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GOP leaders should demand answers but appear much more likely to reward loyalty

The House of Representatives spent Dec. 23 passing the $1.65 trillion omnibus spending blowout, and the bill is loaded with earmarks and pet priorities from health care to public lands that few members have bothered to read. This is no way to run a government, and compounding the embarrassment is that half of the lawmakers had already ditched Washington for the holidays.

University officials have been curiously nonchalant  

The most real things in the world are those that neither a child nor an adult can see

Biden, 80, sounds like he's going to run again, while Trump, 76, has announced his bid

With Republicans poised to take over the House next year, a divided Congress looms. The result could be two years of partisan strife and gridlock.

The release of WNBA star Brittney Griner after 10 months of Russian detention is cause for justifiable celebration. It has spared Griner from the possibility of years in a Russian penal colony, a punishment that far exceeded her alleged offense, and reunited her with friends and family.

A looming national rail strike was narrowly averted, after the Senate voted 80-15 to impose a bargaining agreement on intransigent unions. Brokered by the Biden administration, the deal includes an extra paid day off, along with a 24% pay raise through 2024. Eight of the 12 rail unions ratified it, but four voted it down.

On the surface, the holiday retail season is off to a great start. Almost 200 million U.S. shoppers turned out in person and online from Thanksgiving Day to Cyber Monday, and holiday retail sales are expected to rise between 6% and 8% from last year to nearly $1 trillion. Amazon reported its most successful launch of a holiday shopping season ever.

Many politicians from both major political parties campaigned this year on pledges to tackle rising prices, which have made it hard for many Americans to afford basic necessities.

The United States has an alarming problem: civic negligence. The signs of civic decline and decay are all around us -- threats of extremist violence, book bans and legislative efforts to restrict honest discussions of history in schools.

Thank you for your service, Iowa and New Hampshire. But it's time to end the prominent, influential perch you two small rural states have long enjoyed in winnowing the list of presidential contenders.

Rock star's transformation should reassure Americans about globalization

OUR VIEW: It's great to be back doing what we love

The U.S. Senate has taken a major step toward protecting same-sex and interracial marriage by advancing a landmark bill that would rightfully recognize the legality of such marriages in every state in the nation.

OUR VIEW: A clean break is needed, not timid hedging that hopes he’ll go away on his own

Commodity markets set prices, which can

drop quickly, as they did during pandemic

OUR VIEW: Democracy shines while Trump and transparency tumble

Florida governor is more disciplined, less gaffe-prone and speaks the MAGA language

We may be entering a new chapter in the gamification of American politics: election betting.

Congress should back promising bill to deal with asylum more efficiently, effectively

America is now a nation where acts of political violence are so predictable that for months before an assailant broke into the San Francisco home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacked her husband, Paul Pelosi, last week, experts have warned such an incident was likely.