Give your Thanksgiving leftovers the grilled cheese treatment
What’s your post-Thanksgiving Day plan? In years past, it might have included going to sleep early to wake up well...
Border Patrol’s Charlotte sting reaches into country clubs, upscale shops
CHARLOTTE — The gourmet pasta shop surrounded by million-dollar Colonials might not be the most obvious spot for clues about...
These ducks are local celebrities and walk the red carpet daily
Every morning at 10:30, Kenon Walker rolls out a red carpet across the hotel lobby in preparation for the first...
The signs of educational decline are now impossible to ignore
Some years ago, during a dinner party, our smoke detector started beeping while we were broiling steaks. I dashed into...
With great presidential power comes great presidential blame
A year after his election to a second term in office, Donald Trump has concentrated more of the federal government’s...
Azzi Fudd was a can’t-miss basketball star. Then she had to prove it again.
As far as basketball parents go, Tim and Katie Fudd have played, watched and analyzed as much as any others,...
Privatize air traffic control
Americans flying home for Thanksgiving are no doubt relieved the government shutdown ended when it did. Still, the chaos at...
It’s time to end the filibuster
Scott Bessent is U.S. treasury secretary. The American people are just now emerging from the longest and most devastating government...
Pit bulls welcomed back to this Maryland county after 29-year ban
Prince George’s County Council Chairman Edward P. Burroughs III (D-District 8) vowed he wouldn’t get another dog again after the...
More states are offering cheap health plans to farmers, with a catch
For years, Indiana farmer Corina Brant found herself squeezed on health care. Unable to qualify for Affordable Care Act subsidies,...
The case of a felon who paid lobbyists nearly $1 million to seek a Trump pardon
In April, Alina Habba, the U.S. attorney for New Jersey, extolled her office’s role in the sentencing of a former...
A Hiroshima survivor reflects as Trump considers unleashing a new nuclear age
HIROSHIMA, Japan — Koko Kondo was returning from the Vatican, where she had sat beside Pope Leo XIV and delivered...
Geese is the best new band you’re sick of hearing good things about
There are no rules in rock-and-roll, except for maybe these two: It is good for bands to be ambitious, and...
Our biggest airport pet peeves
We love a good trip. But do we love, specifically, the airport portion of that trip? There are exceptions, but...
The surprising issue driving a wedge between Trump and his MAGA base
SAN FRANCISCO — President Donald Trump faces an unexpected rift in the MAGA movement as Republican officials from statehouses to...
