By The Associated Press Today is Tuesday, March 25, the 84th day of 2025. There are 281 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 25, 1931, in the so-called “Scottsboro Boys” case, nine young Black men were taken off a train in Alabama, accused of raping two white ...

WASHINGTON — If an investment yields stagnant or negative returns despite increased funding, the rational thing to do is back off. This logic rarely applies in government, but we’re in a unique moment. The U.S. Department of Education -- which has long exemplified the sunk-cost fallacy with ...

By Josh Hammer WASHINGTON — At his 2005 Senate confirmation hearing to be chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Roberts famously invoked America’s national pastime in describing his view of the judicial role in our constitutional order: “Judges are like umpires. Umpires ...

“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out -- Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out -- Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out -- Because I was not a ...

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump is deporting immigrants -- 11,000 last month. Some people are unhappy about that. Last week a judge ordered a stop to Trump’s removal of Venezuelan nationals. (Deportation happened anyway.) I definitely want immigrant criminals deported. Trump says ...

Today’s Highlight in History: On March 21, 1965, civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their third, successful march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. On this date: In 1685, composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany. In 1935, ...