• Column: How Trump could shock a divided nation back to life as collaborator-in-chief

    Column: How Trump could shock a divided nation back to life as collaborator-in-chief

    Nov 29, 2016 04:30 PM EDT

    ... Donald Trump sign in Beech Creek, West Virginia. AP Photo/Claire Galofaro During this unusual election cycle, the American people similarly asked their leaders to search for common interests and common good among urban and rural interests. Working-class women in blue states gave Trump double-digit margins. This imbalance ...

  • Pence's transition job could signal key role in White House

    Pence's transition job could signal key role in White House

    Nov 13, 2016 05:29 PM EDT

    ... the White House." Cheney clearly passed that test and became one of the most powerful vice presidents in recent memory, particularly during Bush's first term. Cheney not only ran Bush's vice presidential search team — eventually picking himself — he stocked the administration with veteran Republicans, many of whom he ...

  • Obama urges nation to 'forge unity' after bitter election

    Obama urges nation to 'forge unity' after bitter election

    Nov 11, 2016 05:15 PM EDT

    ... our great diversity, to maintain that strength and unity even when it is hard." He added that now that the election is over, "as we search for ways to come together, to reconnect with one another and with the principles that are more enduring than transitory politics, some of our ...

  • Janet Reno, first woman U.S. attorney general, dies at 78

    Janet Reno, first woman U.S. attorney general, dies at 78

    Nov 07, 2016 12:17 PM EDT

    ... Feb. 28, 1993, agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms made a surprise raid on the compound, trying to execute a search warrant. But during the raid gunfire erupted, killing four agents and six members of the religious sect. That led to a 51-day standoff ...

  • Your 2016 election survival guide

    Your 2016 election survival guide

    Nov 02, 2016 03:49 PM EDT

    ... friend. And neither Trump nor Clinton are big drinkers. What do you want for the country in the long run? Presidents affect not just short-term policy. They all shift the long-term direction of the country. Try to weigh emotion and reason. Yes, you may *hate,* *really hate,* a ...

  • Have Republicans lost the suburbs?

    Have Republicans lost the suburbs?

    Nov 01, 2016 08:55 PM EDT

    ... War II, suburban voters across the state -- like a majority of suburbanites nationwide -- overwhelmingly supported the party’s presidential nominee. Most were “Rockefeller Republicans,” a term that emerged in the 1960s for voters who were socially moderate and fiscally conservative. But in recent years, the region surrounding Denver has undergone ...

  • Do flu shots still work?

    Do flu shots still work?

    Sep 29, 2016 09:30 PM EDT

    ... something happened in that process? Or perhaps repeatedly vaccinating children with this vaccine is diminishing its effectiveness? For now, there’s no answer. While the search for one continues, the CDC has recommended US doctors not administer FluMist this flu season. https://vimeo.com/145200383 Questions over the impact of ...

  • The shortage of non-white professors is a self-perpetuating problem

    The shortage of non-white professors is a self-perpetuating problem

    Sep 12, 2016 05:41 PM EDT

    People in doctoral pipelines to university jobs are disproportionately white, making black educators hard to come by.

  • Fifteen years after 9/11, illnesses compound for first responders

    Fifteen years after 9/11, illnesses compound for first responders

    Sep 11, 2016 04:45 PM EDT

    Tens of thousands of people who worked at ground zero are still coping with the long-term health effects from the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history. 15 years after the attack, doctors and researchers continue to study the connection between the toxins at the site and physical ailments, along with complications from mental health issues...

  • People vote in churches and synagogues. Why not a mosque?

    People vote in churches and synagogues. Why not a mosque?

    Jul 14, 2016 04:24 PM EDT

    There are mosques in California, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Ohio that serve as polling places, one of them since at least 2004. But there may not be any Florida mosques that host voting.