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This year’s hottest back-to-school trend is one most students won’t like: cellphone bans. A growing number of districts across the country have enacte...

Last month, for the first time since March 2021, the consumer price index — the indicator of inflation — fell below 3% annual increase , hitting 2.9% ...

The most ominous hour I have spent in the state Capitol came the day three students from Pitt, Penn State and the University of Pennsylvania shared de...

While Kamala Harris hides from unscripted events, Donald Trump can’t stop talking off the cuff. On Monday, the former president gave an interview to E...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Olympic competitors over 40 are inspiring — and less of a rarity than they used to be. Scientists say athletes with extreme staying p...

It took me till the end of our first long cruise in the summer of 1953 to realize what was happening. That brotherhood thing — the unbreakable bond th...

LAS VEGAS (TNS) — The things that make the Olympics incredible are what the left wants to destroy in this country. For the past two weeks, the world’s...

The Olympics, not the games underway in Paris right now, those aren’t what’s making me pause to write this column — although gymnast Simone Biles is p...

By now, we have all heard Gov. Josh Shapiro complain that he is tired of getting his “ass kicked” by other states. He has opined that Pennsylvania is ...

Two bureaus in the U.S. State Department failed to properly track $293 million of humanitarian aid delivered to Afghanistan, meaning the funds could h...

Self-awareness has never been a strong suit of the current White House, but President Joe Biden’s push to overhaul the U.S. Supreme Court may take the...

Have you ever taken a walk all the way down Main Street and crossed over and walked all the way down the other side? On a beautiful day it’s a very ni...

Accountability is crucial to public service. Secret Service Director Kimberly A. Cheatle was right to resign Tuesday after her disastrous, bipartisan ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — It’s been a month like few others in American political history. And now we’ve seen something that most of us have never seen in our ...

PORTVILLE, N.Y. — I think I have found evidence I was always something of a news junkie. It points to times long before I officially became a journali...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — On July 13 my 7-year-old daughter and I were at our first Pittsburgh Riverhounds game when, around 6:20 p.m., my phone buzzed. It w...

New regulations reining in pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), the powerful middlemen between pharmacies and insurance companies, reached Gov. Shapiro’s...

HARRISBURG — Months after an abrupt resignation at the Pennsylvania Game Commission led to the swift appointment of a new executive director, those in...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (TNS) — Say what you will about Donald Trump. I have, too harshly I confess. Seeing him survive an assassin’s attempt on his life rais...

J.D. Vance’s 2016 best-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” has sold 3 million copies and was made into a 2020 movie starring Glenn Close. He’s about to r...