As North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson finds himself under fire for lewd and racist comments he allegedly made on a pornography website more than a decade ago, Republicans have gone to great lengths to avoid condemning him.

Friday was a bad day for bad guys, as Hezbollah terrorists had two of its top gangsters offed in a targeted Israeli airstrike in Beirut that also took out more than a dozen other Hezbollah cutthroats. Now dead is Ibrahim Aqil, wanted for killing Americans. As U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said, “Any time a terrorist who has murdered Americans is brought to justice, we believe that that is a good outcome.” Agreed.

It was always inevitable, and now it’s official: The new era of relentless political intrusion into personal medical decisions is killing women.

Remember during the 2020 presidential race when Donald Trump refused to disown right-wing violent extremists, instead telling the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by”? We might now know what they’ve been standing by for.

Since the avalanche of accusations against Harvey Weinstein in 2017, we’ve always suspected that there were probably more incidents of sexual misconduct against the former movie power player than were publicly acknowledged.

As investigators sort through what appears to be a second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump last weekend, partisans are predictably blaming each other for incendiary rhetoric and extremist politics. One thing that might ease the tension is for the two presidential candidates to keep doing what they’ve been doing in recent days: acting with relative civility.

Donald Trump is a late convert to restoring the federal income tax deduction of state and local taxes (SALT) that were capped at $10,000 when he signed his big Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2018. But Trump’s support is still most welcome and his fellow Republicans in Congress should follow his lead. The current law is simply unfair, putting an extra burden on people in states like New York.

The past few years have been rough flying for Boeing, with much of it self-inflicted.

Politics can be a rough-and-tumble enterprise, a dominion where those with thick skin, steel jaws and bare knuckles thrive. Nobody expects the candidates competing in hotly contested races to resolve their differences with pillow fights.

Whether it’s TikTok or Instagram or Snapchat or some yet-to-be-released app sure to enrapture its users, it’s pretty clear — to us, at least — that too many young people are now spending too much of their time falling all the way down shallow-yet-deep online rabbit holes designed by profit-hungry companies to draw them in.

It shouldn’t take another attempt on Donald Trump’s life to convince the Secret Service its strategy for protecting the former president is inadequate.

A seismic shift has occurred in America’s race, identity and power discourse. Like tectonic plates beneath the Earth’s surface, long-held assumptions are adjusting and giving way to a reimagined lingua franca for civic engagement. This revived language of liberation redefines the terms of debate. It empowers us to reclaim and reinvigorate words once weaponized principally against marginalized communities.

Last week, President Joe Biden and the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and the Treasury issued new rules meant to ensure that insurance coverage for mental health conditions and substance abuse disorder has parity with the level of services available for physical health.

At last week’s presidential debate, Donald Trump brought up a chilling scene: Haitian migrants roaming the city of Springfield, Ohio, terrorizing the local population and eating their pets. It was a message previously spread by his vice presidential candidate, JD Vance, and other prominent GOP politicians.

For American households, the good news is that inflation rates have largely returned to pre-pandemic levels. Perhaps most importantly, economists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture predict that gains in food price will continue to moderate. Indeed, data compiled by Adobe Inc. shows that online grocery prices fell 3.7% in August from a month earlier, the largest decline since the firm began tracking the numbers in 2014.