WASHINGTON – Doesn’t anybody here know how to work this thing? For 10 years, Republicans have waited for their chance to govern, and finally the voters handed them the car keys: unified GOP...

County officials took a first look Tuesday at a draft of regulations that provide an overview of privacy objectives, training requirements and general provisions of using drones the county purchased i...

WASHINGTON – One insistent question that will shape 2017 is whether we’re witnessing the gradual decay of the post-World War II international order, dominated by the economic and military power of the...

WASHINGTON – “Spare us the kissy-face.” It was June 2001 and I was covering President George W. Bush’s trip to Slovenia, where he had just met Vladimir Putin for the first time. I and other...

WASHINGTON – It may be wishful thinking, but it’s just possible that Vladimir Putin has done us a great favor. He has alerted us to the true threat of cyberwarfare in a way that — again, just possibly...

WASHINGTON — The fall of Aleppo just weeks before Barack Obama leaves office is a fitting stamp on his Middle East policy of retreat and withdrawal. The pitiable pictures from the devastated city show...

WASHINGTON – There is no mystery about Barack Obama’s greatest presidential achievement: He stopped the Great Recession from becoming a second Great Depression. True, he had plenty of help...

WASHINGTON — Democrats spent the first two decades of the post-Cold War era rather relaxed about Russian provocations and revanchism. President Obama famously mocked Mitt Romney in 2012 for suggesting...

WASHINGTON – Any reporter who’s written about the federal budget knows that there’s a surefire solution to every problem. It’s called “fraud, waste and abuse.” You want to end budget deficits? Just el...

The The department has requested about $43,000 for body cameras and $17,000 for the car cameras in the proposed 2017 city budget. Officers have been requesting body cameras for a while be...