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GLENOLDEN —From Erie in the west to Scranton in the east, Pennsylvania is flecked with casualties the stubborn economic sluggishness and relentless gl...

WASHINGTON — In the event of a victory by Donald Trump in November, political analysis will take on a forensic cast. How did establishment politics — ...

WASHINGTON — At long last, Donald Trump has set himself free. At a highly choreographed event Friday, the Republican candidate for president of the Un...

WASHINGTON — American voters have received, we are told, all they are going to get from their presidential candidates in the way of medical informatio...

Why does Mike Pence keep getting himself into such deplorable situations? Donald Trump’s vice-presidential nominee went on CNN on Monday evening, tryi...

JERUSALEM (AP) — In his landmark speech to the Arab world seven years ago, President Barack Obama warned that Israeli settlements on occupied territor...

WASHINGTON — Once upon a time, I thought the repudiation of white supremacists was the easiest layup shot in American politics. Not for the Trump camp...

Even Donald Trump is capable of posing interesting questions, and he asked one of this election’s most important when he declared: “What the hell do y...

"In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. ... Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building. ... For s...

America is on the mend. Witness the good news in the latest version of the nation’s “economic report card”: the Census Bureau’s annual estimates of th...

Move over, kale. The latest dietary craze is crow. A month ahead of Yom Kippur, statements of atonement, regret and contrition are flourishing. “Mista...

WASHINGTON — She didn't want to say she was sick. Hillary Clinton, that is, who recently has suffered coughing fits followed Sunday by a near collapse...

WASHINGTON —Elements of the American right are seized with a fashionable despair, employed as a get-out-the-vote operation. "I think this will be the ...

WASHINGTON — America has had better weeks than the one just past. Only days away from the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Democrat...

WASHINGTON — There are many better reasons to oppose Donald Trump than his rampant sexism. But the brazenness of Trump's recent comments, and the not-...

WASHINGTON — Republican congressional leaders ardently want conservative members of the House to not force a vote on impeaching the IRS commissioner. ...

WASHINGTON — Fifteen years after one of the most vivid and violent days in American history, there is still a debate over what the events of Sept. 11,...

If you’re like me, you regard the decline in book reading as another sign of the cultural rot that is eating away at the American character. Why read ...

WASHINGTON — The president, as he prepared to leave office, was dead broke. So broke, in fact, that he had to take out a loan to get him through the t...

Before a football game against the Green Bay Packers two weeks ago, Colin Kaepernick, San Francisco 49ers quarterback, refused to stand for the pre-ga...