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PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Statistics for the opioid epidemic are grim enough: 5,000 fatal drug overdoses a year in Pennsylvania; more than 1 million American...

It’s hard to imagine in 2023 that any American would view slavery as anything but unmitigated evil. It’s a testament to the nation’s dangerous decline...

Adopting a state budget is about the only thing that the state constitution requires of legislators. Tuesday, state Rep. Seth Grove of York County, ra...

Regarding the commentary in the July 15 edition of The Era, “The Man Who Governs Gov. Shapiro,” that man may be Democratic state Rep. Matt Bradford, b...

Wow, big news broke last week — President Biden’s campaign is officially going to be headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. For months nervous Democra...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — We don’t know what specific charges special counsel Jack Smith will pursue if former President Donald Trump is indicted on allegati...

Over the past decade, many members of Congress or members of their families have made exquisitely timed stock trades — buying in advance of good news ...

Progressive activists remain committed to tearing down the Supreme Court on one hand as, without irony, they fret about threats to democracy on the ot...

President Joe Biden is returning to his birth state to pitch his newly branded economic vision: Bidenomics.} Though Biden seems eager to paint a rosy ...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — In 1945, Hollywood set in motion its first big-budget movie drama about the making and use of the atomic bomb. Almost immediately ...

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee offered U.S. Supreme Court justices an opportunity to salvage their standing with the American people on W...

Football practice will begin next week at Pennsylvania’s big state-related universities, but the Legislature’s game of political football with the ins...

It’s no secret that recent years have been tough on small businesses and on newspapers. A bipartisan bill, the Community News & Small Business Support...

There’s being fortunate in your enemies, and then there’s having enemies who are helping you take the first step in your political comeback. Donald Tr...

President Joe Biden met with the Israeli president at the White House on Tuesday in an effort to bolster relations between the two longtime and vital ...

Safely reducing recidivism among people released from prison long has been one of the most difficult questions for the criminal justice system and, es...

What is happening — or, rather, not happening — in Harrisburg can be briefly explained in playground terms. The Democratic governor made a decision th...

Last month, the Michigan House passed Bill 4474 — legislation that would expand the state’s existing Ethnic Intimidation Act beyond current protection...

Campaign talk is cheap, but if President Joe Biden meant any of his 2020 talk of uniting Americans, he’s clearly succeeding, just not in the way he in...

A long, cold state budget impasse marks the long, hot summer at the state Capitol. Lawmakers will beat the heat by taking off the rest of the summer —...