Dealmaker: President-elect Trump has named Rex Tillerson, the chief of Exxon Mobil, to be Secretary of State. He has no government or foreign policy experience other than doing business overseas, but appears to be friendly with Russian President Vladimir Putin. …

The Meaning of it All: The Republicans increasingly look as if they are headed for an open and contested convention this summer after Ted Cruz crushed Donald Trump 48-35 percent in the Wisconsin primary. Bernie Sanders badly beat Hillary Clinton …

Ebola: The surgeon who caught the Ebola virus treating patients in Sierra Leone has died, according to doctors at Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. Martin Salia, 44, arrived Saturday in critical condition. Salia was a permanent U.S. resident, who caught Ebola …

  For a while when I played in a men’s hockey league in Los Angeles one of our regular opponents was an all-gay team called the Blades. That’s right, they were the gay Blades.   One night we played in …