NEW YORK – The next time you see little girls playing with dolls, don’t expect them to be acting out dream-house fantasies or preparing dinner for Ken. Instead of those traditional doll pastimes, girls may be helping their miniature friends snowboard off a living-room settee-turned-Andean mountain or scuba-dive in a …

WASHINGTON – In an action Republican members said was “crossing a threshold” of congressional irresponsibility, Senate Democrats effectively killed President Bush’s nomination of Texas Supreme Court Judge Priscilla Owen Thursday. After a series of statements condemning the judge for what they said was her conservative activism on the bench, Democrats …

WASHINGTON – Rep. Cynthia McKinney loves a good fight. Now, for the first time since 1996, the Georgia Democrat might face one in her party’s primary. Recently retired Judge Denise Majette says McKinney’s FourthDistrict,in middle class Atlanta with a population about 50 percent black, has suffered long enough from bad …

WASHINGTON – President Bush wants to put welfare recipients to work as part of a series of changes to the welfare system that he is proposing. On Wednesday, the president took his show on the road, speaking to community leaders in North Carolina about his plan to usher in the …

It seems to me, that a lot of folks out there hate us here. Not just a little bit, but a lot. A lot of you say, “Neil, you’re imagining it.” Oh, contraire, my friends. I’m just back from London and I saw it. First hand. Up close. In person. …

NEW YORK – Forget boardrooms and closed-door offices, overhead projectors, intrusive telephone rings and e-mail pings. Instead, think frothy latte and crumbling muffins, cushy chairs and coffee-stained tables. Some of today’s professionals are marching from conference rooms to cafés, takin’ care of business in a more pleasant, less-restrictive atmosphere. “It’s …

WASHINGTON – Most kids expect a toy or a coupon when they reach to the bottom of a cereal box, not a hateful message or pornographic image. But that’s exactly what a number of unsuspecting consumers have been finding in their boxes of Honeycomb and Alpha-Bits cereal. Word of the …

Rescuers were digging through dirt and parts of a collapsed road tunnel Monday to reach 40 workers trapped by a landslide at the construction project in northern India. All of the construction workers are safe, police officer Prashant Kumar said, adding that they have been supplied with oxygen and water. …

Former President Donald Trump said it best: “We have a guy in the White House who can’t put two sentences together, who couldn’t find his way off this stage. And this is the guy we have negotiating with….President Xi of China.” Biden’s mental impairment is one reason to dread his …

Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh changed his tune Monday on at least one thing as he is suspended from games for the rest of the regular season over the school’s sign-stealing scandal. Harbaugh mentioned his about-face on chickens during his press conference. He had reportedly called chickens a “nervous bird” …