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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II cuts a cake to celebrate the start of the Platinum Jubilee, at Sandringham House, her Norfolk residence, in Sandringham, England, Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022. The Queen has hosted a reception for members of the local community and volunteer groups at Sandringham House on the eve of Accession Day, the seventieth anniversary of her reign. (Joe Giddens/Pool Photo via AP)

Column: Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee is an important national, and international, event

March 10, 2022 at 7:01 a.m.

Last month, Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom celebrated her seventieth year on the throne. She is the first monarch of the nation to serve this long. For the rest...

FILE - In this image made from video released by the Russian Presidential Press Service, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressees the nation in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 24, 2022. Putin is raising fears that he has become more reckless, more committed to restoring the USSR, perhaps more likely to set off a world-altering war. There's no way to determine from a distance whether the Russian president is becoming unstable or if he is simply preying on the West's fears. (Russian Presidential Press Service via AP)

Column: Putin’s costly miscalculation and desperate misadventure

March 2, 2022 at 7:12 a.m.

President Vladimir Putin of Russia has drastically miscalculated in launching a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine. In effect, he has returned combat and killing to a region largely free of...

Protesters give high fives and wave to several truckers driving away as police work to clear the streets in front of Parliament Hill to put an end to a protest, which started in opposition to mandatory COVID-19 vaccine mandates and grew into a broader anti-government demonstration and occupation, in Ottawa, Ontario, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)

Column: Today’s misleading headline — Truckers threaten Canada-U.S. relationship

February 23, 2022 at 9:26 a.m.

British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle greatly raised the prestige of the lowly detective story with his fictional alter ego Sherlock Holmes. One of Holmes' most brilliant insights concerned something...

President Barack Obama awards the 2010 Medal of Freedom to Warren Buffett during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Column: History shows throwing money at the problem is not the way to control inflation

February 15, 2022 at 3:23 p.m.

In the 1980s, investment firm E.F. Hutton sponsored commercials featuring variations on a crowded room — an airport, a cocktail reception, a restaurant. When one person remarks to another that,...

Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the Florida chapter of the Federalist Society's annual meeting at Disney's Yacht Club resort in Walt Disney World on Feb. 4, 2022, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Pence directly rebutted Donald Trump's false claims that Pence somehow could have overturned the results of the 2020 election, saying that the former president was simply "wrong." (Stephen M. Dowell/Lake Buena Vista Sentinel via AP)

Column: Pence’s role in confirming results puts renewed focus on Electoral College

February 9, 2022 at 7:45 a.m.

"President Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election." Former Vice President Mike Pence was clear, calm and accurate in this statement Feb. 4 while addressing the...

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during his re-nominations hearing before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via AP)

Column: Federal Reserve must remember the past as it moves forward

February 2, 2022 at 7:31 a.m.

"I think there's quite a bit of room to raise interest rates without threatening the labor market." Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's statement on Jan. 26, following the latest meeting of...

FILE - A convoy of Russian armored vehicles moves along a highway in Crimea, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. Russia has concentrated an estimated 100,000 troops with tanks and other heavy weapons near Ukraine in what the West fears could be a prelude to an invasion. Germany's refusal to join other NATO members in supplying Ukraine with weapons has frustrated allies and prompted some to question Berlin's resolve in standing up to Russia. (AP Photo, File)

Column: Kremlin aggression recalls Cold War, and challenges NATO

January 25, 2022 at 2:51 p.m.

The threat of Russian military invasion of the remainder of Ukraine represents the most serious military crisis and challenge in Europe since the Balkan wars of the 1990s. The ongoing...

FILE - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, poses with South Korean President Moon Jae-in for a photo inside the Peace House at the border village of Panmunjom in Demilitarized Zone, South Korea on April 27, 2018. (Korea Summit Press Pool via AP, File)

Column: North Korea continues to be a growing threat while South Korea grows its economy

January 19, 2022 at 6:24 a.m.

North Korea is once again rattling the cage. Over several weeks, the regime has carried out four ballistic missile tests, the most recent on Jan. 17. Pyongyang describes them as...

This photo provided by NASA, the James Webb Space Telescope is separated in space on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope soared from French Guiana on South America's northeastern coast, riding a European Ariane rocket into the Christmas morning sky. The $10 billion infrared observatory is intended as the successor to the aging Hubble Space Telescope. (NASA via AP)

Column: New telescope allows us to explore distant space, and ourselves

January 12, 2022 at 7:11 a.m.

"Hubble on steroids!" That is how actively involved astronomy professor Garth Illingworth of the University of California describes the new James Webb Telescope, launched on Dec. 25, 2021. On Jan....

FILE - In this 1918 photo made available by the Library of Congress, volunteer nurses from the American Red Cross tend to influenza patients in the Oakland Municipal Auditorium, used as a temporary hospital. (Edward A. "Doc" Rogers/Library of Congress via AP, File)

Column: Fear remains an infectious public menace to our civilization

January 5, 2022 at 7:43 a.m.

COVID-19 scare stories continue, sensationally spurred by media, even as we collectively reopen and return to a more normal existence. To provide context, TV talking heads often mention the devastating...

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