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By Jeff Deist* Joe Biden’s perverse legacy, if that term even applies anymore, may well be determined in coming weeks by his handling of events in Ukraine. He can improve it by showing restraint against the relentless neoconservative chorus. One wonders what the results of a pure popular vote on the question of going to war with Russia over Ukraine would be, vs. a vote solely within the DC be...

Springfield school board candidate Steve Makoski took an early lead in fundraising for the April 5 election but is now trailing Kelly Byrne. In all, the five candidates vying for two open spots on the board have raised a total of $81,141 in monetary and in-kind donations, according to campaign reports filed with the Missouri Ethics Commission. The latest reports were due Thursday, 40 days be...

The kinsmen of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on Wednesday, held a rally across Sagamu, calling on Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to declare interest in the 2023 presidential election. Just as they presented a letter addressed to Osinbajo containing their demand to the Akarigbo and Paramount Ruler of Remoland, Oba Babatunde Ajayi, for onward delivery. The indigenes from across the 35 wards in Re...

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In what’s become a much-discussed class-action lawsuit filed earlier this month, former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores accused that team and also the Denver Broncos and New York Giants of acts of racial discrimination. During an interview on “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” that will air Tuesday evening, Doug Wigdor, Flores’ attorney, said the Pittsburgh Steelers’ new senior defensive...

Michael Jordan had just won his first championship, beating Magic Johnson in the NBA Finals. They were poised to lead a Dream Team the world couldn’t wait to watch. Yes, the NBA rolled into the fall of 1991 with unlimited promise. Jordan, already basketball’s best and most popular player, was now on its top team. The 1992 Olympics were just a year away and for the first time would include NBA...

Article content Law & Order Season 21 Nearly 12 years after going off the air, the Emmy-winning Law & Order returns with series stars Sam Waterston (Jack McCoy) and Anthony Anderson (Detective Kevin Bernard) reprising their original roles. Jeffrey Donovan, Camryn Manheim, Hugh Dancy and Odelya Halevi join the reboot, with other familiar faces set to appear. “I think we definitely want...

Article content Law & Order Season 21 Nearly 12 years after going off the air, the Emmy-winning Law & Order returns with series stars Sam Waterston (Jack McCoy) and Anthony Anderson (Detective Kevin Bernard) reprising their original roles. Jeffrey Donovan, Camryn Manheim, Hugh Dancy and Odelya Halevi join the reboot, with other familiar faces set to appear. “I think we definitely want...

In 1972, President Richard M. Nixon’s cronies greenlit a plan for a gang of burglars to sneak into the Democratic National Committee headquarters. In an excerpt from the widely anticipated new book Watergate: A New History, Garrett Graff outlines the leading conjectures about the burglars’ real motives for a crime that would bring down a president. Watergate is usually considered shorthand fo...

Walter Dellinger, a renowned scholar of constitutional law and one of the top legal figures in the Clinton administration, in which he served as head of the Office of Legal Counsel and later as acting solicitor general, died on Wednesday at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 80. His son Hampton, who oversees the Office of Legal Policy at the Department of Justice, said the cause was complic...