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The poem “Joan our Icon” is reprinted with kind permission from About Now by Richard Reeve (Maungatua Press, $25), named by poetry czar Nick Ascroft in ReadingRoom in December as the best collection ...

U.S. officials have said agents did not rely on “tattoos alone” to identify gang members before the weekend flights. But ...

Trump did it again on Tuesday by designating the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge ... that my life was saved that day in Butler for a very good reason,” Trump said. “I was saved by God to ...

Free-speech battles and pressure from Washington threaten America’s oldest university—and the soul of higher education.

Several other House Democrats walked out while wearing “Resist” T-shirts ... believe that my life was saved that day in Butler for a very good reason. I was saved by God to make America ...

La Faye Duren has played the pipe organ at Second Baptist Church, adding a classical flavor to African American spirituals.

HADI NAZARI: I was communicating with God in a way that ... and I’m doing everything that I can – shouting, waving my shirt, screaming - doing everything so that the helicopters they ...

My grandmother and great-aunt visited from Uruguay when I was eight, and they gasped and exclaimed to God that they’d never ... many years before had been my refuge away from my mother, where ...

Mr. Trump then announced that he had renamed a national wildlife refuge east of Houston in memory ... a warm handshake with the president. “Oh my God,” Nancy Pelosi mouthed to her seat mate ...

She’d found a short documentary on public television, but the green of his shirt ... My gallerist is walking rapidly toward us with a very determined expression. Pretend we’re invisible. Oh ...