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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Even after Kentucky’s lackluster 7-6 football season in 2022, Mark Stoops continues to receive ample respect in the national rankings of the best college football coaches.

HARTFORD, Conn. — The 10-word telegram sizzled through the Western Union wires from Hartford to Manhattan and must have dropped in like a hand grenade in the Yankees’ offices on 42nd Street.

The grim news courses through the latest Nation’s Report Card: Half a century of educational “progress” has yielded no progress at all. The National Center for Education Statistics’ long-term trend assessments for American 13-year-olds in math and reading make for tough reading. The upshot? Reading scores fell to where they…

COLUMBIA, S.C. — When Nikki Haley was first elected to the South Carolina State House, she didn’t have many friends. It was a consequence of her ousting a 30-year incumbent in the Republican primary.

Q: My husband and I have an ongoing dispute. Don't worry: No matter what, your answer won't precipitate a divorce! My question, which is for all the marbles: Does a car cool off more quickly if one opens the windows while waiting for the A/C to kick in, even in…

On the economic merits, we support President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel more than $400 billion in student loan debt for 26 million Americans. Rejecting more sweeping proposals that would have benefited the already well-off, the president and his Education Department smartly focused the most relief on those in the…

​WASHINGTON — The fiscal 2024 appropriations process has just begun, but some patterns in the distribution of earmarks by the majorities in their respective chambers are starting to emerge.

The Supreme Court has just saved American taxpayers more than half a trillion dollars by holding that President Joe Biden and Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona cannot cancel federal student loans under the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003, the “HEROES Act.”

LOS ANGELES– The Pirates didn’t face Clayton Kershaw, but they sure did their best to make the Dodgers’ Monday night starter resemble him.