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Local columns

Class action scams

WASHINGTON — Have you gotten a letter that says, “You may be entitled to compensation”? I get a bunch. One claimed my union (New York State forced me to join) probably cheated me on medical insurance. I didn’t think they did, but I filled out the forms. I got a check for $557. ...

Gitmo and politics

WASHINGTON — It is always dangerous to human freedom and due process when politics interferes with criminal prosecutions. Yet, present-day America is replete with tawdry examples of this. The recent exposures of the political machinations of the Chief Justice of the United States in the ...

Words and deeds

WASHINGTON — In1995 when Timothy McVeigh bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children and injuring hundreds more, President Bill Clinton blamed “promoters of paranoia,” which conservative talk radio hosts took as a slur against them. At the ...

Republicans trying new approach to abortion in the race for Congress

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the most contested races for control of the U.S. House, many Republican candidates are speaking up about women’s rights to abortion access and reproductive care in new and surprising ways, a deliberate shift for a GOP blindsided by some political ramifications of the ...

Almanac

By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Sept. 20, the 264th day of 2024. There are 102 days left in the year. Today in History Today is Wednesday, Sept. 20, the 263rd day of 2023. There are 102 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 20, 1973, in their ...

The fall of Donald Trump

WASHINGTON — It’s over for you, Donald Trump. America can’t go on like this -- don’t you feel it too? The breaking point came during the debate with Kamala Harris. After nine years, your dangerous duel with democracy is done. Something to do with Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating ...