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My father’s not doing well. Things like this have to be faced, but that doesn’t make it any easier. In the empty moments between tears, resignation, p...

WASHINGTON — As if more proof were needed about congressional dysfunction, witness the spectacle of the last two weeks, in which the Senate managed to...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Raising taxes will be a battle among Pennsylvania state lawmakers as they face Gov. Tom Wolf’s call to correct a persistent budget d...

WASHINGTON — The rate of dog ownership is rising ominously. How can a profusion of puppies be worrisome? A report from the Raymond James financial ser...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Tim Kenney’s message was hard to miss. St. Bonaventure’s new athletic director, at his introductory press conference last Thur...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ideas fly from Gov. John Kasich like sparks from a flint. While explaining his prison reforms, he interrupts himself midsentence — hi...

WASHINGTON — The effective kickoff of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign was an act of deck clearing so breathtaking, so brazen, that it remains ...

Can I tell you how much I enjoyed Tuesday’s Sabres game? Now I’m not a hockey junkie ... especially during the regular season. At this time of year, m...

The bubbles have burst, the arguing over seeds is done and it’s time to play some hoops. Although there have already been four ‘first round’ games pla...

WASHINGTON — It is rare for a work of sociology to leave readers choking back emotion. Max Weber and Emile Durkheim were not known for writing tearjer...

WASHINGTON — Amid all the verbiage about Hillary Clinton’s email, one irrefutable fact emerges: Polls will drive us crazy before the Clintons do. The ...

WASHINGTON — Wages are among our most scrutinized economic indicators. It’s no secret why. We’d all like a pay raise. But there’s a second, less-recog...

WASHINGTON — On March 2, the story broke that Hillary Clinton had possibly violated email regulations while secretary of state. You could almost hear ...

Talk about being under tremendous pressure. Lafayette sports information director Phil LaBella has a lot of work in a short amount of time. But the fo...

HARRISBURG (AP) — The success of Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to make Pennsylvania’s school funding system fairer could hinge on this: Whether he can convince...

WASHINGTON — College acceptance letters go out — actually, college admissions web portals go live — in a few weeks. This column was originally intende...

WASHINGTON — In the mid-1960s, a social scientist noted something ominous that came to be called “Moynihan’s Scissors”: Two lines on a graph crossed, ...

WASHINGTON — Fed bashing — strident criticism of the Federal Reserve — is back in style, and it’s taken a new turn. Traditionally, it’s been a liberal...

The Tea Party wing of the Republican party thinks House speaker John Boehner is a rhino. Not the thick-skinned horned mammal that lives in Africa. Thi...

WASHINGTON — The true scandal of the Tom Cotton letter to Iranian leaders is the manner in which the Republican Senate apparently conducts its affairs...