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From practical guides and the latest research to heartfelt memoirs, these breast cancer books will inform and inspire you.

MSNBC’s Alex Witt told a whopper on Sunday’s Weekends with Alex Witt while chatting with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.). The senator was on to discuss the gun control bill that he and Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa) have authored. Manchin used the on-air opportunity to beg viewers and fellow senators to support his bill, and he found at least one willing supporter in the host who was interviewing him. At the end of the interview, Witt told him, “I don't often weigh in with my personal opinion, but...

There’s a wide variety of sweeteners available to home cooks and bakers, including dry sugars and syrups, and natural products and those that are less so. It can be a

To a skeptic, the most remarkable aspect of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign has been how so flexible a politician can represent so dogmatic a party. Contemporary Republicanism is ideological to its core. Everybody who watched the GOP primary debates between Mitt and the Seven Dwarves (or were there nine? I forget) understands that there’s a…

Kate Pickert, a 1997 graduate of South Jefferson Central School District, Adams, and a Watertown Daily Times reporter from 2001-02, has penned a guest essay in the June 16 edition

New York Times: Once-deadly diseases are now survivable, writes Kate Pickert.

After a recent announcement that I have decided to retire this column and leave The Washington Post, a Vanity Fair reporter asked me by e-mail about the media’s performance in covering threats to demo...

Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan spent her last column on Sunday advising journalists about the “dangers ahead” in covering the 2024 election.

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If someone put you in charge of remaking your department or inventing a new one, what would stay and what would go?