The longest-serving Senate leader is relinquishing his post in the next Congress and planning to use his influence in ways that could put him at odds with President-elect Donald J. …
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With critical races in Georgia and North Carolina just two years away, the party is soul-searching on a time crunch.
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Tony Campolo, Preacher Who Challenged Religious Right, Dies at 89
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesA mesmerizing speaker, he urged his fellow evangelicals to turn away from politics in favor of the values of charity and love espoused by Jesus.
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When we met them a dozen years ago, they were teenagers in trouble, playing for a basketball team that always lost. Did they find a way to win at life?
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Dartmouth Sorority and 2 Fraternity Members Are Charged After Student’s Drowning
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesThe 20-year-old student died this summer after attending an off-campus party. The fraternity members and sorority were charged with offenses related to providing alcohol to minors.
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Owners of Colorado Funeral Home Admit to Abusing Nearly 200 Corpses
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesJon and Carie Hallford pleaded guilty to corpse abuse after dozens of decaying bodies were found at their funeral home.
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Breaking with past practice, President-elect Donald J. Trump has not agreed to disclose the donors paying for his planning effort or to limit their contributions.
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After he spent eight years in the Senate as a moderate Democrat, his views took a leftward turn toward “new populism” in a failed 1976 shot at the presidency.
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Trump Picks Brooke Rollins, a Conservative Lawyer, to Lead Agriculture Dept.
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesMs. Rollins is the chief executive of the America First Policy Institute, a think tank created to promote President-elect Donald J. Trump’s agenda.
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On Blood-Soaked Ground, a ‘Prayer for the Future’ of a Divided Land
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesTwo weeks after the election, a gathering in Gettysburg commemorated Lincoln’s address, 272 words that have come to epitomize what it means to be presidential.