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Much attention has focused on the Democrats historic sweep of Pennsylvania’s judicial offices in November’s recent statewide election — in particular ...

AMES, Iowa — Watching the Democratic primary contest can feel like reading a bad murder mystery. You may encounter some plot twists and surprises, but...

WASHINGTON — As careful as we should be in drawing lessons from tragedy — and there is something particularly disgraceful in mounting a political soap...

DES MOINES, Iowa — You can't drive far in these parts without seeing Ben Carson on a billboard, looking more like a man of the cloth than of the opera...

WASHINGTON — The vetting of Ben Carson is focused in the wrong direction. Yes, when a candidate's raison d'etre is biography, the accuracy of his purp...

WASHINGTON — Yale's president, Peter Salovey, dealt with the Crisis of the Distressing Email about Hypothetical Halloween Costumes about as you would ...

HARRISBURG (AP) — It is the $2 billion question: Which Pennsylvania homeowners will get the biggest benefit from a higher state sales tax? Gov. Tom Wo...

At one time, people placed carved pumpkins with a candle inside on their front porches to announce the beginning of the Halloween season. And then it ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's quest to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, perhaps by moving some detainees to the United States, h...

WASHINGTON — The fourth Republican presidential debate was, by most accounts, a bit of a snoozer. But in a good way. There was less interpersonal conf...

WASHINGTON — Trigger warning: I'm about to commit a micro-aggression. Maybe a macro one. Here goes: Yale students worked up over an email about Hallow...

WASHINGTON — Welcome to the vetting season, in which presidential candidate resumes are pumped full of air, submerged in water, and tested for bubbles...

WASHINGTON — Were the lungs the seat of wisdom, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly would be wise, but they are not and he is not. So it is not astonishing th...

After reading the Associated Press article carried in The Era on Monday, Nov. 2 entitled “Many Teen Sex Assault Victims Get Subpar ER Care, study says...

WASHINGTON — In the annals of presidential politics, it's hard to recall anyone who has tried so hard to be so ordinary. The fascinating story of Dr. ...

One of the basic tenets of journalism ethics and practices is that reporters must keep their distance from news sources. They’re allowed to be friendl...

WASHINGTON —If the truth sets us free, then Bush family members should be warbling from rooftops. At least one Bush, patriarch George H.W. Bush, has b...

BERLIN — Abdulela Alhajjar is a big fan of Angela Merkel, which is simultaneously the German chancellor's finest tribute and her biggest threat. Like ...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is just one symptom of today's cultural pathology of self-validating vehemence with blustery certitudes substituting for evi...

HARRISBURG (AP) — The results from Tuesday's state Supreme Court elections were barely in when triumphant Democrats began talking about what the court...