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Donald Trump is a dominant presence in our public life, although one that his adversaries have trouble accepting and processing. The left is still loo...

WASHINGTON — In the wake of President Trump's decision to appoint John Bolton as his national security adviser and Mike Pompeo as secretary of state, ...

They say that heroes come and go, but legends are forever. Susan Evans, a champion in the fight against ovarian cancer, has had her name immortalized ...

TODAY : OK, historians, today we’re thinking of you. The Associated Press offers a “this day in history” feature that we wanted to share. There’s some...

WASHINGTON — The world is agog at Donald Trump's head-snapping foreign policy reversal. He runs on a platform of America First. He renounces the role ...

WASHINGTON -- Though Republicans profess to despise Big Government, especially the federal kind, it seems that what they really don't like is Democrac...

OLEAN, N.Y. — Students at Southern Tier Catholic School and Archbishop Walsh Academy were visited by a noted alum of the high school this past week. E...

WASHINGTON — It's a Watergate-era cliche that the cover-up is always worse than the crime. In the Mike Flynn affair, we have the first recorded instan...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump seems to think he's still on his reality TV show shouting, "You're fired!" while President Stephen Bannon is busy drafting e...

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., plans to vote against nominating Rex Tillerson as the next Secretary of State next week, saying the two men have “basic di...

WASHINGTON — The flurry of bold executive orders and of highly provocative Cabinet nominations (such as a secretary of education who actually believes...

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama did not go out quietly. His unquiet final acts were, in part, overshadowed by a successor who refused to come in quietly and...

He flabbergasts the Human Race By gliding on the water's face With ease, celerity and grace; But if he ever stopped to think Of how he did it, he woul...

WASHINGTON — When Barack Obama moves two miles from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to 2446 Belmont Road in Washington's Kalorama neighborhood, he will live ...

We've come a long way from Daniel Patrick Moynihan excoriating the U.N.'s 1975 "Zionism is racism" resolution in one of the finer exhibits of righteou...

WASHINGTON — One of the hallmarks of our democratic system is its commitment to the peaceful transition of power. This practice comes with two importa...

WASHINGTON — The fall of Aleppo just weeks before Barack Obama leaves office is a fitting stamp on his Middle East policy of retreat and withdrawal. T...

WASHINGTON — In the Trump movie now playing in the American theater, connecting all the dots requires the artistry of a mapmaker and the insight of a ...

It’s snowy, cold and windy, hardly a surprise for Bradford in December. It feels good at the end of the day to snuggle up in a warm bed to fall asleep...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A senior Afghan official on Tuesday warned the Taliban against staying out of the peace process with the government in Kabul...