WASHINGTON -- Something told me to get me over to East Potomac Park before Donald Trump destroyed it. Sure enough, I did, on a rainy Sunday morning, for a rally to protect the waterfront parkland from his axe. On the next weekend, he cut down 430 trees -- for a fancy golf course, of course. ...
The world misses Lindsey Graham, and never more than now as President Trump sides more decidedly with Vladimir Putin in his war against Ukraine and Europe. The late Senator might have been able to persuade the President to avoid this moral and strategic mistake. Mr. Trump announced late Friday that the U.S. will buy up to 4.8 million tons (nearly 36 million barrels) of Russian diesel fuel in stages. That includes an “immediate” supply of 300,000 tons, another 500,000 in November, and one million “immediately thereafter.” The delivery of another three million tons is “based ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Garrett Mitchell hit a go-ahead homer off reliever Tanner Scott in the sixth inning, Milwaukee's bullpen slammed the door late and the Brewers rallied past the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-4 on Thursday in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series to earn their first trip to the World Series since 1982. No. 9 hitter David Hamilton's two-out solo shot off reliever Edwin Díaz gave the Brewers a two-run cushion in the ninth. Hamilton had just four homers in the regular season. Shohei Ohtani's first home run of the postseason helped put the Dodgers ahead 4-0 early ...
For reasons that will baffle my many detractors, I am often asked for advice about being an opinion journalist. One of my standard responses is: You have to be willing to disappoint your biggest fans. What I mean is that if you start to see your job as telling fans what they want to hear, ...
We find it interesting that what seemed at first to be a pretty stringent shopping cart ordinance is likely to be watered down. Crystal Surdyk, city development director, said the concerns of advocates for the homeless have been heard, with the ordinance to be changed before approval to make sure people will not be losing all of their possessions with this ordinance. "There's already some things that we've seen that we want to change," Surdyk said. "I want to be really, really clear on where this is coming from, because I think there's been some concern and I want to address that ...
Americans lose billions of dollars every year to online scams, and the problem is getting worse. A recent report from the Consumer Federation of America found that Americans lost an estimated $148 billion to "online scams and crimes" in 2025, an increase of nearly 26% from the year ...
