Lawyers across the country are challenging the dues they pay to their state bar associations, saying they're being forced to subsidize organizations that they fundamentally disagree with politically. Published April 21, 2019
With a sheriff's deputy's son behind bars accused of arson, worshippers at three charred, historically black churches in St. Landry Parish might be expected to have a bitter Holy Week. In fact, they have not. If anything, the alleged arsons have strengthened the community, generating an outpouring of support locally and across the nation: An online campaign was closing in on $2 million in pledges for repairs on Thursday. Published April 18, 2019
On this shrinking strip of marsh in the Gulf of Mexico, many of the dozens who still live here have no intention of leaving. Published April 16, 2019
The real estate market in some of the richest pockets of the Northeast is flooded with sellers, as homeowners try to unload gorgeous properties -- and their high tax rates. Published April 10, 2019
From seminaries to beauty schools, taxpayers are financing the schooling of millions of students, and the flood of public dollars is driving up the cost of education, critics charge. Published April 2, 2019
The outlook may be improving for America's farmers, whose famous resilience has been tested by President Trump's trade policies as well as by lower prices driven by several years of bountiful harvests. Published March 31, 2019
Sen. Bernard Sanders has amassed a presidential campaign team of pit bulls skilled in the art of internal party warfare -- and in many cases is still grinding axes over the way he was treated by the Democratic Party in his 2016 run for the White House. Published March 28, 2019
Republican Rep. Devin Nunes accused Twitter in a lawsuit Monday of censoring him and other conservatives during the 2018 elections, as the social media giant admitted it goofed in blocking the content of a conservative commentator last week. Published March 18, 2019
Twitter admitted Monday it goofed in blocking content of a conservative commentator last week -- though the company suggested it was an error, not a policy. Published March 18, 2019
The federal government has gone more than 25 years without making a serious effort to recover overpayments for bogus Medicaid charges that could run into the billions of dollars, according to two senators demanding an explanation. Published March 17, 2019
Florida voters were almost evenly split when voting for a new governor, they're uniting behind the one they picked, according to a new poll. Published March 13, 2019
There's no telling how much money the government could save if it were to stop asking Americans to "Press 2 for Spanish." What is clear, according to those pushing the change, is that President Trump could do it with the stroke of a pen. Why he hasn't done so remains shrouded. Published March 10, 2019
The end of the government's fiscal year usually brings an orgy of spending as agencies look at their budgets, see extra cash lying around, and figure they'd better use it all up or risk getting cut in the future. Published March 7, 2019
As Sen. Elizabeth Warren sets her sights on the White House, she has clammed up about her history of lucrative corporate legal work. Published February 28, 2019
Congress eventually stopped the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere," but what about the permanent bridge, the one seemingly under construction forever, or whose budget keeps rising? Published February 26, 2019
A federal judge has found a former Virginia Tech professor guilty of defrauding the federal government by applying for grants to conduct research that he'd actually already completed in China. Published February 25, 2019
Critics of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are quick to label him bad for the environment, most recently complaining that he surrendered to a court order allowing exploratory drilling in the iconic Everglades. Published February 24, 2019
No one knows what it might cost to build a high-speed rail system in California like the one sold to voters in 2008 -- and worse yet, it's not clear just who, if anyone, would ride it. Published February 20, 2019
An Alabama newspaper drew an unprecedented censure Tuesday from the state's press association this week after it ran an editorial calling for the return the Ku Klux Klan. Published February 20, 2019
Pews were packed again Sunday at First Baptist Church, a congregation of thousands that, like all other Southern Baptist churches, is wrestling with the fallout from a massive sexual misconduct scandal. Published February 18, 2019
