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The Federal Reserve shocked no one Wednesday when it announced another 25 basis-point hike to interest rates. Yet our lack of surprise doesn’t mean a ...

The two most common themes of MAGA sorehead emails I received last year were the inevitability of an anti-Biden landslide in 2022, and the certainty o...

There is little doubt that, as state Auditor General Timothy DeFoor recently reported, some public school districts move around money to avoid reporti...

Nationally, Latinos are flexing their growing political muscle. They now make up 11% of the U.S. House, for example. In Pennsylvania, however, Latino ...

Donald Trump hasn’t been impressing anyone with his political acuity lately, but at least he is fully aware of one of his own vulnerabilities. His ear...

BOSTON (TNS) — Reports that Labor Secretary and former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is a finalist for the head of the National Hockey League players’ unio...

For the people on the Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh on Jan. 28, 2022, the unthinkable happened in a heartbeat. There was a banging sound. There was...

Kevin McCarthy is House speaker. That's the shorthand routinely use to describe theCaliforniaRepublican's political position. And though it's absolute...

Perhaps because the state Legislature traditionally has been an overwhelmingly male bastion, it has an equally long history of failing to take serious...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — The state auditor general recently questioned the amount of money some school districts are holding in their savings accounts. So wh...

If you think public policy doesn’t really affect you or your family, take a quick glance at your retirement account — but you may want to sit down fir...

How did this happen? Those of us who are paying attention find ourselves in a country we no longer recognize. How did unelected bureaucrats get the po...

There are lies and liars and then there’s George Santos. Last week, news broke that the Justice Department wants the Federal Election Commission to de...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — At first glance, Priscilla Villarreal is not a particularly empathetic figure. Not to most conservatives, anyway. The tattoo...

Republicans have long said the Hunter Biden laptop scandal is really a Joe Biden story. Now, it looks like the Joe Biden classified documents scandal ...

Logging and mining companies and allied politicians lamented recently that two Biden administration decisions to preserve wilderness areas constituted...

Is it possible to argue that suspending Donald Trump from various social media sites after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on our nation’s Capitol was the ri...

Political pundits rate Pennsylvania among the swing states. Reviewing the Keystone map, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are overwhelmingly Democratic stro...

There’s nothing white supremacy can’t do. It is supposedly so pervasive and powerful that it can cause Black men to sign up to serve as police officer...

I was at the Bradford Post Office first thing on Thursday. I noticed that the sidewalks around the building hadn’t been shoveled or salted from the sn...