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WASHINGTON — This week’s meeting between Pope Francis and President Obama holds great promise in a time of turmoil, though not necessarily in the ways...

Put another hotdog on the barbie. The popular ballpark concession might consist of kangaroo and dingo when the 2014 Major League Baseball season opens...

The decade was the 1960s and at a home in a Twin Tiers’ community lived an older woman and her son, who had Down syndrome. A sad, yet common aspect of...

Sometimes a clever catchphrase can work too well. Backlash against the name of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s “Ban Bossy” campaign threatens to overwh...

WASHINGTON — Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair is a cad, a bully and a boor. Once a rising star in the Army and former deputy commander of U.S. forces in so...

“Boys from another school pulled out the severed head of a classmate while fishing in a pond. His whole family had died. Had they eaten him first? Or ...

You’ve seen my thoughts on each region, now it’s time to add a little bit of local flavor. I know there will be many of you making the trip to Buffalo...

Some bits and pieces on St. Bonaventure basketball ... both genders: The coaches, players and many Bonnie fans are miffed that Mark Schmidt’s squad di...

WASHINGTON — As Winston Churchill might have said, the battle for Crimea is over. The battle for the idea of Europe is about to begin. Russia — as one...

WASHINGTON — “Once an agent, always an agent.” This was the terse response of Nina Khrushcheva on New Year’s Eve 1999 when her mother commented favora...

WASHINGTON — Watching Dianne Feinstein tear into the Central Intelligence Agency on the Senate floor the other day brought to mind a 1970s-era televis...

It’s time to take a look at the East and West regions. Widely considered to be the weakest two regions in the tournament, there is still plenty of int...

WASHINGTON — Someone who is determined to disbelieve something can manage to disregard an Everest of evidence for it. So Barack Obama will not temper ...

Welcome to Part 1 of 3 of my NCAA Tournament preview. Today, I’ll take a look at the Midwest and South Regions, Wednesday will feature the East and We...

Greg Gumbel sounded a bit surprised by what he was reading ... on more than one occasion. “And Connecticut will be facing 10th-seeded Saint Joseph’s, ...

WASHINGTON — There’s nothing quite so helpful as a fatwa and threats of a Christian boycott to create buzz in advance of new movie. "Noah,” scheduled ...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Marijuana was the issue that set John Hanger apart from the other Democratic candidates for governor, and proponents of legalizing t...

Did you do anything exciting lately? If I posed that question to Mohammed Rashid, the Pakistani would boast he set a world record by cracking 155 waln...

Cameron County’s Eric Spehalski headlines this week’s Don Raabe Big 30 Charities Classic roster additions. Spehalski, 5-11, 170 pounds, was a wide rec...

WASHINGTON — To read about the Duke University freshman turned adult film star is to feel nostalgic for the bygone age of dormitory parietals that bar...