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BEGINNING: At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Un...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic candidate for vice president, recently said that he thinks that the Electoral College “needs ...

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., will wear that “representative” identification just a tad longer, seeing as how she was stomped to smithereens in a recent bi...

Shine up that “Profile in Courage” award — Liz Cheney and her massive ego will be along soon to claim it. But that’s about all Cheney will have. Chene...

“It’s a slip, not a fall,” Abraham Lincoln said after his loss in his legendary 1858 Illinois Senate contest against Stephen Douglas. Liz Cheney appar...

“The real question today is not when human life begins, but what is the value of human life?” President Ronald Reagan asserted this on the 10th annive...

Chances are, deluded mass murderer Payton Gendron doesn't actually know any Black people to speak of. According to the 2020 census, his hometown of Co...

The rhinoceros is second only to elephants as the largest land mammal in the world. Rhinos are solitary animals but there are exceptions. They do form...

Divorce usually isn’t a good idea, and that’s especially true of a nearly 250-year-old continental nation. A cadre of apocalyptic writers on the right...

Statues have been a sticking point in the last year or so. It seems as though almost everyone who was hero enough to have a memorial to their contribu...

It was a thing of beauty: a light blue, shining sky, a magnificent hymn, a powerful benediction, poetry, patriotic music and a speech in which Preside...

If the 2020 presidential election tells us anything, it’s that there appears to be space for a major new political party. Exceptions abound, but gener...

On Sept. 11, 2001, a field near Shanksville became a shrine — both battlefield and resting place for the passengers and crew of United 93, the fourth ...

DAR ST. MARYS — The Penn-Elk Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution met for its February meeting at the home of Phyllis Cook, St. Marys. ...

CHIEF : It’s President’s Day. We’re sure most people can name the first president, but how much do you know about the commanders in chief of the U.S.?...

MR. PRESIDENT : Who was the tallest president? The smallest? The first to ride in a train? Who refused to use a telephone? We found these answers on L...

WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump, with his feral cunning, knew. The oleaginous Mike Pence, with his talent for toadyism and appetite for obsequiousness, cou...

ABE: Feb. 12 is a big day in Abraham Lincoln history, according to the Associated Press, which reported that on this day: • On Feb. 12, 1809, Abraham ...

LONDON FOG: After reading Thursday’s column on the London Smog, Ray Saunders of Bradford called with his own story about the fog in London. “After the...

TEMPE, Ariz. —Encouraging developments are as welcome as they are rare in colleges and universities that cultivate diversity in everything but thought...