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COVID-19’s omicron variant is highly transmissible. It weakened vaccines’ defense against infection, though the shots still confer strong protection a...

Americans know that solar means business, creates jobs, helps the environment and can help families, farms and businesses save money. That’s why poll ...

There have been many unpleasant paid jobs throughout history, from executioner to leech collector to nitpicker. Now, to this litany of gruesome and on...

HARRISBURG — As the public comment period on the Delaware River Basin Commission’s latest round of anti-fracking regulations winds down, I’m reminded ...

When Russia’s Vladimir Putin massed 100,000 troops on Ukraine’s borders, the United States and its European allies responded with a hastily assembled ...

President Joe Biden is promising severe economic consequences for Russia should it invade Ukraine. Make no mistake, those consequences will be felt by...

Wars and military escalations breed clichés that are exclusive, yet elusive. So the Vietnam War’s best and brightest spent a decade chasing their illu...

Since the beginning of our American republic, newspapers have played a critical role in checking the power of government. The founders understood that...

One of the things that defines the American people is our passionate belief in fair play. No one should start out with inherent advantages, right? We ...

Bad ideas never truly go away. So it is that an old left-wing trope from the Cold War has currency again, both on the populist right and among progres...

I’m so old I can remember when people calling themselves “conservative” thought “cancel culture” was a bad thing. Oh wait, that was last week. More re...

In the teeth of a terrible pandemic, millions of Americans, both patients and healthcare providers, for the first time plunged into telemedicine. Init...

Local news is necessary news. All news serves a purpose. National news helps us identify what is happening in our country and how it affects us and ho...

Former NBC sportscaster Bob Costas called it perfectly. The International Olympics Committee’s decision to award China the 2022 Winter Olympics deserv...

Whatever caused the 497-foot Forbes Avenue bridge in Pittsburgh to fall into a ravine Friday is unique to that structure. As many engineers and public...

As Pennsylvanians count down the final year of Gov. Tom Wolf’s eight-year tenure, we’re in the midst of another countdown: the size of Pennsylvania’s ...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — The list of problems worsened by the pandemic is long. It swamped our antiquated and fraud-susceptible unemployment system. It burne...

Joe Biden was the candidate of normality who hasn’t been able to deliver it, particularly on the pandemic. This is not entirely his fault, obviously. ...

So what happened to the Fern Hollow Bridge? While most people might not necessarily know the name of the bridge that transported traffic through Frick...

The noble moral crusaders of Tennessee’s McMinn County School Board have voted unanimously to remove Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic n...