WASHINGTON — In April of this year, the FBI began an investigation to determine who was using illegal software to spy from within the United States on persons in Mexico. The software was illegal because its Israeli manufacturer, a company called NSO, had previously crafted other software ...

By The Associated Press Today in History Today is Saturday, Aug. 12, the 224th day of 2023. There are 141 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Aug. 12, 1953, the Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its first hydrogen bomb. On this date: In 1867, President ...

WASHINGTON — Fitch Ratings just downgraded the U.S. government’s credit rating due in part to Congress’s erosion in governance. Indeed, year after year, we see the same political theater unfold: last-minute deals, deficits and, all too often, the passage of gigantic omnibus spending bills ...

WASHINGTON -- The truth is getting lost already, as always when former President Donald Trump enters the room -- or a courthouse. Since the wrong crowd came to town on Jan. 6, 2021, our city longed for a moment of truth after the Trump mob stormed the Capitol. A Thursday on an August ...

By The Associated Press Today in History Today is Friday, Aug. 11, the 223rd day of 2023. There are 142 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Aug. 11, 1997, President Bill Clinton made the first use of the historic line-item veto, rejecting three items in spending and ...

WASHINGTON — One of my favorite movies is “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The story questions what local banker George Bailey’s hometown would have been like had he never lived Well, let’s imagine what America would be like if we had adopted an age-limit constitutional amendment in ...