Presidents deserve wide latitude in selecting members of their Cabinet. But at the same time, the Senate must take its advice and consent role seriously if the balance of power is to be preserved.

Today at 2:13 a.m. This is what happens when you don't vet nominees.

Ripper: Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure grain alcohol?

The Arkansas-Little Rock men's basketball team is in the midst of a six-game road stretch, but Coach Darrell Walker will feel at home when his Trojans take on the University of Arkansas at 8 p.m. on ...

Let's start from scratch. Say you are concerned the federal government is prone to waste, fraud and abuse and needs to be kept under close watch. You assume that because it's the government and not a ...

The New York Times, which I've read since I was young, is not the same gray lady of yesteryear. It's not even the paper that it was when Barack Obama was president. The Times today has an ...

As a young boy, I loved trains. My parents bought me a Lionel toy set one year for Christmas. Mine was a freight train pulled by a steam locomotive, not the coveted modern passenger set featuring the ...

Shohei Ohtani won his third Most Valuable Player Award and first in the National League, and Aaron Judge earned his second American League honor on Thursday.

Football coaches who prefer to use a run-oriented offensive attack relish that type of player they can trust to carry the ball 30-35 times if needed -- until that certain player gets hurt and is ...

He's right, of course. But it's only going to get harder to convince everyone else of that if they keep putting up pinball scores the way they have through 10 games this season.

Australia's communications minister introduced a world-first law into Parliament on Thursday that would ban children under 16 from social media, saying online safety was one of parents' toughest ...

Loans and grants totaling $204 million were awarded this week for water projects in Arkansas, according to a news release from the governor's office. The money will help pay for water projects in 28 ...