Before retiring, a recent Manhattan district attorney said he would not prosecute people who jump subway turnstiles to avoid paying fares because this is a crime of poverty. A retired New York police chief responded with a challenge: Find a turnstile jumper who does not possess a smartphone. ...

It just so happens that s pring hit on Election Day in Moscow. Massive mounds of piled-up snow lining the sidewalks, and any patches of ice that managed to dodge the permanent wintertime layer of rock salt, morphed into puddles as the temperature jumped from a windy —15C up to 6C in what ...

House Republicans hammered President Biden this week for his catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, and rightly so — it was one of the worst foreign policy calamities in American history. But if Republicans cut off U.S. military aid to Ukraine, they will precipitate an equally disastrous ...

The visit by Vice President Kamala Harris to a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in St. Paul, the first ever visit by a president or vice president to an abortion clinic, is getting the considerable attention it deserves. When America’s vice president visits and pays homage to the ...

Last week’s Super Tuesday results ensured the renominations of former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, barring some unanticipated adverse health events. So, who’s going to win in November? Polls give us clues. Trump continues to have the small but persistent lead in public ...

I still have dry flower stalks and leaf litter across my yard. The weather is warming with the start of spring and it has me itching to get out in the garden. I’ve watched as some of my neighbors raked and bagged leftover leaves, but I’m resisting. I might be ready, but the Earth is not. ...