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NEW YORK (TNS) — Now that congressional Democrats have relaunched an effort to ban legacy admissions at top U.S. universities, virtually everyone can ...

McKean County hunters will have a good opportunity to harvest a doe or a buck when Pennsylvania’s two-week rifle season opens Saturday. The overall de...

Pensions for state employees and teachers have been a wrench in the gears of Pennsylvania government for decades. In 2001, Gov. Tom Ridge signed a law...

The political world spends a lot of time discussing former President Donald Trump’s lead over the Republican field in national polls — currently at 45...

History, the chronicle of humanity’s power struggles, oftentimes moves with agonizing slowness taking decades, generations and centuries for events to...

When it comes to spending other people’s money, the Biden administration has only one setting: more, more, more. Lost amid recent world events and the...

Owners of vacant and blighted properties in Pennsylvania may soon have to pay annual fees that get more expensive with each passing year. Where those ...

The Pilgrims were, to use the hostile term applied to Israelis in the debate over Palestine, unquestionably “settler colonialists.” As such, they are ...

Too much debt always catches up with a family, a business or a government. That’s why Moody’s Investors Service last week flipped its ratings for the ...

The 2023 school board elections have come and gone for the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Republicans earned some wins, but they were trounced in a han...

The usual suspects are rebuking Israel for “attacks” on hospitals in Gaza. Yet they speak nary a word about a terrorist organization that purposely en...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — In a world beset by wars in Gaza and Ukraine, it’s good news when two superpowers step back from frictions that increased the dange...

The Biden administration is so enthusiastic to push electric and hybrid vehicles on the public that the Energy Department is offering $12 billion in g...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Tired of Congress’ repeated partisan standoffs every time a big fiscal deadline approaches, like this week’s? Weary of the breathle...

Fifty years ago this week, legislation authorizing construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline passed both houses of Congress and was signed into law by...

Unsurprisingly, perhaps, I tend to follow the news. The news out of China is often disturbing for so many reasons. I was taken aback — aghast, one mig...

Washington D.C.’s Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, or Metro, has received $2.4 billion in federal aid since the beginning of the pandemic but its ...

The Commonwealth Court struck a blow for government accountability and transparency this week when it ruled a Lehigh County school district violated t...

The old conventional wisdom was that the U.S. couldn’t be too pro-Israel for fear of inflaming “the Arab street.” The new conventional wisdom will hav...

Pennsylvanians can use marijuana for anxiety or epilepsy. They can use it to ease the side effects of chemotherapy or the symptoms of post-traumatic s...