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WASHINGTON — Frequently predicted but never reached, "peak oil" — maximum possible production — has been postponed yet again, this time because of fra...

NEW YORK (AP) — Since coming out a year ago, Caitlyn Jenner has not always been a unifying force in the transgender community. Her latest political re...

"The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulat...

Super Tuesday the singular evolved into “Super Tuesdays” the plural, even coming to be called Super One, Super Two, etc. By this metric the primaries ...

One of the most common jokes in the world and one which continues to this day concerns the number of shoes a woman can accumulate. Jokes by comedians,...

Going to the memorial service on Friday for co-worker Greg Clark, who passed away on March 4, seemed simple enough. Now, as I sit here coughing, conge...

WASHINGTON — Soon after "The Prince of Tides" became a blockbuster movie in 1991, People magazine put the film's leading man, Nick Nolte, on its cover...

WASHINGTON — For those of you salivating — or trembling — at the thought of Hillary Clinton being clapped in handcuffs as she prepares to deliver her ...

This Pennsylvania budget fiasco would be laughable if it weren’t so damn sad. Here we are in March of 2016, without a budget in place for the current ...

The rumor surfaced late last fall. Supposedly, the Allegheny Mountain League and Keystone Shortway Athletic Conference would merge to form a 24-team D...

WASHINGTON — They were just four words, but they denoted something that led to a wonderful swerve in world history. They were words Ronald Reagan repe...

The bully of the playground continued to be in the media spotlight and charging ahead to the Republican nomination for president. In the 11th Republic...

WASHINGTON — So it has come to this: A brokered convention or President Hillary Clinton. These options seem to be what's left to Republicans of consci...

WASHINGTON — Children, gather round and let me tell you about a time before candidates vouched for the size of their, um, endowments on national telev...

DEARBORN, Mich. — It is here in the industrial Midwest, not in the South, where Ted Cruz's audacious theory of the 2016 race was supposed to be put to...

The last time I talked to Greg Clark, he was looking forward to the spring. The spring never came for “Clarkie,” as he was called in the newsroom. Gre...

WASHINGTON — I write today to confess error. A few months back, pondering the ghastly parlor game of choosing between President Donald Trump and Presi...

WASHINGTON — The GOP is not facing a debate over policy, but rather a hostile takeover by a pernicious force. Traditional Republicans are now presente...

Somewhere in the immense expanse of space, amid the uncountable creations that shine and twinkle in its infinite expanse lies the core and source of a...

WASHINGTON — By now it's obvious that lecturing Donald Trump supporters about why they shouldn't vote for him only confirms their convictions. If you'...