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Three takeaways from the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 4-3 win over Washington Saturday night at PPG Paints Arena: Unlikely offensive contributors Evgeni Malki...

It seems more and more sports personalities from my youth are passing away, and they remind me of each of our mortalities, especially when it’s somebo...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania has long suffered from a tax system that is both highly regressive, taking a larger share of income from low-income and mode...

Nothing gets done without energy. From powering computers, credit card machines, or heavy manufacturing machinery to providing the electricity needed ...

When you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. That’s the gist of critics’ arguments against the creation of a government-run tax preparation ser...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Twenty years ago, when I first hired him in Baghdad, my Iraqi interpreter and driver Salam was thrilled that the Americans had to...

During his infamous “mission accomplished” speech in May 2003 from the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of San Diego, President George W. Bush announ...

If Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts about his supposedly impending arrest make it feel like our politics are about to reach another level of insanity...

Whatever else it produced, this week’s visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Moscow did not advance the cause of a just peace in Ukraine. If anythi...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — Sen. Ted Cruz is known for having strong opinions, many of which are needlessly bombastic; some of which are best ignored. B...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — March must be a bad month for civil liberties. In addition to the third anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdowns, it’s the 20th anniv...

A state senator wants to expand a law covering compensation for police and firefighters hurt in the line of duty, but his colleagues should go along o...

Nearly two decades after Congress approved the invasion of Iraq, the legislature is preparing to rescind that vote, as well as a prior war authorizati...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — For those of you who think the culture wars do not affect regular people, I am here to tell you they do. In the past I have written t...

Conspiracy theorists who claim falsely that the nation's electoral systems are awash in vote fraud often note that voter registration lists contain th...

I get a little peeved when I hear someone, especially the younger generation, say they’re bored. There are more things to do out there than you can im...

What do Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Republican governor of Arkansas, and Michelle Lujan Grisham, the Democratic governor of New Mexico, have in common...

It’s Sunshine Week across America, and not because daylight saving time ensures brighter evenings. The week is an annual observance of the crucial rol...

In its rich history, the Archbishop Walsh boys basketball program has produced over a dozen 1,000-point scorers, three Big 30 scoring champions, two B...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — As Russia’s war on Ukraine enters its second year, more and more Americans are asking when it will end. The morally correct respo...