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A “Muslims Get Out” sign in front of a small-town dining spot in southern Minnesota will remain, the owner said Tuesday, despite the business being targeted by what he said was hate-inspired vandalism. Dan Ruedinger said he put up the message this week in front of Treats Family Restaurant and Ice Cream Parlor in Lonsdale […]

In the last few weeks, we’ve allowed ourselves to indulge in the quips and quibbles of the presidential race, obsessing over things like whether Hillary Clinton lied about her health or whether Donald Trump told the truth about his role in the birther movement. It’s a shame that it took a series of terrorist attacks

WASHINGTON — The grandchildren of Dwight D. Eisenhower have reached an agreement with the architect of a long-planned memorial to the former president and supreme allied commander in Washington, ending an impasse over the project’s design. The family accepted the design by architect Frank Gehry after former Secretary of State James Baker brokered a compromise.

The filters are off this election season. And honestly, a lot of the talk is terrible to hear. Hate speech feels commonplace at rallies. And many critics of presidential candidate Donald Trump say his blunt — some would use worse adjectives — talk is to blame. But is his speech actually worse than usual? It’s

Philadelphia, where nearly 80 percent of the registered voters are Democrats, should be a bastion of support for that party’s presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton. It is also a majority-minority city, with African Americans making up 44 percent of the population and Hispanics another 14 percent—and Clinton leads by a wide margin among both ethnic groups

It is clear that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s children never really knew their father. Perhaps it is because they were so young when an assassin’s bullet took him away. How could we forget the iconic picture of little Bernice at the funeral, with her pigtails and white petticoat dress, and her head resting

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton made a direct appeal to young voters to get “off the sidelines” and behind her candidacy with an unusually personal address Monday, conceding she has to overcome doubts that they — and others — still harbor toward her even as they also reject her Republican opponent. Speaking to 300 students at

A federal judge blasted the Obama administration for slow-walking the release of some of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails, saying in court Monday that the government appears to be withholding information from voters ahead of the election. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said the State Department in not “being all that cooperative,” and

SCRANTON, Pa. — After some good-natured banter between Kelly Ripa and Neil Patrick Harris on their morning show, there was Hillary Clinton suddenly on screen, with a dark message of looming danger. During a break in Thursday morning’s “Live with Kelly” show, the Clinton ad painted Donald Trump as a risk to all things America