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This image from CCTV video released by Saudi Arabia's Media Ministry shows passengers taking cover as flames and smoke fill part of King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, during what authorities described as a strike at the airport on Oct. 10, 2026. (Saudi Media Ministry via AP)

Daniel DePetris: Resumption of war between Houthis and Saudis is bad timing for Donald Trump

By Daniel DePetris

October 12, 2026 at 1:27 p.m.

The attacks in Saudi Arabia come when Donald Trump is in a standoff over the...

Attorneys for Christa Pike hold a news conference after a judge ruled the Tennessee Department of Corrections must preserve all evidence related to the failed execution of Pike, on Oct. 7, 2026, in Nashville, Tennessee. (George Walker IV/AP)

Clarence Page: A botched execution shakes our death penalty presumptions

By Clarence Page

October 12, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

The botched execution of Christa Pike offers a gross illustration of the cruelty that capital...

Chicago school board president candidates Jessica Biggs, Hilario Dominguez and Victor Henderson participate in a forum at the Copernicus Center on Sept. 29, 2026. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

David Greising: The race for Chicago school board president is about ideas — and character

By David Greising

October 10, 2026 at 10:01 a.m.

It will take savvy strategic thinking, backed by the character needed for leadership, to make...

U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney meets with supporters in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on Aug. 5, 2022, ahead of the primary which she lost to Trump-supported attorney Harriet Hageman.

Clarence Page: Liz Cheney’s GOP hasn’t lost its way, just changed its ways.

By Clarence Page

August 19, 2022 at 4:26 p.m.

When U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney told an interviewer in the closing days of her reelection...

Getting a rental car at Los Angeles International Airport can be challenging when you don't have your driver's license.

Column: How my epic vacation fails became a motto for this coming school year

By baiduhai

August 19, 2022 at 12:22 p.m.

I should probably have transportation figured out by now. It's been a part of my...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks as she offers an amendment as the House Rules Committee prepared the bipartisan Senate gun bill for the House floor at the U.S. Capitol on June 24, 2022.

Clarence Page: ‘Defund the FBI’? Is Marjorie Taylor Greene serious?

By Clarence Page

August 16, 2022 at 6:07 p.m.

Yes, I had to polish my eyeglasses and put them back on for a second...

As of October 2020, 30 states and Washington, D.C., required public schools to teach some form of sex education, according to National Conference of State Legislatures data.

Column: With abortion bans spreading, now would be a great time to ramp up comprehensive sex education

By Heidi Stevens

June 7, 2024 at 11:51 a.m.

With abortion banned or severely limited in a growing number of states, we'd be wise...

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit held at the Tampa Convention Center on July 23, 2022, in Tampa, Florida.

Clarence Page: MAGA may not be fascist, but increasingly it rhymes

By Clarence Page

July 29, 2022 at 5:39 p.m.

As much as I call myself a zealot for free speech, I also find it...

Matt Gaetz speaks during the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit at the Tampa Convention Center on July 23, 2022, in Tampa, Florida.

Column: Teen used Matt Gaetz insult to raise funds for abortions — and buried a shopworn tactic in the process

By Heidi Stevens

June 7, 2024 at 11:51 a.m.

In Gloria Steinem's 2015 memoir, "My Life on the Road," she writes about Florynce Kennedy,...

A person walks outside the Cook County Jail processing center at 27th Street and California Avenue in Chicago on July 21, 2022. A year earlier, on July 10, local rapper Londre "KTS Dre" Sylvester was shot dozens of times by gunmen shortly after his release from the jail.

Will Lee: Death of rapper shot dozens of times shows the cost of online fame that comes from beefs with rivals

By William Lee

July 30, 2022 at 6:30 p.m.

Walking out of Cook County Jail's intake center that drizzly Saturday night a year ago,...

Republican gubernatorial nominee Darren Bailey celebrates with supporters on primary night on June 28, 2022, at Thelma Keller Convention Center in Effingham, Illinois.

Clarence Page: Why almost all the GOP candidates seem to sound like Tucker Carlson

By Clarence Page

July 26, 2022 at 6:17 p.m.

At a time that should be a moment of glory for Republicans, much of the...

Sen. Josh Hawley, right, escaping the rioters, is shown on July 21, 2022, at the eighth public hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Clarence Page: Jan. 6 hearings make great TV, but will it matter?

By Clarence Page

July 22, 2022 at 4:32 p.m.

In the long-running talkfest known as the Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6, 2021,...

Joseph Fons holds a Pride Flag in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building after the court ruled that LGBTQ people cannot be disciplined or fired based on their sexual orientation in Washington, D.C., June 15, 2020.

Column: The world is on fire. Why are we debating people’s right to marry who they love?

By Heidi Stevens

June 7, 2024 at 11:51 a.m.

I thought, naively it turns out, we might get to a point in my lifetime...

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