time lead on network TV to…

WASHINGTON (TNS) — When a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011, the White House suddenly found itself confronting a nuclear crisis halfway across the globe.