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The calendar for the 2024 presidential campaign just became a lot more complicated. Not the primary calendar. The trial calendar. Last week, former Pr...

Last week NASA announced the names of the four astronauts who will crew Artemis II, a 10-day mission planned for November 2024. The expedition will bo...

If you feel like drag queens are ubiquitous these days, you aren’t wrong. Whether it’s public libraries, advertisements or award shows, it seems like ...

The churn of local politics rarely makes national news unless the outlet happens to be C-SPAN, but headlines, history and careers were made during pro...

You may read about them in the newspaper, run into them in the supermarket, or even see them patching potholes, mowing along local roads, or plowing s...

You don’t know what’s in the indictment. That was the line that progressives repeatedly threw at conservatives dubious about Manhattan District Attorn...

Tightening rules on elections has been a hot topic in recent years. It’s an idea that has gotten top-down attention. Donald Trump brought heat to it w...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is growing, and getting stronger as it does. It now has 31 member states. This makes the alliance, created in 1...

Pennsylvania’s U.S. senators are leading the push to hold the rail industry more accountable for ensuring the safety not just of the people who work i...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — ”This seems to be more about the person than about the crime.” — Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La. The senator’s raising the right question...

In 1896, the body of a baby, wrapped in a bag, was fished out of London’s Thames river. An investigation led to the hanging of Amelia Dyer, a “baby fa...

Using billions of dollars in highway money to fund state police always was bad policy, but it’s even worse now that doing so could jeopardize Pennsylv...

Decades ago, when the late Nevada Sen. Harry Reid was relatively new to the upper chamber, a book arrived at the offices of a Las Vegas newspaper cour...

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy sent a letter last week to President Joe Biden in which he admonished the White House for not taking more seriousl...

A quasi-governmental monopoly has handled the collection and distribution of donated organs in the United States for about 40 years, and there appears...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — A couple of weeks ago, as I moderated a discussion at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House on the heated battle to ...

“Community” is one of those words that have been hijacked and ruined like “preferred,” “appropriation,” and “equity,” among many others. In the wake o...

Count me among those who are skeptical about indicting former president Donald Trump on charges that he tried to cover up an affair by paying off a po...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Arrested for corruption or corruptly arrested? As of this writing, the former president of the United States and frontrunning GOP ...

Communities across Pennsylvania struggle with an emergency of their own as they try to provide adequate emergency services amid rising demands, declin...