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On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, the sun shone brightly. Little did we know that this beautiful day would end as the second deadliest, non-battlefiel...

We are about to embark on what might be one of the wildest years in the history of American politics, and it may end up merely as a prelude. If 2024 i...

It’s so hard to be a parent anymore. The world creeps in and tries like hell to dictate how we raise our children. Yet, if we can tune out the noise a...

As we enter a presidential election year, pundits are focused on the incessant drama — criminal and otherwise — swirling around a potential rematch be...

HARRISBURG — In 2024, Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro could face a more complicated sophomore year in charge of Pennsylvania after his first year brought...

PHILADELPHIA — This winter, in addition to the COVID-19 and flu vaccines, FDA-approved RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) immunizations are now availab...

In the first six months of his term, Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro spent more than $92,000 in public funds to update the furnishings at the Governor’s ...

In an interview with the Financial Times, the longtime Washington political analyst Charlie Cook noted that President Joe Biden’s job approval rating ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — My New Year’s resolution 12 months ago was to write fewer columns about Donald Trump. That well-intended goal met the same end as m...

NEW YORK (TNS) — 2023 had barely begun when scientists got some jolting news. On Jan. 4, a paper appeared in Nature claiming that disruptive scientifi...

In recent weeks, Congress has stripped a senator of his committee chairmanship pending a bribery investigation, expelled a House member for egregious ...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Almost everything I hope for when it comes to foreign policy in 2024 seems outlandishly Pollyanna-ish. But a person has the right...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Last year at this time, 85% of economists in one poll predicted a recession this year — and that was an optimistic take compared to t...

“YOU HAVE BEEN HACKED. DOWN WITH ISRAEL.” Those were the words displayed at the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa, along with a motif of a drowni...

Commuters may want high-speed rail — but at what price? Apparently $3 billion. That’s what the U.S. Department of Transportation committed this month ...

The public-health officials are getting around to admitting the fallibility of public-health officials. The former head of the National Institutes of ...

The world is becoming increasingly electric and connected, transitioning towards a future powered by batteries and running on electronics that will re...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Sawdust. Horseshoes. Eggs on spoons. Water balloons. This is not an attempt at free-verse poetry. These are the images that come to...

HARRISBURG — At the end of 2022, Pennsylvania released its plan to bring “robust high-speed broadband infrastructure” to unserved and overlooked parts...

Later this month, the cremated remains of four veterans whose bodies were unclaimed when they died will be buried at the National Cemetery of the Alle...