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PITTSBURGH (TNS) — When I stopped doing manual labor and became a reporter, I started to pump iron. Even though I no longer hauled shingles up a ladde...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The bizarre torrent of intelligence documents posted on a gamers’ chat server, allegedly by a 21-year-old National Guard technician...

America is an outlier among advanced nations regarding health care. It is far more expensive here, and individuals bear a bigger share of the cost tha...

Imagine the reaction if a federal court a few years back had ruled against a controversial White House executive order, and Trump administration offic...

California’s headlong rush to replace its electricity grid with renewable energy has given the rest of the country a preview of the decarbonized futur...

Politicians are motivated by many things, among them power, fame, idealism, greed — and fear. The last of these is not to be underestimated. It is a p...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing opioid addiction epidemic are public health crises that have cast light on a third — inadequate access to mental...

The state of Illinois recently lost three Fortune 500 companies, and its population has declined by more than 100,000 residents in the past two years....

Pennsylvania lawmakers regularly give away the store to wealthy interests. The theory is that it’s necessary to compete with neighboring states for de...

FDA commissioner Robert Califf said in an interview that aired this week that misinformation is killing Americans — contributing to the fact that our ...

Decades from now, when scholars are debating how the executive branch jumped the rails of any legislative accountability or rational rules, the new Bi...

The Biden administration admits to having made some mistakes — some — in its withdrawal from Afghanistan, but the admission doesn’t come close to ackn...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — What America needs now is a combination of a modern-day Abraham Lincoln and a real-life Ted Lasso. A leader who will inspire all of u...

Medicare’s hospitalization trust fund is on the fast track to insolvency. That has both seniors and future retirees worried. Because our leaders in Wa...

The Pennsylvania Legislature is no stranger to dissension. The state isn’t Democratic or Republican, after all. It isn’t even a muddled, muted purple....

Republicans promised a red wave last November and then got faces full of egg. The precarious margin of control of the House, and the failure of Republ...

The United States Constitution and all the state constitutions establish legislatures and give those legislatures the authority to set their own rules...

When school districts send tax bills, they should include a notice of how much they pay to the scandal-plaguedPublic School Employees Retirement Syste...

It’s a sad time in American history when the Biden administration is more focused on destroying a former president than on the serious problems our co...

Regardless of where you get your odds on who will win the 2024 Democratic Party presidential nomination, the prohibitive favorite — for some strange r...