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WASHINGTON — In his satirical solution to Ireland’s prolific poor, especially among Catholics whose fish diet was thought to enhance fertility, Jonath...

HARRISBURG — In one of Pennsylvania’s defining legislative battles this century, then-Gov. Ed Rendell won passage of a $1 billion tax package, and it ...

WASHINGTON — For all the understandable attention devoted to removing the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House, a civil rights struggl...

Voters may have turned Gov. Tom Corbett out of office last November, but his higher education funding legacy remains. The State System of Higher Educa...

The seven-nation agreement aimed at halting Iran’s progress toward a nuclear arsenal has been criticized as merely delaying the inevitable, but that i...

WASHINGTON — At first, it seemed like an Internet hoax. A doctor, over a glass of wine and a salad, coldly describes the extraction and monetization o...

HARRISBURG — Divided government may entertain people who watch the news, but it frustrates Pennsylvanians who desire solutions without bickering. We u...

WASHINGTON — In South Carolina these days, no one speaks his name. The 21-year-old man-boy, who allegedly murdered nine people and incited unity inste...

WASHINGTON — Ask Sen. Lindsey Graham his greatest political accomplishment, and the South Carolina Republican does not point to any individual piece o...

WASHINGTON — As the world and the U.S. Congress examine the Iran deal’s fine print, the strategic large print is clear enough. “Obama wants this (deal...

Katie’s time If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? The jury is still out on that old chestnut and may c...

AVON, N.C. (AP) — It’s the golden hour, right before sunset, when the light is soft and pretty. The landscape looks like a postcard. Tourists stroll, ...

WASHINGTON — The past may not be past, as William Faulkner once put it. But it sure seems to be leaving. As I watched the broadcast of the Confederate...

WASHINGTON — Today’s most interesting debate about governance concerns a 110-year-old Supreme Court decision. Two participants in this debate are the ...

HARRISBURG (AP) — It’s almost time to get serious at the Pennsylvania Capitol. Almost, because this is only the second week that the state government ...

WASHINGTON — In that portion of the presidential field that does not view self-government as a stage for self-promotion, prejudice and blithering igno...

WASHINGTON — When Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras decided to call a referendum on a bailout offer from Greece’s creditors — an offer that expired before...

WASHINGTON — In the beginning there was Operation Overlord. Then came Operation Rolling Thunder, Operation Desert Storm and Operation Enduring Freedom...

Today it’s pensions, liquor privatization and educational funding. These white-hot issues pervade the policy debate in Pennsylvania, sucking so much p...

WASHINGTON — “So, Mom,” he says. “Did you tweet that you were going on ‘Meet the Press’?” No. “Did you tweet that you were going on ‘Hardball’?” No. S...