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WASHINGTON — Watching Hillary Clinton beaming sidewise on stage as Elizabeth Warren taunted Donald Trump brought the Wrigley twin ditty to mind: Doubl...

WASHINGTON — In his resignation speech following Great Britain's vote to divorce from the European Union, Prime Minister David Cameron claimed several...

WASHINGTON — How do you write a platform for a party whose candidate's positions span the unfortunate gamut from nonexistent to offensive to flatly at...

WASHINGTON — With Britain's vote to leave the European Union, did Donald Trump just win the presidential election? On the surface, this may seem an od...

When I last interviewed Dan Oaks II of Bradford three years ago, he had set the East Coast Timing Association national track record for motorcycle spe...

HARRISBURG (AP) — It's the big head-scratcher in the Pennsylvania Capitol. House Democrats this month helped pass bills that advanced a couple long-so...

WASHINGTON — The Leave campaign won the referendum on withdrawing Britain from the European Union because the arguments on which the Remain side relie...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Britain's vote to leave the European Union adds a heavy dose of uncertainty to a world economy that is still struggling to r...

Where religion is concerned, Donald Trump’s bigotry is his biggest problem, but his ignorance comes in a close second. We already know that Trump will...

WASHINGTON — Oh God — and I mean the entreaty seriously — the Trump/evangelical summit in New York was just as bad as some of us feared. More than 900...

As we pulled out of the boat launch you couldn’t help but quiver with anticipation. It was the kind of morning that experienced fishermen dream of. A ...

You can add health care to the causes of growing wage inequality in America. There’s a largely unknown paradox at work. Companies that try to provide ...

"There's an old adage about a vat of wine standing next to a vat of sewage. Add a cup of wine to the sewage, and it is still sewage. But add a cup of ...

If Donald Trump should become president, don’t expect his administration to be a transparent one or one that tolerates dissent and believes in the Fir...

WASHINGTON — If you turned on cable TV news Monday, chances are good that you caught Corey Lewandowski fibbing that he doesn't have a clue why Donald ...

WASHINGTON — When it comes to the chaotic, flailing, floundering Trump campaign, many senior Republicans are in a state of panic. Will this become a s...

WASHINGTON — Along came the alligator. A horrifying story at the end of a horrifying stretch, a heartbreaking coda befitting a nation on perpetual edg...

WASHINGTON — The arguments for and against gun control are so familiar by now, we might as well hit replay and skip the debate. In the wake of the hor...

WASHINGTON — Months before the 1940 Republican convention nominated Wendell Willkie, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Theodore Roosevelt's waspish daughter,...

The American people know extremism when they see it. This is very unfortunate for Donald Trump. And it is a nightmare for Republican leaders who see m...