Opponents of capital punishment should have been pleased by Joe Biden's commutation of 37 federal death sentences. This one wasn't. Because this isn't the way to get rid of the death penalty; if ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A school district in Missouri announced it will reinstate spanking this school year – but with a parental caveat. Cassville School School District superintendent Merlyn Johnson said ...

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te thanked fighter pilots who had scrambled against China last week during its war games around the island. China, which claims democratically-governed Taiwan as its own ...

Merlyn Johnson said he did not take the Cassville school superintendent job a year ago with a plan to reinstate corporal punishment — a disciplinary measure the 1,900-student Barry County district ...