My favorite moment from the opening day of the boys state basketball tournament took place before the games ever started. My second favorite moment happened after the first game at Target Center had ended. Both involved the Brainerd Warriors.

The father of Daphne Jordan submitted this story: My 14-year-old daughter, Daphne, and I went to a gun rally at the New Hampshire capitol in Concord on Saturday, Jan. 19.

All sorts of Catholics – the hurt and the whole, the progressive and the traditional – want to believe our eyes and trust all the positive signs and signals out of Rome in the week since Francis was chosen to succeed Benedict: “It’s like falling in love,” a friend said. “God help me,” ...

President Barack Obama and Congress have until March 27 to reach a budget agreement to avert a government shutdown. If they don't meet the deadline, federal agencies will halt many public services and send "non-excepted" workers home without pay.

WASHINGTON - Mariska Hargitay, better known as "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" Detective Olivia Benson, is the human intersection of life and art.

Both Republicans and Democrats say concern about the middle class is at the heart of the ongoing, vituperative debate over taxes, entitlements and fiscal discipline, but the political spat never seems to honestly address the gaping and growing class divide in the United States. As politicians in Was...

So it was a good meeting. House Republicans welcomed the chance for a frank exchange of ideas with President Barack Obama on Wednesday.

It's week two of the president's charm offensive, and already there is dissension in the ranks.

Fifty years ago this year in a speech to Congress, President John F. Kennedy proposed ".a national mental health program to assist in the inauguration of a wholly new emphasis and approach to care for the mentally ill.

President Barack Obama had a dinner date Wednesday night (March 6) with a dozen of his worst enemies, thus proving that the governmental stalemate in Washington, D.C., is driving him to unusual acts of political creativity - or desperation.