David Lightman is McClatchy’s chief congressional correspondent. He’s been writing, editing and teaching for nearly 50 years, with stops in Hagerstown, Riverside, Calif., Annapolis, Baltimore and ...

If your tax return is “squeaky clean,” you probably don’t need to worry that a tax refund will be unusually delayed.But the IRS is bracing for big cuts, and if... GOP budget plan would keep the ...

CLEVELAND - Well, that didn't help. Republicans emerged from their 2016 convention into a long general-election campaign against Hillary Clinton and the Democrats with as many challenges and problems ...

Chuck Larson and John McCain had agreed they’d be buried side by side some day. In 1998, it was time to pick out the burial site. Larson looked around the ...