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Handel Hangs On in Most Expensive House Race Ever

The Democrats threw millions behind her young challenger, only to watch him lose by 5 percentage points...  Read more

Saudi King Salman upends royal succession, names son as first heir

Saudi Arabia's King Salman has appointed his 31-year-old son Mohammed bin Salman as crown prince, removing the country's counterterrorism czar and a figure well-known to Washington from the royal line of succession...  Read more

Lost factories and construction pushed Erie County to put its hope in Trump

Todd Sias couldn't wait to show us the photographs...  Read more

Border adjustment foes hope Paul Ryan abandoning idea for lower tax rates

Ryan conspicuously skirted the issue of border adjustment in a heavily promoted speech at the National Association of Manufacturers...  Read more

Republicans hope to avoid Georgia upset and salvage their agenda

Republicans nervously await results from Georgia Tuesday, hoping to avoid a watershed upset that could derail their ambitious agenda and drive a wedge between their congressional majorities and President Trump...  Read more

Tax reform is a real must-do

House Speaker Paul Ryan's plan, written with Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady, has its strengths...  Read more

Trails of the Jazz Age

Do we need another biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald?...  Read more

Trump Still Silent on Latest London Terror Attack

Where is President Trump’s response to the terrorist attack in London?...  Read more

Can Trump Bring Peace to Israel and Palestine?

The odds for any administration are low but his quest for personal glory might motivate him...  Read more

Mega stakes as defense companies face deadline on Air Force trainer bid

Lockheed Martin and Boeing are set to turn over flight performance data to the Air Force on their proposals for the T-X jet...  Read more

Rising to the Occasion

Journals like this one exist, generally speaking, not to praise politicians but to chastise, to upbraid, or at least to criticize them...  Read more

Lawmakers grapple with how to build from Trump's 'infrastructure week'

The Trump administration says it would use tax breaks to incentivize private business to spend more money on infrastructure projects...  Read more

Did Obamacare's individual mandate work?

Under Obamacare, the penalty for not having health insurance is $695 for an individual, or 2.5 percent of income, whichever is higher...  Read more

There's method in Jim Mattis

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis visited Capitol Hill last week and gave Congress an important message...  Read more

Bipartisan sentiment in Congress unlikely to last despite baseball game distraction

Terence Mann once told Ray Kinsella in the 1989 classic movie "Field of Dreams" that baseball "reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again."...  Read more

Senate Passes Sanctions on Iran and Russia

The upper chamber goes for the double whammy...  Read more

Nearly half of renters paying too much for housing

Forty-eight percent of renters, or 21 million people, spent more than 30 percent of their income on rent in 2015, according to a new report...  Read more

Close Virginia race shows Trump poses risks to Republican incumbents

Polls and GOP politicos had predicted that the establishment-backed Ed Gillespie would win in a rout, but he was nearly upset by an enthusiastic Trump supporter...  Read more