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SAN DIEGO — Donald Trump insists he’s no politician. Now, after what happened at a dramatic news conference in Iowa, we know that Jorge Ramos is no jo...

Merry Christmas, Mr. Commissioner. Enjoy your lump of coal. Even though the holiday is nearly four months off, we already know what Roger Goodell will...

WASHINGTON — Globalization lives. A fascinating but little-noted aspect of the recent financial turmoil is how much it’s been an international event. ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump riddle continues to compel: How has he managed to successfully execute such a mass deception? He's by no definition a conservat...

WASHINGTON — “I don’t want it to be about me,” Donald Trump explained at a recent event in Nashville. In other news: War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery....

Recently the Huffington Post published a list of the most liberal governors in the nation compiled by the website Inside Government. Surprising some, ...

WASHINGTON — Could Joe Biden be the man for this season? The vice president has been running for president since Hillary Clinton was first lady of Ark...

HARRISBURG (AP) — With Attorney General Kathleen Kane battling criminal charges and increasingly isolated from Pennsylvania’s legal and law enforcemen...

SAN DIEGO — Brittany Maynard was soon to die. The question was whether she could do so on her own terms, as a last act of autonomy. Dr. Lynette Cederq...

It was the biggest event in the Keystone State since John Hancock put his John Hancock on the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The Pennsylvania Li...

SAN DIEGO — Just when I thought Chris Matthews didn’t have anything helpful, original or insightful to say about immigration, he surprises me by offer...

WASHINGTON — Are we ready for the “Internet of Things”? Probably not. The phrase — coined in 1999 by researcher Kevin Ashton while working for Procter...

WASHINGTON — First was the dot-com bubble, then the housing bubble. Now comes the commodities bubble. We don’t fully understand the stock market’s cur...

WASHINGTON — Every sulfurous belch from the molten interior of the volcanic Trump phenomenon injures the chances of a Republican presidency. After Don...

WASHINGTON — We’re going to have Donald Trump around for a while, which prompts the question: What is Trumpism? Or, to put it more tartly, is there a ...

This week is the 10th anniversary of the destruction of the southeastern gulf coast by Hurricane Katrina. More than 1,800 people died. There is no est...

CHICAGO (AP) — On an abandoned Chicago railway line cutting between the treetops, bike commuters zip by walkers and joggers, all traversing a ribbon o...

WASHINGTON — It has come to this: The GOP, formerly the party of Lincoln and ostensibly the party of liberty and limited government, is being defined ...

HARRISBURG (AP) — The 2016 campaign for Pennsylvania attorney general is off to an uncertain start as candidates and prospective candidates line up wi...

WASHINGTON — Dear Secretary Clinton: Your email problem has mushroomed from a self-inflicted nuisance to a self-inflicted wound. The reason is simple:...