Amid President Trump's war on American mainstream journalism as "fake news," an offended reader of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md., shot and killed five editorial workers in its newsroom Thursday, with no indication that anything Trump had said had anything to do with the tragedy.The ...

No agency or department of the U.S. government has unlimited power, but enforcing and maintaining the limits on power is often easier said than done.One example of this is the fight between House Republicans and top officials at the FBI and Department of Justice over documents that Congress has ...

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Yes, Utah County is full of blue blood.But in the last 10 years, some of that spirit has transferred as Utah Valley University transformed from a state college to the now-largest university in Utah.The driving force behind this surging growth and school spirit? Matthew Holland.As we approach ...

How nice it would be to believe that President Donald Trump’s plan to reorganize the federal government will result in more efficiency and less bureaucratic stupidity. Most Americans have had enough exposure to federal agencies to believe an improvement has occurred when they see it, ...

If Trump's supporters are truly "a basket of deplorables ... racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic" and "irredeemable," as Hillary Clinton described them to an LGBT crowd, is not shunning and shaming the proper way to deal with them?So a growing slice of the American left has ...