Author – The Durango Herald

Vaccination ‘passports’ may open society, but inequity looms

TEL AVIV, Israel – Violet light bathed the club stage as 300 people, masked and socially distanced, erupted in gentle applause. For the first time since the pandemic began, Israeli musician ...

DATE: Feb 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Travel

GOP senators to watch on Trump’s emergency declaration

WASHINGTON – The fight about President Donald Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall is heading to the GOP-controlled Senate, putting Republicans in the uncomfortable spot of deciding whether to ba...

DATE: Feb 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Official Washington scrambles over Kavanaugh sexual assault allegations

Woman who accused Supreme Court nominee says she will testify to Congress about incident

DATE: Sep 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Breaking tradition

Former presidents sparring with Trump

DATE: Oct 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Carter national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski dies

WASHINGTON – Jimmy Carter had been impressed with the views of foreign policy expert Zbigniew Brzezinski well before he won the presidency in 1977. That he immediately liked the Polish-born ...

DATE: May 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Allies rallying to help Trump’s Labor nominee

WASHINGTON – Rattled by bitter fights over President Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, Republicans and their allies have launched a fresh campaign to defend fast-food executive Andrew Puzder’s n...

DATE: Feb 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump: CIA report ‘ridiculous’

Lawmakers vow probe of Russian hacking

DATE: Dec 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump signals end to Clinton investigations

WASHINGTON – After a campaign filled with Donald Trump’s denunciations of “Crooked Hillary” Clinton, the president-elect declared Tuesday that “I don’t want to hurt the Clintons; I really do...

DATE: Nov 22, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump goes on tear against media

Message discipline eludes brash billionaire

DATE: Aug 14, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump calls scolding by Newt Gingrich ‘inappropriate’

WASHINGTON – Donald Trump said Monday it was “inappropriate” for Newt Gingrich to demand he drop the subject of an American judge’s ethnicity and start acting like “a potential leader of the...

DATE: Jun 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Gowdy: Benghazi emails show ‘disconnect’ with Washington

WASHINGTON – The chairman of the panel investigating the deadly 2012 Benghazi attacks said Sunday that new information reveals a “total disconnect” between the security needs of U.S. personn...

DATE: Oct 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

A viewers’ guide to the first Democratic debate

WASHINGTON – Five Democrats vying to be President Barack Obama’s successor meet Tuesday night for their first televised debate of the 2016 election, a confrontation between one of the best-k...

DATE: Oct 13, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World