Politics
By By ALI SWENSON Associated Press 
November 22, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent a recent Wednesday showered in praise from the vice president and health technology CEOs at a glitzy “Make America Healthy Again” event in Washington, desig...
Presidents can no longer be trusted with pardons
Politics
November 22, 2025
O urs is a system of “checks and balances.” The president can do this or that, but the courts and Congress can put a stop to it (depending on the circumstances and relevant rules). When the courts rul...
News, Politics
November 21, 2025
NO ONE LIKES IT WHEN A SCHOOL is closed. It’s disruptive for students and sometimes for entire communities. Yet sometimes, closing a school is unavoidable and, in the long run, can be the right thing ...
A very big deal
Politics
November 21, 2025
If there was an award for courage and honor in politics, it should go to a stalwart band of Republicans in the Indiana state Senate who have resisted enormous pressure from President Trump and rejecte...
Politics
Letter to the Editor
November 21, 2025
To the Editor: As an Elizabeth Forward taxpayer, I feel like I’m watching our community write its own obituary — not for buildings, but for its financial future. In three years, approximately 80–85% o...
Politics
$ 1M stolen, no jail time is a betrayal of justice — and police officers
November 20, 2025
SOMETIMES WHEN POLICE officers are accused of misconduct, it can be difficult to break through the wall of support — or at the very least, the wall of silence — that surrounds them. To a degree, that’...
Jeffrey Epstein files cover-up in disarray
Politics
November 20, 2025
This week, President Trump’s uncanny political instincts resulted in a near-unanimous congressional resolution forcing his administration, against its collective will, to release the Epstein files. Th...
Politics
By By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press 
November 20, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed a bill to compel the Justice Department to make public its case files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a potentially far-reaching deve...
Epstein’s resentment toward Donald Trump
Politics
November 19, 2025
There’s no doubt Jeffrey Epstein thought he was a very, very smart guy. “He always thought he was the smartest person in the room,” said one associate. Another said Epstein “thought he was smarter tha...
Politics
November 19, 2025
EVERY NOVEMBER, SCHOOLS and communities across the country come together to celebrate American Education Week, which started Monday and continues through Friday. It is a time to honor the people who m...
Politics
By By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press 
November 19, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Both the House and Senate acted decisively Tuesday to pass a bill to force the Justice Department to publicly release its files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a remar...
Trump says he will sell F-35s to Saudi Arabia on eve of crown prince’s visit
Politics, World News
November 18, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he will sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia despite some concern within the administration that such a sale could lead to China gaining access t...
Politics
O.J. Simpson’s estate accepts $58M claim from
November 18, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Monday that he hopes to meet with President Donald Trump to find ways the political polar opposites can work together on the central focus...
Politics
November 18, 2025
THE STATE BUDGET IS PASSED. It’s been signed by the governor. Four months of confusion and belt-tightening is over. But does that mean a handle turns and state funding starts to pour toward all of the...
Politics
Life is short — be careful how you live it
November 18, 2025
To the Editor: Complete governmental control is coming more quickly than we realize. Donald Trump, in his future dictatorial role, is speeding down the road to dictatorship. Since Trump began his late...
Confronting anti-Ellis Island immigration
Politics
November 18, 2025
Between 1892 and 1954, approximately 12 million immigrants arrived at the now-iconic Ellis Island to enter the U.S. — or nearly 200,000 legal entries per year. All were registered, documented, and giv...
Building on the declaration
Politics
November 17, 2025
WASHINGTON — In the next several days, Simon & Schuster will bring forth a little book, 7 inches tall and 5 inches wide, that should shake the country. It is called “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written...
Politics
By By CHRIS MEGERIAN AND JEFFAMY Associated Press 
November 17, 2025
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — When President Donald Trump addressed Congress earlier this year, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was there holding an American flag and wearing a red baseball cap that said “...