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HARRISBURG , Pa. (AP) — Republican Gov. Tom Corbett had not even been in office for two months when a Franklin and Marshall College poll delivered wha...

WASHINGTON — I have been reading Martin Wolf’s “The Shifts and the Shocks,” a detailed analysis of the 2008-09 financial crisis and its aftermath. Wol...

WASHINGTON — Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Except less regulated. That’s my feeling about so-called ridesharing services such as Uber and L...

Have you ever been to Mississippi? Me neither and why should we? When your better half asks where you should go on vacation the answer would never be ...

WASHINGTON — In the old days, life had many hardships. Among these: the need to wait until Election Day to determine who had won. But now Big Data has...

WASHINGTON — Disloyal or not, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has delivered a root-and-branch critique of President Obama’s approach to the Midd...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Looking back on it, the 2013-14 St. Bonaventure recruiting class didn’t have all that great an impact on the team’s success la...

NEWARK, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie could be forgiven if he had chips on both shoulders as big as those shoulders. This year, the first of his second t...

WASHINGTON — Words have a way of seeping into our vocabulary and, through overuse or distortion, soon begin to lose their meaning. Who could have imag...

So, what did you think of the Bills players carrying off defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz after their 17-14 win over the Lions, where Schwartz was p...

The clip was played over and over again. A week ago Tuesday, the day after his Patriots were eviscerated, 41-14, at Kansas City in a Monday night game...

SAN DIEGO — There is nothing wrong with having a president who likes to debate. But things get awkward when he debates himself. We really don’t want a...

WASHINGTON — Who would have thought: — That gay rights groups’ biggest concern would not be how the Supreme Court would rule on same-sex marriage but ...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Some notes on the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team as it hits Day 4 of official practice: * There are a number of factors...

The Pitt-Bradford volleyball team cruised to a 3-1 victory over the visiting Hilbert Hawks on Tuesday night at the KOA Arena. The Lady Panthers put th...

WASHINGTON — Why is the lineup of prospective GOP presidential candidates beginning to look like, well, a lineup? Chris Christie went to campaign last...

WASHINGTON — Here is what officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health have been telling us: Amer...

DETROIT — With the Bills having lost two straight after opening the season at 2-0, the negative light — and it wasn’t a laser — was shining on General...

WASHINGTON — I was in the jittery Supreme Court chamber on a summer morning in 1992 when the right to abortion was on the line. As the justices took t...

PRINCETON, N.J. — Every 36 years, it seems Jeff Bell disturbs New Jersey’s political order. In 1978, as a 34-year-old apostle of supply-side economics...