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President-elect Joe Biden named his national security team last week. Antony Blinken will be nominated for secretary of state; Jake Sullivan for natio...

In a summer that saw the statues of such American luminaries as Thomas Jefferson and Ulysses S. Grant come crashing to the ground, a new statue, and 4...

WASHINGTON — On behalf of the Trump Administration and in support of America’s military members and families, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. ...

For days, we, the American public, have focused intently on the outcome of our presidential race. But the biggest issue facing our nation, a coronavir...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — This week’s election has been referred to by many as the “election like no other.” I hope that’s true, and what happened this week n...

Plato argued that the longer a democracy endured, the more democratic it would become. America is the world’s oldest democratic republic, and indeed f...

Joe Biden said in one of the Democratic presidential debates that he would work from Day 1 of his presidency to end all fossil fuel production in the ...

To read some of the accounts of Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation process would be to believe history had been turned on its head because her nominatio...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue on Wednesday announced the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $72 mil...

Is the relationship between President Donald Trump and farm country starting to go bad? At first glance, things have never been better. According to r...

In the Sept. 10 edition of The Era, Dr. K. James Evans wrote a disparaging article about our president, Donald J. Trump, accusing him of “irresponsibl...

Ask people what comes to mind with the mention of “Labor Day,” and you will most likely hear two responses: “Back to school” and “Can’t wear white.” T...

Everyone knows that the Declaration of Independence guarantees Americans “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” but less well known is the fac...

Donald Trump took over the Republican Party, but it’s still discernibly the Republican Party. The Republican National Convention was obviously very Tr...

The Democratic National Convention portrayed an America suffering from every possible sort of malady — except urban unrest. Is the country going throu...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Monday, the Trump Administration announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $46 million to i...

The question is this: Do Americans eager for a change know enough now about Joe Biden to vote for him with enthusiasm? Are they persuaded of his decen...

Since Hong Kong’s return to China in 1997, after a century of British rule, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has always had the authority to interven...

At a time when rational discourse could help the country begin to heal, Democrats and Republicans aren’t even speaking the same language. A 2017 study...

SEAWARD AVENUE: Dean Fox reached out to the newsroom and shared a few more points on the history of Seaward Avenue. “Having lived on Seaward Ave as a ...