| Good afternoon! A longtime cliche of movies, dog biting of mail carriers -- or at least dog chasing -- is no laughing matter for the post office. Dog attacks on postal workers rose last year to 6,755, up 206 from the previous year and the highest in three decades, as internet shopping booms. Medical expenses and workers' compensation cost the Postal Service millions of dollars each year. | Forecast |
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| President Donald Trump is suggesting that Syrian President Bashar Assad may have to leave power after this week's chemical weapons attack. | Syria's Assad faces mounting pressure after chemical attack |
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| Don Rickles, the big-mouthed, bald-headed "Mr. Warmth" whose verbal assaults endeared him to audiences and peers and made him the acknowledged grandmaster of insult comedy, died Thursday. |
| The world's No. 1-ranked golfer, Dustin Johnson, has withdrawn from the Masters after injuring his lower back in a fall at the home he was renting for the week. |
| In 1917, the state created the Commission on Public Safety, an all-powerful body that reported only to itself. The members suspended civil rights, set up an armed militia and created a network of spies. | How should World War I be taught in American schools? |
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| Majority Leader Mitch McConnell set a new precedent in the Senate to advance Supreme Court nominations with a simple majority. The GOP change ended a Democratic filibuster of Neil Gorsuch. |
| The Minnesota Senate has voted to temporary delay the need for farmers to get permits to mow state-owned ditches along their land. |
| Flanked by around two dozen Republican lawmakers, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., announced a revision to the GOP bill. The amendment Ryan announced Thursday does not resolve disputes that have already split Republicans. |
| The transcendence of human into information is either almost here, a step in evolution - or an impossibility, a mad dream of people who can't accept the inevitability of death, says Marcelo Gleiser. |
