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The president of the United States is a blowhard — again. If the country thought that it was getting a buttoned-up, by-the-books communicator after fo...

FORT WORTH, Texas — In the aftermath of a tragedy like the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, when emotions and egos are running high, few of us ha...

Pennsylvania'sMay 17primary election might have been the most unusual race in the commonwealth's long and politically colorful history. As election re...

Last week, in an unscripted moment, President Joe Biden warned bluntly that if China invades Taiwan, the United States will come to the island's defen...

Save Bradford Hospital held its second public forum this past Wednesday at the Bradford Library. The 50 or so people who attended were presented a sli...

According to information from the Pennsylvania School Boards Association, the state Senate Education Committee is ready to vote on House Bill 2169, wh...

As of right now, in the entire country, there is just a single federally funded study on preventing gun violence in America’s schools. It started in S...

Like Wyatt Earp after the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Donald Trump and his allies mounted up for a vendetta ride in Georgia. Unlike Earp and his poss...

On Memorial Day, Americans remember those who gave their lives fighting for the freedoms we enjoy. Those we lost had joined all their other military b...

For over a year, the Federal Reserve ignored myriad warning signs and continued injecting money into the economy. The result was the appearance of rob...

I was saddened to learn of Fran De Lancey's passing in a recent edition of The Era. I had the privilege and great fortune of knowing Fran in my work a...

Americans often reflect on Robert Frost's meditation on roads not taken. Today, we might reflect on speeches not given — and on truths unspoken. One w...

We all know what happens when a tree falls in an empty forest. What happens when a democracy emerges unscathed from a purported vile racist threat to ...

NORRISTOWN — Pennsylvania’s former top law enforcement officer, who served jail time for leaking secret investigative files and lying about it, admitt...

FORT WORTH, Texas — It was probably inevitable that the baby formula shortage would devolve into a noxious quarrel between the breastfeeding and formu...

For more than two decades, American presidents have invested high hopes in a deepening U.S. relationship with India, the world's largest democracy — a...

Fran De Lancey, beloved Era correspondent, school teacher, gentleman and dear friend to so many, passed away on Wednesday at his son’s house in Bethel...

A closer inspection of the nonprofit tax form filed by the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation reveals even more unseemly details about the g...

Some see the one-day delay in counting mail-in ballots from Tuesday's primary as just one more misfire byLuzerne County'smistake-prone election system...

Populist critics have gone after the new $40 billion in aid to Ukraine hammer and tongs. Donald Trump has complained that we are sending billions to U...