Team Trump wants us all to get over this annoying Russia thing and just move on. Sorry, sir, not going to happen.
I have long believed that Donald Trump has a special knack, a particular gift for making his most dedicated fans look foolish.
GANTA, Liberia — Cheer up: Despite the gloom, the world truly is becoming a better place. Indeed, 2017 is likely to be the best year in the history of humanity.
Remember when Donald Trump declared that “nobody knew that health care could be so complicated”?
We can scoff and sneer at those images of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on his beachfront imperium, or we can learn from them. As he took in the sun, he doled out a lesson, the same one that Donald Trump is delivering on a daily basis and in a grander fashion:
This is Up and Down, where we give a brief thumbs up and thumbs down on the issues from the past week.
In some ways it should be a quiet Fourth of July celebration in the Bismarck-Mandan area. That doesn’t mean it won’t be fun, because it will be.
There are many different flavors of freedom. For example, there is freedom as capacity and freedom as detachment.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The aircraft arrayed around the spacious lawn of Maxwell Air Force Base, home of the Air University, mostly represent long-retired types. The largest, however, is a glistening B-52 bomber, which represents a still-employed component of the Air Force's aging fleet: The youn…
BUCHANAN, Liberia — Imagine an elementary school where students show up, but teachers don’t. Where 100 students squeeze into a classroom but don’t get any books. Where teachers are sometimes illiterate and periodically abuse students. Where families pay under the table to get a “free” educat…
Shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, I differed with a friend who said I was wrong to support an invasion of Afghanistan to root out al-Qaida and punish the Taliban. I said America had no choice but to make the terrorists and their Afghan host pay for what they had done. I in…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — It is said that America's armed forces have been stressed by 16 years of constant warfare, the longest such in the nation's history. For the Air Force, however, the high tempo of combat operations began 26 years ago, with enforcement of the no-fly zone in Iraq after Desert…
By the standards of the Francis papacy, things were rather quiet in Rome for much of 2017. The great controversy of the previous two years, the debate over Communion for the divorced and remarried, had entered a kind of stalemate, with bishops the world over disagreeing and the pope himself …
Read through the obituaries published today in The Bismarck Tribune.
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This week's local crime and court updates from The Bismarck Tribune.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A man sentenced to life in prison for killing four people at a Mandan business in what authorities say was one of the most heinous crimes in North Dakota history plans to appeal his conviction.
TOWER CITY, N.D. (AP) — Authorities say a 43-year-old Bismarck woman was killed when the SUV she was riding in collided with an unoccupied tow truck that was stopped in the right lane on Interstate 94.
TOWER CITY (AP) — A 43-year-old Bismarck woman was killed when the SUV she was riding in collided with an unoccupied tow truck that was stopped in the right lane on Interstate 94.
Active COVID-19 cases soared to a pandemic high in North Dakota on Saturday, increasing by more than 10% for a fourth straight day and reaching 11,991.
The man sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison for killing four people at a rental management business on The Strip in Mandan three years ago plans to appeal his conviction.
One man is in custody and a warrant has been issued for another in connection with the theft last fall of drugs from the Glen Ullin Pharmacy that police said could be worth $160,000 on the street.
A judge has ruled that an attempted murder charge against a woman accused of rear-ending a motorcyclist at more than 100 mph can move to trial.
A 27-year-old man faces four felony charges for allegedly threatening to kill a Mandan store employee and assaulting her with a Taser he took from her during the altercation.
A state district judge on Friday refused to delay the release of thousands of documents related to security during the construction in North Dakota of the heavily protested Dakota Access Pipeline.
PIERRE, S.D. — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Friday unveiled a proposal to ban nearly all abortions, mimicking a Texas law that leaves enforcement up to private citizens through lawsuits instead of through prosecutors and criminal charges.
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A Republican-dominated South Dakota House committee on Friday rejected Gov. Kristi Noem's proposal to require public schools to have a moment of silence to start the day.
Gov. Doug Burgum will deliver his State of the State address on Feb. 16 in Fargo.