We can almost see the headline now: “Obama sides with gang.” Which may, ultimately, prove true. It’s anybody’s guess which (if any) deficit-reduction plan will make its way to the president, but the ...

During the sleep-deprived, hazy fog called maternity leave, I rarely gave much thought to my new identity as a mother. I spent four months in a secluded, suspended reality, a continuous loop of ...

It was only a T-shirt, but it wasn't. The artists Dana Owens and Chip Fasciana apologized, late last week, for causing offense with their design for a T-shirt emblazoned with the term "Ghetto Chopper" ...

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump has been accused of dishonesty, spreading falsehoods, misrepresenting facts, distorting news, passing on inaccuracies and being loose with the truth. But does he lie?

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I'll always be grateful to the good folks at the Minneapolis Star Tribune. In 1971 they plucked me off the canning line at a 7-Up bottling plant, put me in front of a typewriter and started paying me ...

To Christians, the coming of God as a baby in a Bethlehem manger, and the promised Second Coming to establish his kingdom, are evangel -- the Gospel, or good news. From “evangel” comes the word ...

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Former President Barack Obama said in an interview aired Wednesday that socialism remains a “loaded” word for Democrats, before criticizing his own party for giving Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, ...

Nearly 40 states have laws allowing doctors to say "sorry" to patients for bad diagnoses, procedures and outcomes. Those laws prohibit using the apology as evidence in a malpractice lawsuit. But ...

Not long after NPR's first stories about the Haiti earthquake started appearing, listeners complained about hearing the word "looting." "The use of the term 'looting' for people desperate to survive ...