Donald Trump wasn’t on stage at the GOP debate on Wednesday, though he seemed to occupy Ron DeSantis’s mind. That would explain the Florida Governor’s punt on reforming entitlements that ruled out even gradually raising…

When Joe Biden meets Xi Jinping in San Francisco next week, the stakes will be high. Fighting in the Middle East threatens to become another theatre for great-power rivalry, with America backing Israel, and China…

We were unaware until very recently that practicing journalism too “persistently” is against the law. At least that’s the case in Calumet City, Illinois, where Daily Southtown reporter Hank Sanders was cited multiple times for…

A countywide referendum on whether to renovate the Allen County courthouse likely drew more voters to the polls Tuesday than in a typical off-year election. An estimated 2,510 voters — or about 29% of Allen…

Last week, the Federal Reserve did the right thing by leaving well enough alone, keeping the benchmark interest rate at about 5.4%. With the acute pressure that the board and Chair Jay Powell in particular…

There is increasingly urgent talk of a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas, as people all over the world understandably recoil at the loss of civilian life from Israeli airstrikes, such as those…

As a general, Dwight D. Eisenhower led Allied troops to victory over Adolf Hitler’s racist and genocidal regime. As president, he enforced the Supreme Court’s order to desegregate U.S. schools by ordering troops to Arkansas…

Kansas legislators studying laws on suspending a driver’s license would do well to offer a way for people who lose a license to drive for necessary cause, including work, school and medical care. Kansas laws…

The ink had barely dried before Tuesday’s news of the closure of Fort Scott’s emergency room was spun into political fodder. Gov. Laura Kelly used it as another example that Kansas should expand Medicaid eligibility,…

Just to be clear, the Lewiston, Maine, police arrived at the scene within 90 seconds of receiving a call for help. At 6:56 p.m. Wednesday, the initial 911 call was placed from Just-In-Time Recreation. At…