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Opinion

Dickinson candidates offer statements

Columns

Editor’s note: Four incumbents serving on the Dickinson County Board of Commissioners will be challenged in the Aug. 6 Republican Party primary. In District 1, incumbent Joseph Stevens of Kingsford will be opposed in the Republican primary by Angela Olson. There are no Democratic ...

Netanyahu vows ‘total victory’ and denounces US opponents of war

Columns

WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged in a scathing speech to Congress on Wednesday to achieve "total victory" against Hamas and denounced American opponents of the war in Gaza as "idiots," taking a combative stance in a visit the Biden administration has hoped ...

Biden steps away and Harris steps on gas in 2024 race

Editorials

It doesn’t take a political scientist, professional pundit or student of politics at any level to know that Joe Biden must have agonized over the decision he made Sunday. The president, after months of pressure from high-ranking Democrats, stepped away from the 2024 race. He immediately ...

Officers left post to go look for Trump rally gunman before shooting

Columns

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two local law enforcement officers stationed in the complex of buildings where a gunman opened fire at former President Donald Trump left to go search for the man before the shooting, the head of Pennsylvania State Police said Tuesday, raising questions about whether a key ...

Biden withdrawal doesn’t mean Harris automatically succeeds

Columns

What is amusing and simultaneously contributes to the cynicism some feel about politics is how many Democrats claimed until recently that President Joe Biden was a different man in private than the mumbling, stumbling man everyone could hear and see in public. These include Vice President ...