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WASHINGTON — Some of America’s closest friends in Africa have turned with a vengeance on gay people. In Nigeria, President Goodluck Jonathan recently ...

WASHINGTON — I must need to smoke pot. How else to explain why I wasn’t getting President Obama’s interview on “Between Two Ferns,” the Web show hoste...

The oil and gas industry, the nation’s chambers of commerce, and politicians who are dependent upon campaign contributions from the industry and the c...

BROOKLYN — Almost immediately, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team was ready to look ahead. It was only minutes after the Bonnies had dropped an...

WASHINGTON — What’s been said of confession — that it is good for one’s soul but bad for one’s reputation — can also be true of testifying to Congress...

WASHINGTON — For Republicans to block one of President Obama’s nominees is dog-bites-man non-news. For members of the president’s party to defect is m...

Matt DeGolier is optimistic about the sport of hockey in Bradford. This past weekend, DeGolier and his colleagues concluded the second full year of yo...

Liz Coppella and Payton Ambrose came out of the game late in Bradford’s 52-30 loss to Elizabeth Forward in the first round of the PIAA Class AAA playo...

WASHINGTON — When the going gets tough, well, why not just make the going easier? This seems to be the conclusion of the College Board, which administ...

HARRISBURG (AP) — The simmering feud between establishment Republicans in Pennsylvania and the party’s wing of anti-establishment conservatives is exp...

A bicycle, a hand-me-down fishing vest, and a rod and reel provided the access and means to lots of great fishing. Yes, there were trips taken to the ...

WASHINGTON — With the facts on the ground now established in Crimea — several thousand facts in the form of Russian troops — the question now becomes:...

WASHINGTON — Kerry Kennedy was just acquitted, and rightly so, of “drugged driving” — she mistook a sleeping pill for her thyroid medication and conke...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — In today’s unforgiving politics, both parties often think: “If at first you don’t succeed, don’t darken our door again.” Ken...

Eventually, the women’s basketball coaches in the Atlantic 10 will figure it out. Maybe. After all, how many times does Jim Crowley have to be named A...

If Arizona legislators were being perfectly candid, they would have labeled their so-called Religious Freedom Restoration Act precisely what it was, t...

With the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team off until Saturday, here’s a brief update on how its three signed recruits for next season have been fa...

WASHINGTON — One hundred years after a spark in Central Europe ignited a conflagration from which the world has not yet recovered and from which Europ...

HARRISBURG (AP) — A major challenge facing Gov. Tom Corbett as he tries to get a 2014-15 budget approved is figuring out what changes can pass the Leg...

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s new outreach initiative to help at-risk boys of color — “My Brother’s Keeper” — is cause for cheer. It isn’t that we ha...