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WASHINGTON — The spectacular strangeness of this presidential election may require a new display in Ripley's Odditorium of believe-it-or-nots. Among t...

"It's not the will to win that matters. ... It's the will to prepare to win that matters." — Paul "Bear" Bryant HOUSTON — People here at Ted Cruz's ca...

Rural Pennsylvania's chances to ever have a strong economy again are severely at risk. Gov. Tom Wolf filled the leadership posts of two agencies — the...

Let’s not be coy. There’s a certain population in this country that expects unlimited government handouts despite its piggish unwillingness to work. D...

WASHINGTON — In a campaign that has involved talk of revisiting the Geneva Conventions, rewriting the 14th Amendment and rounding up and expelling 11 ...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is learning how hard it is to pretend to be something he's not. Case in point: Since deciding to run for president — and may...

WASHINGTON — Perhaps the laws of political gravity are about to take hold in the case of Donald Trump. But the lesson of this appalling primary season...

WASHINGTON — Pitcher Jim Bouton said: "Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many...

With all of the hype surrounding the 2016 presidential elections, most Pennsylvanians know that when they enter the voting booth on Primary Day, April...

WASHINGTON — Republican peculiarities in this political season are so numerous and lurid that insufficient attention is being paid to this: The probab...

Just when you thought Gov. Tom Wolf had put his veto pen away and was done creating crises for the people of Pennsylvania, he chose to veto another bi...

WASHINGTON — So what are we to do? This is a familiar question to opinion writers. Translation: You've told us what's wrong with everything — and we a...

WASHINGTON — If Donald Trump becomes the Republican nominee, one of the main reasons will be that many in the conservative movement found him acceptab...

WASHINGTON — This may sound strange coming from someone who doesn't expect Hillary Clinton to be indicted and doesn't think she should be, but I've be...

WASHINGTON — When a presidential election devolves into a hydrant-watering contest between leading contenders about the relative attractiveness of the...

WASHINGTON — Presidential campaigns incite both hypochondria and euphoria, portraying the present as grimmer than it is and the future as grander than...

HARRISBURG (AP) — In the days after Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf finally put a stake in the Pennsylvania budget impasse that has captured the Capitol for ...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump, you might want to learn something about L.B. Sullivan and the Supreme Court case he inspired. Sullivan was a city commissio...

NASSARIYA, Egypt (AP) — In the video, the Egyptian Christian teens laugh playfully as a couple of them kneel down, imitating Muslim prayers, then anot...

On April 26 the voters of Pennsylvania finally get their say in the 2016 train wreck more formally known as the Republican presidential nomination pro...