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BBC Scotland has announced its star-studded festive line-up and viewers are in for a treat.

When criticized for soaring deficits, Regan replied, “I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself."

The surge in crime in Kansas and across the nation does not guarantee a GOP wave in Kansas in 2022.

In what is being called yet another accidental shooting of a child, a 6-year-old boy died Tuesday evening at his home in Jacksonvilles Dinsmore community. A 14-year-old boy has been arrested in the case and charged with culpable negligence for the improperly stored firearm that the child retrieved, the Sheriffs Office announced Wednesday afternoon. The Times-Union is not naming the teen due to his age. The victim was shot in the head about 7:30 p.m. in the home in 10000 block of Lowe Lane ...

Seniors in leadership have much to offer.

What do Queen Elizabeth (95), Janet Yellen (74), our president (78) and the pope (84) have in common?How about (Ohio governor) Mike DeWine (74), Jerry Brow

How about Mike DeWine (74), Jerry Brown (83) and Lamar Alexander (80)? They are all public men and women who are making major contributions in what once would have been thought their dotage. They are not only hanging on or “still going strong” but arguably doing their best work. The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg died at 87 but was working full tilt, fully employing her little gray cells, up until almost the very end. George Will is 80 and better than ever. Mark Shield...

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As a plot twist, the concept of reversing roles, or undergoing major and unexpected transformations, is hardly new. Tom Hanks’s breakthrough role was in  Big, the 1988 film in which he played a little boy who wished he could be an adult, only to wake up the next day in the body of a grown man (the role won Hanks an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor). The same theme was used in  13 Going on 30 with Jennifer Garner as the teenage girl who made the leap in age. Then of course there was...

McAuliffe rising again in Virginia Albert Hunt, opinion contributor © Greg Nash McAuliffe rising again in Virginia Mark Shields, a celebrated pundit, once called Virginia a "hotbed of social rest." For much of the 20th century the state was run by the segregationist Byrd machine, stifling economic, social and political change. Today the late Harry Byrd wouldnt recognize his state. Theres an economic dynamism; it was voted the best state for business in a 2019 CNBC survey, an...