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Des Moines Police say the gunshots were fired outside the Knapp Center during Roosevelt High School's graduation ceremony on Saturday.

What makes the United States special? Not everyone agrees. A growing number of people think that it is ...

From the blog of Sheldon Kirshner at The Times of Israel

Roosevelt wanted the U.S. to wield a big stick in global affairs, the way European empires did.

The Democrats’ threat to pack the Supreme Court might not succeed as legislation, but it could work as intimidation as the Court takes up that could overturn Roe v. Wade.

The political thinkers of the Enlightenment, on whose ideas the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution are based, believed that no authority except force ultimately restrains nations, just as civil society’s implicit force restrains individuals. The superior power of a single state or a balance among great powers is as close as humankind can come to peace. If a beneficent state is dominant, the region or the world benefits. But in the contrary circumstance, a region or the world su...

The guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG-104), front, participates in the Rim of the Pacific 2018 exercise with (from front to back) the Chilean frigate Almirante Lynch, Royal Canadian Navy frigate HMCS Ottawa, French Navy frigate FS Prairial, U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bertholf (WMSL-750), the dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Charles Drew (T-AKE 10), and the Royal Canadian Navy commercial container ship NRU Asterix. U.S. Navy (Steven Robles)