President Obama has finally given the dreaded sequester some attention. The $1.2 trillion package of spending cuts - designed to be so punitive that neither party would ever allow them to phase in - is scheduled to take effect March 1.

Forty minutes early for an appointment in St. Paul on Thursday, I was looking for a bagel.

It had been three years since Harlan Holmvig's wife of 54 years passed away. In September, he found a beautifully crested gold frame in his rural Crosby home that he knew would be perfect to display a photo from their wedding day.

Our Twin Cities friends could learn a thing a two about civic involvement from the folks who live up north.

Newspapers may be struggling but there's no "woe-is-me" attitude evident in the actions of Marshall Helmberger, publisher of the Timberjay Newspapers of Tower.

The reasons politicians can't work together and make tough decisions are plentiful. Distrust, suspicion and paranoia are a few of the emotions that get in the way of progress.

WASHINGTON - Whatever happened to, “He’s a nice guy, he just isn’t up to the job”?...

Charlie Hebdo, a French satire magazine, published on Wednesday cartoons that nastily mock the prophet Muhammad, and European governments immediately feared more violence like the murder and arson at U.S.

BY CAL THOMAS Tribune Media Services "How could this happen?" asked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in response to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others.

BY AHMED SALAH Special to The Washington Post In the dawn of 2011, I and thousands of my fellow Egyptians took to the streets in the name of justice, equality and freedom.