Harper Lee: The author of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” one of the most beloved and lasting works in American literature, died yesterday at age 89 in Monroeville, Ala. where she lived. Harper Lee’s first novel about race and injustice in …

Uncas Thinking: A ground war in Iraq would lead to 100 US deaths and 500 wounded every month, President Obama told a private meeting of news columnists earlier this week. He said the cost in lives and money was the …

Bar the Door: In one of his most extreme pronouncements on any issue so far, leading Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump has called for all Muslims to be barred from entering the Unites States until US leaders can “figure out …

Armed and Dangerous: The FBI is treating the mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif. as a potential case of terrorism but has come to no conclusions. Investigators are looking into the possibility that the suspects Syed Farook, 28, and Tashfeen …