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It’s been a long 40 years! Not since 1976 has Pennsylvania really mattered in a presidential primary for either major party. This irrelevance has not ...

WASHINGTON — When many relatives of those cruelly murdered in Charleston — by a man who talked and prayed with his victims for an hour before systemat...

WASHINGTON — Unspeakable, unimaginable, incomprehensible and unthinkable are the words we’ve heard and used to describe the horrific murders of nine A...

WASHINGTON — The sloping red line offers a sobering prognosis for American democracy. Contained in a new report on improving the presidential debate p...

WASHINGTON — Now come Greeks bearing the gift of confirmation that Margaret Thatcher was right about socialist governments: “They always run out of ot...

HARRISBURG (AP) — As Pennsylvania lawmakers brace for the annual clash over how to spend billions of taxpayer dollars, the final chapter in a starker ...

If you don’t mind working hard — and partying even harder — why not get a business degree, take a couple of state and federal tests, and become a Wall...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and his Republican allies on trade are thinking of restarting their legislative push in the Senate. It’s test...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has already succeeded by provoking this column. Any form of public communication that puts “Donald Trump” within five words ...

WASHINGTON — If anyone should be feeling an overwhelming sense of Groundhog Day this presidential election, c’est moi. Frankly, I’ve been covering Bus...

WASHINGTON — In January, McDonald’s, leaning against the winds of fashion, said kale would never replace lettuce on its burgers. In May, however, it s...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Never mind lowering the rate of death from air pollution in India and China. Just keeping those rates steady will demand urgent actio...

WASHINGTON — Stealthily demonstrating one of Jeb Bush’s more controversial policy views — the need for Common Core history standards — an “anonymous a...

Items found while cleaning out the notebook: Big 30 Committeeman Craig Funk is busy planning this year’s Don Raabe Big 30 Charities Classic parade, sc...

WASHINGTON — On Saturday, I was impressed with Hillary Clinton. On Sunday, I was disappointed. Something tells me that the rest of this presidential c...

WASHINGTON — It had a familiar ring: “I don’t ever know what people’s motives are,” said former President Bill Clinton, prompting one to pause and con...

WASHINGTON — It has come to this: The chairman of the Federal Election Commission and a fellow Democratic commissioner have filed a petition asking th...

WASHINGTON — Americans should light 800 candles for the birthday of the document that began paving the meandering path to limited government. Magna Ca...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania’s top state senator was leaving Gov. Tom Wolf’s office after a brief meeting with the Democratic chief executive when h...

WASHINGTON — About 2 million years ago, a genetic mutation resulted in the human species — social, restless, but consigned to the middle of the food c...