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An assault on the republic

In a scene in Robert Bolt's famous play "A Man for All Seasons," about the treason trial of St. Thomas More, More argues with the attorney general of Wales about the law. The attorney general says he'd cut down all the laws in England to get to the Devil. More reminds him that the laws were ...

DOJ subpoenas Walz, others in immigration investigation

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors served grand jury subpoenas Tuesday to Minnesota officials as part of an investigation into whether they obstructed or impeded law enforcement during a sweeping immigration operation in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, a person familiar with the matter ...

Almanac for Jan. 21, 2026

Today is Wednesday, Jan. 21, the 21st day of 2026. There are 344 days left in the year. Today in history: In 2020, the U.S. reported its first known case of the 2019 novel coronavirus circulating in China, saying a Washington state resident who had returned the previous week from the outbreak's epicenter was hospitalized near Seattle. Also on this date: In 1793, during the French Revolution, King Louis XVI, condemned for treason, was executed by guillotine. In 1861, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, with a dramatic farewell speech, resigned his U.S. Senate seat after his state ...

ICE is law-breaking ‘law enforcement’

We've seen masked government agents roughing people up, shouting obscenities at them, trapping them on freezing cold roofs, smashing their car windows, shooting pastors with pepper balls, shoving women to the ground, separating mothers from their children and killing an unarmed American ...

Europe aims to end reliance on American for security

BRUSSELS (AP) — "Intimidation," "threats" and "blackmail" are just some of the terms being used by European Union leaders to describe U.S. President Donald Trump's warning that he will slap new tariffs on nations opposing American control of Greenland. European language has hardened since ...

Where the wind whispers and the birds sing

“And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles; they can always fly away from this rain and this cold; you can hear them singing out their telegraph code; all the way down the Telegraph Road,” – Mark Knopfler The wind kicks up snow dust and swirls it around my head as I walk. I ...