People hoping to settle in the United States wait years for a green card to be legal residents. They play by the rules. These law-abiding newcomers must feel like idiots, watching what's happening on the southern border.Hundreds of thousands of Central American migrants are walking right in. ...

A man with a long-standing beef against the Annapolis, Maryland, newspaper Capital Gazette entered the paper's headquarters with a shotgun and murdered five staffers. It represents the deadliest attack on U.S. reporters in modern history.Before learning about the suspect's mental issues and his ...

Now that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has rocketed into the national spotlight as result of her stunning primary victory over incumbent Democrat Joe Crowley in New York's 14th Congressional District, what's the message for national politics?How did this young woman, who has never held or run for ...

Each week the Standard-Examiner hashes out issues large and small and takes a thumbs-up, thumbs-down stance. Here’s what we recommend this week for praise and criticism:<strong>THUMBS UP:</strong> Let’s give a round of applause to firefighters and forestry ...

My friends, this is a dark hour. Intolerance, cruelty, racism, misogyny, xenophobia and environmental destruction have been let loose across the land.Donald Trump controls the Republican Party, the Republican Party controls the House and Senate, and Trump may soon control the Supreme Court.But ...

South Dakota had a problem.More and more people were buying their clothes, electronics and even groceries online.Because some of those companies didn't have a physical location in our state, taxes weren't being collected on those goods and state government's coffers were getting squeezed.But it ...