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WASHINGTON -- This was a bittersweet Independence Day for me. Not the Fourth of July. In our family, the weekend ushered in a different sort of indepe...

WASHINGTON — On July 9, 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was first publicly read to the citizens of New York — “We hold these truths to be s...

Some thoughts on the sad passing of Dick Danielson and an update on a pair of Bolivar twins who have made good in another state: My introduction to Da...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — With lawmakers' rocky spring session bleeding deeper into summer, nobody knows what Gov. Tom Corbett will do with the no-new-ta...

Unless your life is centered upon an iPhone, an iPad, and an iEverything else, there is a possibility you may have actually bought a postage stamp, wr...

WASHINGTON — Justice is blind, and for about 10 minutes Wednesday she couldn’t hear or speak either. Ahmed Abu Khattala, alleged mastermind of the Ben...

WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney said it, and on Monday the Supreme Court upheld it: Corporations are people, my friend. The 2012 Republican presidential nomi...

WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney said it, and on Monday the Supreme Court upheld it: Corporations are people, my friend. The 2012 Republican presidential nomi...

WASHINGTON — Even when Supreme Court decisions are unanimous, the justices can be fiercely divided about fundamental matters, as was demonstrated by t...

When my travels take me away from Pennsylvania, it is always a great adventure for me and my nature photography. One never knows what I might encounte...

It would be easy to speculate that Christine Lisi’s professional pinnacle came the minute she was hired as a full-time update anchor by ESPN Radio. Af...

WASHINGTON — The summary moment of Barack Obama’s foreign policy came in August 2013 during a consequential stroll. Walking on the South Lawn of the W...

SAN DIEGO — We already knew the immigration issue was a tough one for Republicans. They have a hard time opposing legal status for the undocumented wi...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Call it "the big gimmick." An approximately $29 billion state government operating budget under negotiation in the Legislature is li...

WASHINGTON — Republicans, after years of squabbling with President Obama, have decided to resolve their differences with him according to a time-honor...

WASHIGNTON —When I worked as a Senate aide in the early 1990s, the state of New York was represented by two figures who could hardly have been more di...

WASHINGTON — Chris McDaniel, 41, the flawed paladin of the tea party persuasion who in Mississippi’s Republican Senate primary failed to wrest the nom...

WASHINGTON — “Raise your right hand,” Rep. Darrell Issa ordered IRS Commissioner John Koskinen on Monday night. Koskinen raised his right hand to the ...

WASHINGTON — Noted management expert and IRS Commissioner John Koskinen was apparently called out of retirement — like the Ted Williams of evasive, un...

Pennsylvanians will experience increased rainfall and floods if data analysis by a Penn State meteorologist and long-term projections by a fisheries b...