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Don’t ruin holidays with distracted driving
December is National 3D Prevention Month, and it doesn’t have anything to with three-dimensional movies. This month, a…
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A powerful lesson as we remember President Bush
The scene at the U.S. Capitol on Monday as former President George H.W. Bush lay in state presented…
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China tried to strike at Trump – and missed the mark entirely
WASHINGTON – “When you strike at a king you must kill him,” Ralph Waldo Emerson once said. Well,…
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The stock market decline means … what?
WASHINGTON – The stock market giveth; the stock market taketh away. With Wednesday a federal holiday to honor…
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Senate takes right step on war powers
For too long, Congress has abdicated its constitutional obligations with respect to war powers. On Nov. 28, the…
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For just a few days, let’s be the nation Bush wanted us to be
WASHINGTON – President George H.W. Bush called on us to be a “kinder, gentler nation.” Sadly, we are…
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George H.W. Bush: Man of character
I first met the man who would become America’s 41st president in 1968. He was a Houston congressman…
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A life of reinvention defines Bush’s political legacy
WASHINGTON – At the beginning of his long and well-lived life, George Herbert Walker Bush, who in politics…
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Gene-editing claim opens Pandora’s box
It has long been a scientific dream: to inoculate people against terrible diseases before they’re born. Now a…
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Gene editing is here, and it’s an enormous threat.
WASHINGTON – A Chinese scientist’s claim to have created the first genetically edited babies has evoked widespread condemnation…
