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The Medicare Part D drug program that was adopted during the George W. Bush administration was written for the benefit of the pharmaceutical industry....

More than 165,000 students soon will head to campus at Penn State, Temple, and Lincoln universities and the University of Pittsburgh, long before the ...

Sixty years ago, on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 1963, it was “Opening Day” at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, when the initial class of new students f...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Canada has launched an ambitious program to recruit highly skilled immigrants from all over the world — including from the United S...

Pennsylvania Transportation Secretary Mike Carroll made an adept analogy recently when he compared the ongoing transition to electric vehicles to the ...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that race-conscious college admission programs are unconstitutional, two things were imm...

NEW YORK (TNS) — It’s curious: Even as America’s economic trends are improving, Americans’ economic anxieties are worsening — including those of many ...

Congress in 1980 maintained the ability of the free press to do its job when it passed the Privacy Protection Act in response to a Supreme Court rulin...

The power of incumbency in politics used to be near absolute at the congressional level. Once elected, the job was, in a sense, yours for life. That w...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Marriage rates are on a decline — in Pennsylvania, in the United States and in the world. Over the last two decades, according to p...

More than 1 million Pennsylvanians rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps, to help pay for food, but the...

Janet Yellen made a stop at a Las Vegas union hall this week as part of President Joe Biden’s desperate effort to tout his administration’s economic a...

As I ponder my eight and a half decades’ journey and how gratifying and rewarding it has been for me and my family, I marvel at the tenacity of today’...

Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward, R-Westmoreland, made the right call in bringing members of the upper chamber back to Harrisburg so...

HARRISBURG — One state agency wants Pennsylvanians to better understand what environmental justice means. The Department of Environmental Protection w...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Our armed forces are shrinking in size and capacity. The current crisis in military recruiting qualifies as a direct threat to U.S....

It was the sort of conduct one usually associates with totalitarian governments: Law enforcement officers swarm a newspaper office and confiscate comp...

Americans often view obesity in cultural terms. However, the National Institutes of Health calls it a disease at an epidemic level and a leading drive...

There’s a lot of talk among House Republicans about impeaching President Joe Biden. But GOP members disagree on whether there is enough evidence to go...

We have a mail thief. Not the kind to alert the police or federal authorities about, but a thief nonetheless. One might call him a cat burglar. He’s a...