Let’s play a game. Assume for a minute Mike Bloomberg lost and he’s packing up his office after two terms. What would we say about his legacy? We’d say he made remarkable gains fighting crime and his NYPD helped prevent terror attacks. Some of his public-health initiatives, especially against smoking, …

Writing in Sunday’s Washington Post, former New York Times editor Howell Raines accuses Fox News of sabotaging Obamacare and waging a jihad against the Obama administration. Raines writes: “Why haven’t America’s old-school news organizations blown the whistle on [Fox News for conducting] a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration — …

During this health care reform debate, how many times have you heard that health care is a right? That’s been one of the main selling points — that we’re the greatest country in the world, and the only one where every citizen isn’t entitled to health care? How can that …

State-run disaster relief funds that funneled millions in charitable donations to tornado- and flood-stricken Kentucky can serve as models for quickly getting aid to storm victims, Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday in response to an auditor’s review of the programs. The Democratic governor portrayed the findings as a vindication of …

Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andy McCarthy joined “America’s Newsroom” to react to former White House press secretary Jen Psaki insisting that Hunter Biden should stop talking in public. The MSNBC host said Sunday that the president’s son making public remarks on Capitol Hill last week was “not helpful to anyone” …

A federal appeals court handed the state of Texas a win on Tuesday when it temporarily blocked the Biden administration from removing razor wire barriers placed at the border by Texas authorities. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the government is barred during the appeal from “damaging, destroying, …

The gist of President Obama’s press conference on Wednesday was that he’s proud of his Iran agreement. And he may well be right that it’s a good deal. Not being a nuclear physicist, I don’t have any frame of reference to judge whether it blocks Iran’s path to the bomb. …

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota will vault past Illinois, Michigan and South Dakota this week to gain the highest minimum wage in the Midwestern region at $9 an hour. The dollar-per-hour bump taking effect Saturday for some 288,000 of Minnesota’s lowest-paid workers is the second of a three-stage increase adopted …

MADRID – A Spanish mayor says a man has died after being charged down and gored by a bull that was being herded into a northern village as part of annual celebrations to honor its patron saint. Jesus Garcia Pastor said the 66-year-old man had wandered into an area of …

MADRID – Crews on Monday began digging up an unmarked grave believed to be holding victims of the Spanish Civil War, in the country’s first such court-ordered exhumation. The Association for the Recovery of Historic Memory said volunteers were digging up part of a cemetery in the northwestern town of …