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HARRISBURG (AP) — The Pennsylvania Legislature will be led by massive Republican majorities — including the biggest House GOP majority in more than 50...

WASHINGTON — Western reflection about human nature and the politics of the human condition began with the sunburst of ancient Greece 2,500 years ago, ...

WASHINGTON — Without QE, will the stock market tank? Count me a skeptic. QE refers to “quantitative easing,” the Federal Reserve’s multitrillion-dolla...

SAN DIEGO — Mexico is suffering a national tragedy, the details of which make the Day of the Dead look like a walk in the park. And, for some Mexican ...

WASHINGTON — So it turns out there is an Obamacare death panel after all. It has nine members and it operates out of a marble building directly across...

WASHINGTON — When Abraham Lincoln first presented a version of the Emancipation Proclamation to his Cabinet, Secretary of State William Seward warned ...

There are five matchups this week where each team boasts a winning record —Buffalo-Miami, Seattle-Kansas City, Philadelphia-Green Bay, Detroit-Arizona...

WASHINGTON — The line between consensual sex and sexual assault is not always comfortably clear. Especially when alcohol is involved. Especially in th...

SAN DIEGO — Republicans are enjoying a well-deserved victory lap. But, when it comes to the touchy subjects of Hispanic outreach and immigration refor...

WASHINGTON — Back in July, when President Obama was deciding whether to take executive action on immigration before the midterm elections, I got into ...

WASHINGTON — A week after the midterm elections, Republicans are still browsing through the jewelry store of their victories, admiring this bauble and...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — What makes a bad loss that much worse? When it’s a season-ender and the game was given away. Oh, the schedule says the Bills stil...

WASHINGTON — Now that two of the last three Democratic presidencies have been emphatically judged to have been failures, the world’s oldest political ...

WASHINGTON — Is the government’s gridlock about to be dislodged? Imagine the capital as a giant set of pulleys and levers, operating at cross purposes...

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama is a gifted politician. But a president is judged by the gifts he leaves behind. Following his fourth national election as p...

Maintenance workers at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Pa., airport shot and killed a bear and her three cubs. The bears had crawled under a perimeter fenc...

The historic scope of Tom Corbett’s loss on Tuesday must be understood to place it in any meaningful perspective. In losing to Democrat Tom Wolf, he b...

WASHINGTON — “I hear you,” President Obama said to the voters who gave Democrats an electoral drubbing in Tuesday’s midterm elections. But their messa...

It might be the law of unintended consequences, but an announcement by the National Football League seemingly helps make the Pegulas’ case for ending ...

WASHINGTON — Unlike the dog that chased the car until, to its consternation, he caught it, Republicans know what do with what they have caught. Having...