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For many decades, possessing even a small amount of marijuana could mean big legal trouble. Regardless of whether someone caught with a personal-use a...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — When it comes to Queen Elizabeth II, it is the marmalade sandwich I will always remember. For those who never saw the video she m...

Rep. Glenn Thompson, you were a nursing home administrator before you became my U.S. congressman. Why do you vote no to all the bills that would help ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — Chicago became the latest northern city to feel a little of the Texas heat last week. Two busloads of migrants, containing r...

Health officials are forecasting a fall COVID-19 surge, but one with fewer fatalities than past coronavirus spikes. The good news: A variant-specific ...

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. and U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman has not fully recovered from the serious stroke he suffered in May. His campaign has ac...

Harriet Hageman is the environmental lawyer who defeated incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney by a landslide in Wyoming’s much-watched Republican House primary. ...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — In early 1990, when Mikhail Gorbachev’s efforts to liberalize Soviet life were in full flower, I was on a journalistic exchange w...

John Fetterman has been in elected politics for nearly 20 years, and last spring was on the cusp of taking the Democratic nomination in a very winnabl...

Some would say the 20th century ended at Y2K — midnight on Jan. 1, 2000. Others would say that, as a historical phenomenon, it extended until the shoc...

Quick, somebody repair the slippery floors and close all the open hospital windows in Moscow. One was obviously responsible for the freak-accident dea...

{p class=”krtHeadline”}High school sports are an element of public education and public business, over which the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic...

President Biden’s recent speech in which he denounces what he calls “MAGA” Republicans as an anti-democratic force which cannot be tolerated, flanked ...

“I voted for Obama twice and Hillary once. But I’ll tell you, I’m going to vote for that knucklehead Donald Trump again.” My Uber driver made that dec...

Two months ago, as Americans began their summer vacations, the political landscape looked bleak for Joe Biden and his Democrats. Inflation was soaring...

Personally, I’ve no use for what I call “greeting card holidays.” Valentine’s Day, Halloween, Father’s Day, Mother’s Day? Forget it. Actually, I’m lee...

Pennsylvania has the oldest supreme court in the United States and all of North America, at 300 years. Founded in 1722, it predates the Supreme Court ...

The death of the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, has understandably triggered an avalanche of tributes to the man who oversaw the ...

Catalytic converters are invaluable to the environment because they convert toxic vehicle exhausts into less onerous gases. Unfortunately, the rare ea...

One hundred forty years ago, the first Labor Day parade almost ended before it began. On Sept. 5, 1882, thousands of union workers, police officers an...