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Hundreds of mourners — including President Biden and former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush — gathered at Washington National Cathedral yesterday to pay their resp […]

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Amid the clamor of a city of millions, New Yorkers have always been able to escape into a good book. 

“Even in the busiest of places, if you have a good book, you can ret […]

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Conservative commentator S.E. Cupp dissected Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe’s loss to Republican Glenn Youngkin in the Virginian gubernatorial election.

The host of C […]

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President Joe Biden announced yesterday that he will begin enforcing his mandate that private-sector workers be vaccinated against COVID-19 or be tested weekly starting Jan. 4, in a […]

New Jersey Democratic Governor Phil Murphy
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New Jersey Democratic Governor Phil Murphy narrowly won reelection yesterday, eking out a victory that spared Democrats the loss of a second […]

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The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article reviewing the plight of free tuition that was was cut from the […]

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Former Vice President Mike Pence pushed back against an audience member in Iowa City Monday who suggested he should have done more to help former President Donald Trump overturn the […]

Eric Adams, the Democratic candidate, celebrating his victory in the New York City mayor’s race. James Estrin/The New York Times

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Eric Adams, a former New York City police captain w […]

Glenn Youngkin
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Republicans claimed the governorship of Virginia for the first time in more than a decade on Wednesday, electing the businessman Glenn Youngkin and presenting their […]

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The sooner most cancers are discovered, the better the odds they can be successfully treated.

CBS reported yesterday that the Mayo Clinic has been conducting research on a test […]

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The Associated Press has an article (see below) this morning reviewing several of the key elections today.  It provides a roadmap on what might be an interesting evening of poll […]

President Biden at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland. (Adrian Dennis/Pool via Reuters)
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President Joe Biden apologized to the world yesterday in a speech at the […]

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Tomorrow, the most closely watched election contest will be in Virginia, as Democrats desperately try to hold on to power in a state that has provided some of the party’s biggest […]

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School districts across the county and especially those in cities with large diverse populations, are grappling more and more with gifted and talented programs that also are […]

Eric Schmidt Credit…Axel Dupeux for The New York Times
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New York Times columnist, Maureen Dowd, discusses a conversation she had with Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google and co-author […]

G20 summit in Rome (Ludovic Marin / Reuters)
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President Joe Biden and other world leaders gave their support for a global corporate minimum tax at yesterday’s  G-20 summit, a m […]

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After being hired as expert witnesses for groups opposing a restrictive voting law, three University of Florida academics were told they could not participate in the lawsuit against […]

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I have just finished reading Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy by Nathaniel Philbrick.  This book retraces the routes of Washington as he traveled t […]

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Joe Biden said yesterday during his visit with the Pope, that Francis  told him he was a “good Catholic” who can receive communion thereby widening a gulf between Francis and […]

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On CNN last night, Cooper called out media tycoon and Fox Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch for spreading inflammatory misinformation. The rebuke came after the trailer release of […]