The U.S. war in Afghanistan has had many ups and downs, but few days have been worse than Sunday, when an American Army sergeant allegedly went door to door in a village, fatally shooting 16 civilians, including nine children.

The nation’s had three consecutive months of job growth, a powerful sign that the Great Recession may finally be receding. So why don’t we feel better about the economy? The United States added 227,000 jobs in February, the second month in a row that came in stronger than expected, but there are still plenty of […]

The Pentagon reported on March 2 that five U.S. military personnel have been found responsible for the inadvertent burning of Qurans at a prison in Afghanistan last month that prompted a week of rioting and violence in that country.

We’re not meteorologists or soothsayers, so we’re not going to speculate as to whether this year’s spring severe weather season will rival last year’s in intensity, destructiveness and loss of life.

It would be easy to call the gridlock in Congress laughable, except for the real impact it has on our everyday lives — such as the gridlock on highways.

People love their smartphones and all the amazing things that the devices can do for them.

A month ago, we welcomed the news that Gov. Paul LePage and Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen had rolled out their education reform agenda. At the time, we noted that some of the elements of the plan likely would be controversial — such as using public money to pay tuition at religious schools — but believed […]

Any teenager can buy a movie ticket for “This Means War,” a comedy featuring gunplay, fisticuffs, car crashes and “romantic stalking.”

For the last three months, the LePage administration has been clear about two things: the size of the shortfall in the Department of Health and Human Services budget and its cause — overly generous eligibility standards for the state’s low-income health care safety net.