During his first state of the union address Tuesday night, President Donald Trump repeatedly called for bipartisanship, painted hopeful images, and told inspiring stories about guests in the crowd. But a year’s worth of partisan battles cut through the president’s optimistic rhetoric.
You may not believe this, but in the United States there are more weeks without football than with it. Considering only the contests that count—preseason games in the pros are inconsequential, as are spring games in college—each year has 23 weeks with football compared to 29 weeks without it. So savor the upcoming curtain call of this eventful season, and hope both contenders, the Eagles and Patriots, honor sports lore by saving the best for last.
The Associated Press reported Tuesday that Major League Baseball will expand its experiment of starting extra innings in certain games with a runner at second base.
Despite the inevitable freakout from baseball purists, there is one big takeaway: None of the games will count toward a team’s regular season or postseason record. The rule went into effect in the low minors last year, beginning in the 10th inning. It will be applied at the same point in spring training games (which are capped at 10 innings, anyway) this upcoming season. And it will go into effect in the 11th inning of the All-Star Game—and only seven contests in the 85-year history of the game have reached.
Republicans and Democrats are at odds over the Trump administration's decision Monday to hold off on new sanctions that target Russia’s intelligence and defense sectors.
Lawmakers included the Russia sanctions in a bill signed reluctantly by President Donald Trump in August. The measures were meant in part to punish the Kremlin over 2016 election interference—but top Democratic lawmakers said the administration’s move to delay implementing some of the penalties failed to do that.
“The Trump administration had a decision to make whether they would follow the law and crack down on those responsible for attacking American democracy,” said Eliot Engel, the top Democrat on the House Foreign
Donald Trump's love of populism and view of America as a carnage-strewn wasteland has been replaced by a sunny view of America and the elite institutions the president controls. Will the State of the Union address reflect that?
It’s time for the January 2018 Hypocrite of the Month awards. The nominees are . . .
Jerry Brown and Andrew Cuomo, governors of the two largest states controlled by the Democratic party—which accuses the new Republican tax cuts of favoring the rich at the expense of the middle class. Brown and Cuomo are preparing to sue the federal government because the new tax law limits deduction for state income, sales, and property taxes to $10,000. Until now, the deduction has been unlimited. Clearly, this change hits people with large and expensive homes, none of whom are likely to be poor.
President Trump’s second annual address to Congress passed Tuesday night without him mentioning a sole word about entitlement spending, continuing a deviation from the economically conservative Congress he inherited.

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