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PRESIDENTS: The U.S. Department of the Interior shared a photograph of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial on Thursday on its blog in anticipation of...

WASHINGTON — The minutes seem like hours in the Trump administration. Every day brings a fresh deluge of alarming developments. Has it only been three...

WASHINGTON — There are many people to thank for the coming accession of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Donald Trump for winning the election. Hill...

Hey, Republicans: Ready to take him literally yet? Two days after the election, I spoke with Grover Norquist, a conservative tax activist who had made...

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., said he plans to vote “no” on the nominations of U.S. Rep. Tom Price for Secretary of Health and Human Services and Steven...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump, the billionaire real estate investor who began his run for the presidency and was one of the clowns who campaigned on promi...

Since the arrival of the Trump administration, local leaders have become largely optimistic about what is yet to come in the President's first term. T...

WASHINGTON — After every major Trump speech or event, the person I was before it seems desperately naive. I have been a consistent Trump critic, but m...

SENECA FALLS — On a spring-like day in the middle of winter, they came by the thousands to the Birthplace of the Women’s Rights Movement. Young and ol...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Echoing the anti-establishment and populist rhetoric from his campaign rallies, the 45 th President of the United States of America...

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., announced on Wednesday that he will vote “no” on three of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees, following delib...

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...

GENEVA, N.Y. — Bob Hayssen and Phil Beckley hopped into Hayssen’s Hummer this morning for a road trip to Friday’s inauguration of Donald Trump as Pres...

DEATH & TAXES: One reader writes, “As reported in the Era, Jan. 2, 2017, page A-3, Pennsylvania wholesale tax on gasoline increased by 8 cents a gallo...

WASHINGTON — Viewing 2016 in retrospect — doing so is unpleasant, but less so than was living through it — the year resembles a china shop after a vis...

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...

Whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump was elected, the environment is going to suffer. Both have supported horizontal fracking, the destruction of t...

WASHINGTON — Democrats spent the first two decades of the post-Cold War era rather relaxed about Russian provocations and revanchism. President Obama ...

COUDERSPORT — Potter County Commissioners passed a half-mill property tax increase at Thursday’s meeting, and chose to continue waiving the per capita...

SMETHPORT — The Smethport Area School Board re-elected its two top officers Wednesday during the annual reorganizational meeting. Director Dan Wertz w...