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WASHINGTON — Four years after Dodd-Frank became law, the question being asked is whether the country is safe from another financial crisis. It’s the w...

WASHINGTON — Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair came to prominence in the 1990s as an expert in political renovation, transforming the Labour Pa...

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Fifty Julys ago, up the road near San Francisco, in the unfortunately named Cow Palace, the Republican National Convention gave i...

Is it hypocritical for a really, really rich person to object to rising inequality? I’ve been thinking about this in light of the derision the Clinton...

WASHINGTON — Let us now praise anonymous sources. The new White House press secretary got into a familiar old spat with the White House press corps th...

WASHINGTON — The Congressional Budget Office last week issued one of its periodic long-term budget outlooks. Its themes are distressingly familiar. Th...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Since 2011, Pennsylvania Democrats have pointed to the budget-balancing cuts in education aid that GOP Gov. Tom Corbett signed ...

WASHINGTON — The Israeli soldier shot Yousef Bashir in the back in the front yard of his father’s house in Gaza. It was Feb. 18, 2004, a week after Yo...

WASHINGTON — The White House recently put out a 40-page report arguing that the 24 states that have not expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordabl...

HARRISBURG (AP) — The relationship between Gov. Tom Corbett and his fellow Republicans in the Legislature took a turn toward the dysfunctional this we...

WASHINGTON — Hiroo Onoda, the last imperial Japanese soldier to surrender after World War II, hid in a jungle in the Philippines for 29 years, refusin...

WASHINGTON — A few recent developments have revealed the tea party temperament in its most distilled, potent form. Former Republican vice presidential...

WASHINGTON — On either end of Lafayette Square on Monday, you could observe the receding power of the Obama presidency. On the north side, across from...

WASHINGTON — It’s time for a primer on the Highway Trust Fund, which looms as the next battle in Congress’ unending budget wars. Created in 1956 to pa...

WASHINGTON — It should not be necessary to write this column. Lawyers represent clients. Criminal defense lawyers represent clients accused of crimes ...

SAN DIEGO — This Independence Day weekend, memory takes me back to something my father said during a Fourth of July celebration many years ago. Days e...

WASHINGTON — Two 5-4 decisions last week on the final decision day of the Supreme Court’s term dealt with issues that illustrate the legal consequence...

WASHINGTON — The headline — “Poll: Obama Worst President Since World War II” — was both provocative and misleading. The Quinnipiac survey did, indeed,...

OK, I’m ready for that massive escalation of soccer’s popularity in the United States. You know, the one that’s predicted every four years corollary t...

St. Bonaventure University president Sister Margaret Carney, O.S.F., in a story printed Thursday in the Olean Times Herald, said that student enrollme...