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Feeling lost in the church pew

Dear Annie: My question is: Can I still keep going to my church or is it time to cut ties? This is complicated because my husband was a pastor and I appreciated him greatly as a preacher. He took early retirement, but we stayed in the same town because I had a good job and we needed my income and insurance until I could retire. Unfortunately, my husband — who was 15 years older than me — began developing dementia. We’d planned to move to the university town in our state where I attended college, and where three of our five children also graduated. One son and his family live ...

Epstein files dogged Bondi’s tenure

NEW YORK (AP) — After Pam Bondi became U.S. attorney general last year, conservative influencers, online sleuths and others who wanted the government to disclose all it knew about Jeffrey Epstein thought they might have a champion in the Department of Justice. So did Jess Michaels, one of the legions of women who have said they were sexually assaulted by the late financier and convicted sex offender with a roster of powerful friends in business, politics and beyond. “I thought, ‘Well, maybe a woman stepping into this role will finally, finally get the truth,’” Michaels ...

Trump’s Iran war leaves Republicans adrift ahead of midterms

NEW YORK (AP) — This is not the run-up to the midterm elections that Republicans wanted. A year and a half after winning the White House by promising to lower costs and end wars, Donald Trump is a wartime president overseeing surging energy costs and an escalating overseas conflict. The war in Iran was largely unpopular even before an American fighter jet was shot down in Iran, a development that dominated headlines on Friday and contradicted Trump’s claim that Tehran’s military capabilities have been all but destroyed. One crew member has been rescued. Earlier in the week, ...

Trump budget seeks $1.5T in defense spending

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has proposed boosting defense spending to $1.5 trillion in his 2027 budget released Friday, the largest such request in decades, reflecting his emphasis on U.S. military investments over domestic programs. The sizable increase for the Pentagon, some 44%, had been telegraphed by the Republican president even before the the U.S.-led war against Iran. The president’s plan would also reduce spending on non-defense programs by 10%. “President Trump promised to reinvest in America’s national security infrastructure, to make sure our nation ...

Good Friday, Resurrection Sunday

There are moments in history when the noise of the world grows so loud that it drowns out the quiet truths we most need to hear. War dominates headlines. Moral confusion clouds judgment. Division becomes the language of public life. And in such moments, Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday arrive not as distant religious observances but as urgent invitations to pause, to reflect and to rediscover what it means to be whole. Good Friday is, at its core, a confrontation with suffering. It is not comfortable. It is not triumphant. It does not offer easy answers. It asks us instead to sit ...

Duke freshman forward Cameron Boozer named The Associated Press men’s national player of the year

(AP) —Cameron Boozer was at the center of everything for Duke this season. The 6-foot-9, 250-pound forward proved tough enough to score through physical play. Rangy enough to space the floor and shoot from outside. Deft enough as a passer to find teammates, whether against constant double teams coming for him as the top name on every scouting report or while running the entire offense from up top. “You just want to affect winning in whatever way you can,” Boozer said. The high-end NBA prospect did that all season for a team that won 35 games, reached No. 1 in the AP Top 25 ...