Over 35 seasons working as a ranger in Glacier National Park, Kim Peach, 67, recalls only two incidents in which he responded to a report of a gun being fired — and both became his most memorable days on the job. So last year, when he spotted an advertisement featuring a smiling Tim Sheehy running […]Read More

During his campaign for a second term, former president Donald Trump has proposed a string of tax giveaways: He has suggested “no tax on tips,” an idea he said he heard from a waitress in Nevada. He has declared that no one, regardless of income, should have to pay taxes on Social Security benefits or […]Read More

BERLIN — President Joe Biden met with top world leaders here Friday at a tenuous moment for Ukraine and the Middle East, two ongoing and volatile wars that have marked Biden’s time in office and will define his foreign policy legacy. “Ukraine faces a tough winter. We must sustain our resolve, our effort and our […]Read More

During Donald Trump’s presidency, his D.C. hotel charged the U.S. Secret Service 300 percent or more above standard government rateson multiple occasions, and at times charged the government agency more than it did other patrons — including a Chinese business and members of a foreign royal family, according to a new report released Friday by […]Read More

When Bloomberg News editor in chief John Micklethwait raised the question of Donald Trump’s age during their conversation at the Economic Club of Chicago earlier this week, the former president got suddenly defensive. It was not the case, he said, that he had attacked President Joe Biden’s age, as Micklethwait suggested. Instead, he insisted, he […]Read More

In the early spring, former president Barack Obama joked to some allies that his blood pressure was finally going down — because he had stopped watching cable news. After spending much of the previous two years deeply concerned about the prospect of Donald Trump returning to the White House, Obama told people that his lifestyle […]Read More

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — The challenges both Democrats and Republicans are confronting in the presidential race were on vivid display here at astrip mall in Northampton County — which has voted for the winner of almost every election in the past 100 years. Liberal canvasser Sierra Marquardt, 18, wandered the parking lot with some worry while […]Read More

Federal statistics on drug misuse and overdosesare alarming and frightening, but there’s also notable progress within the context of bad news and still far too many deaths. First the bad news: ● Nearly 49 million people, some as young as 12, had a substance use disorder in the past year, according to 2023 data. ● […]Read More

NEW YORK — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump used his remarks at a Catholic charity banquet here on Thursday to skewer prominent Democrats, often in off-color terms. He mispronounced Vice President Kamala Harris’s name and said she had“no intelligence whatsoever.”He made fun of her husband, Doug Emhoff, for an affair he acknowledged during a previous […]Read More