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President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference with Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg (not pictured) in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 10, 2018.

Trump told more than 2,000 lies in the past year. And so did I.

May 31, 2019 at 4:24 p.m.

Last year I resolved to do something I almost never do. I lied. A lot. It all began when I informed President Donald Trump via Twitter that he finished 46,789th...

Richie Compton, left, and Erik Winger kneel at a makeshift memorial for the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting outside of the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on June 13, 2016.

31 words that gave me a renewed sense of purpose in these challenging times

May 11, 2019 at 3:25 a.m.

I was walking to our local post office one morning a couple of years ago when I passed an elementary school in the small Illinois town where I live. It...

School children stretch to rub the nose of Abraham Lincoln, for good luck as a tradition, during ceremonies honoring Lincoln in celebration of his birthday at the Tomb of President Lincoln Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, in Springfield, Ill.

At Lincoln’s tomb, words for a new generation

May 11, 2019 at 3:22 a.m.

Forty-five years have passed since I last touched Abraham Lincoln's nose. Not the real nose, of course, but the one on the bust that guards the entrance to Lincoln's tomb...

A British `witch,’ the air war, a Bataan survivor

August 21, 2021 at 4:32 p.m.

The Strange Case of Hellish Nell: The Story of Helen Duncan and the Witch Trial of World War II By Nina Shandler Da Capo, 289 pages, $25 Blitz: The Story...

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