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WASHINGTON — What is called “the” 1964 Civil Rights Act is justly celebrated for outlawing racial and other discrimination in employment, “public acco...

Catching up on some recent local developments: St. Bonaventure Athletic Director Steve Watson has recently been on the short list of candidates for th...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Job No. 1 for whoever wins this fall's election for Pennsylvania governor likely will be trying to solve the state government's me...

Tax inversions. Double Irish with a Dutch sandwich. Spinning off tangible assets into real estate investment trusts. Son-of-BOSS shelters. These are a...

WASHINGTON — Responding to the horrifying murder of photojournalist James Foley, Secretary of State John Kerry declared, “ISIL (the Islamic State) and...

SAN DIEGO — Here are four tips for young reporters willing to learn from the mistakes of those caught up in the events of Ferguson, Mo. — Learn how to...

WASHINGTON — The headlines bring the accidentally colliding tale of two governors and, with it, a valuable debate about the proper role — and proper l...

WASHINGTON — In physics, a unified field theory is an attempt to explain with a single hypothesis the behavior of several fields. Its political coroll...

WASHINGTON — The headlines bring the accidentally colliding tale of two governors and, with it, a valuable debate about the proper role — and proper l...

The laboratories of democracy are blowing up. A rash of relatively convoluted, thoroughly unsexy political scandals involving governors is moving thro...

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama, presiding over an unusually dismal post-recession economy, might make matters worse with a distracting crusade against the ...

WASHINGTON — Why should Republicans engage in outreach to African-Americans, even though the level of suspicion is so high and the yield in votes is l...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania’s middle class is getting a lot of attention from the gubernatorial candidates, especially on the subject of taxes, but...

WASHINGTON — So ends a foreign policy experiment that began with two choices in 2011. In that hinge year, President Obama decided to stay out of the S...

WASHINGTON -- Although the Ebola virus might remain mostly confined to West Africa, it has infected the Western imagination. This eruption of uncontro...

SAN DIEGO — I used to have a lot of respect for William Kristol when it came to the issue of immigration. In the 1990s, when California voters approve...

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulatory attack on our economy in central and northwestern Pennsylvania has been growing for some time. ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The halls of Pennsylvania's ornate Capitol were quiet and fairly empty this week, leaving plenty of room for the few tourists t...

WASHINGTON — A prominent AIDS researcher recently recalled for me the panic at the start of the pandemic in the 1980s. Her superiors asked her not to ...

WASHINGTON — “Some of my friends are destitute. Some of them are beggars / But, for me, there’s a subsidy if I spend my whole life preggers.” That was...