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SAN DIEGO — With students going back to school, it’s a good time to review the 10 lessons that Americans should have learned if they were paying atten...

WASHINGTON — We want to move out. We want to own our home. We want to marry. We want to work. The problem is, many of us can’t. America’s young adults...

WASHINGTON — From Belgium comes news that a mentally disturbed prisoner is to be granted government help in committing suicide. A typically shallow et...

Can you believe we are in Week 4 already? The season seems to be flying by at an alarming rate, with some trends clearly starting to emerge. First of ...

WASHINGTON — The United States last declared war many wars ago, on June 5, 1942, when, to clarify legal ambiguities during a world conflagration, it d...

WASHINGTON —The headline out of Hillary Clinton’s visit to Iowa was her flagrant flirtation with the prospect of another presidential campaign. The mo...

The NFL has a perception problem. Ray Rice and now, Adrian Peterson have dominated the headlines for all the wrong reasons in 2014, with Greg Hardy an...

When Mark Schmidt got Andrew Nicholson to sign on a similarly chilly fall day in 2007, he did more than land the kid who would lift his program out of...

Floyd Mayweather Jr., who has spent some time in jail for abusing women himself, was speaking some truth when he briefly rose to Ray Rice’s defense la...

(Editor’s note: National syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker, who has appeared on the editorial page of The Era for several years, has been off for s...

WASHINGTON — America’s economy is improving, but the public mood is a lagging indicator. A Pew poll in late August found that Americans recognize that...

WASHINGTON — Congress has a duty — to itself and the country — to debate and authorize President Obama’s military campaign against the Islamic State i...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The get-rich-quick town is going broke. Again. On a recent breezy Saturday night, row after row of slot machines at the Trump Pl...

WASHINGTON — Contrary to some media reports, the Medicare monster hasn’t been tamed. But it has been made a little less unruly. To be precise: Spendin...

WASHINGTON — Tucking into a dish of Scottish haggis is not a task for the fainthearted. There are various haggis recipes, but basically it is sheep’s ...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — One of sports’ longest-standing cliches after a victory is, “it was a team effort.” And that phrase was echoed — time and again —...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Gov. Tom Corbett's decision this week to indefinitely delay the execution of a convicted murderer illustrated some of the practical ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the Senate minority leader, is not a happy man. He didn’t like it when Barack Obama was elected president. Just about th...

WASHINGTON — It was just like the good old days. Scooter Libby was in the front row. Paul Wolfowitz was in the second. And on the stage was Dick Chene...

There is nothing better on this fine planet than Allegheny Mountain League football and anything on the menu at Joe’s Crab Shack. For Friday night ent...