John Wall had a theory about foul-baiting NBA stars. The former Washington Wizards point guard, who played the game with speed and force rather than shiftiness and guile, thought the playoffs were ...

Voting closes at midnight Sunday. The winner will be announced with the next poll and in next Wednesday’s paper.

The meme comes from a 1994 episode in the show’s fifth season, where Homer awkwardly backs into a hedge after being brushed off by neighbor Ned Flanders. Those three seconds of social discomfort ...

George W. Bush took over the presidency in January 2001 and squandered the surplus with tax cuts and dramatically higher spending. He also oversaw the reckless deregulation that led to the financial ...

According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget — Washington’s saddest advocacy group — if you take seriously the permanence that the Republicans are actually seeking, the Big Budget Bomb ...

It was a surprising promise, not only because of Trump’s long history of anti-immigration rhetoric and policy but also because, well, it made sense. Foreign students attend college in the U.S. on ...

Of course, raising the early retirement will not by itself close the entire Social Security funding gap. If it were increased and then indexed to life expectancy (and the normal retirement age was as ...

The latest data from the Yale Budget Lab reveals that tariff policies have driven consumer prices up by 2.9 percent in the short term. In comparison, the Penn Wharton Budget Model projects a ...

Despite a ninth-inning comeback, the Everett AquaSox fell to the Spokane Indians 4-3 in the six-game series opener at Funko Field in front of 2,580 fans. Spokane (24-22, Northwest League) powered its ...

Verdant Health Commission started a $9-million interior and exterior renovation project of the medical building formerly ...

In the wee hours of Thursday morning, House Republicans pushed through President Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill,” a proposal that dramatically cuts Medicaid, in part by imposing strict work requirements ...

In an interview about immigration on NPR last month, Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, stated that, of an estimated 21 million illegal aliens, (only) 168,000 are convicted felons.