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WASHINGTON — My friend Ezekiel Emanuel, in his typically smart, provocative and bullheaded way, has decreed that he hopes to die at age 75, which woul...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A new national survey estimates that Tom Corbett and Tom Wolf have spent more than $20 million airing more than 30,000 televisi...

With all the hype about Ryan Fitzpatrick facing his former team when the Bills visit Houston on Sunday, an interesting sidebar has been relegated to a...

Who would you say was the greatest New York Yankee ever? For most people that’s like asking which was the greatest plague ever. My personal favorite w...

Behold Week 5 of the high school football season in Pennsylvania. Actually, Week 5 has already gotten under way, with Clarion and Redbank Valley earni...

WASHINGTON — Think of the children. These days, politicians — and their constituents — generally don’t. For all their baby-kissing, politicians know t...

WASHINGTON — The last lunch hour of the summer was like many others outside the White House gates. In Lafayette Square, office workers were eating, or...

WASHINGTON — Without prior knowledge or intent, I recently was inducted into a club I had no interest in joining, especially in light of the $200 init...

WASHINGTON — This is how a Nobel Peace Prize laureate goes to war. He smiles warmly at the members of the U.N. General Assembly. He mentions his grand...

Over his four seasons in Buffalo, Ryan Fitzpatrick emphatically proved one thing ... he wasn’t the franchise quarterback the Bills so desperately need...

Is it OK if we just talk about football this week? I think so. I think everyone is sick and tired of hearing about off-the-field troubles involving ce...

SHAWNEE, Kan. — Tacked to the wall of Greg Orman’s campaign office is a print of a John Steuart Curry painting, “Tragic Prelude,” that hangs in the ca...

WASHINGTON — It is the most important development so far in the 2016 presidential race, at least on the Republican side: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christi...

WASHINGTON — The pursuit of perfection is usually foredoomed, but the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission, which has a latitudinarian understanding of ...

WASHINGTON — Have America’s public schools gotten worse over the years? Americans seem to think so. Every time I write about why attending college is ...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Remember last Sunday when the Bills “won as a team” against Miami? A week later they “lost as a team” against San Diego. With a s...

MIDLAND, Texas — I spent the 16th of September, Mexican Independence Day, with a former president of Mexico — and tried to figure out which U.S. presi...

WASHINGTON — The pursuit of perfection is usually foredoomed, but the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission, which has a latitudinarian understanding of ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Corbett has been trailing in the polls for so long that the political conservation in Pennsylvania is shifting away fr...

WASHINGTON — When Trey Gowdy got the job to run the House’s new Benghazi select committee, there was good reason to fear bad things. Gowdy, a former p...