opinion

WASHINGTON — Oh, Bill. There you go again. We knew you were going to pop off, but did it have to be so soon — and so tone-deaf? The Clinton deal is “t...

WASHINGTON — Police and prisons are the successful answer to a rather narrow question: Can overwhelming force and routine incarceration bring temporar...

WASHINGTON — The life of the wife of a presidential candidate can sometimes be like the government. Taxing. You wake up and blink through that first c...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Piece by piece, President Barack Obama is trying to build the foundation for the legacy he wants to leave, putting in place decision...

HARRISBURG (AP) — It’s the first thing each Pennsylvania state lawmaker checks in a governor’s brand-new budget proposal: How much more money the publ...

WASHINGTON — Today’s topic is toxic substances and the appalling gaps in the current law that is supposed to protect the public from dangerous chemica...

WASHINGTON — Owning a fragment of history — a Gettysburg bullet, a Coolidge campaign button — is fun, so in 1968 Gregg Bemis became an owner of the Lu...

BALTIMORE — Upstairs in the church office of Bethel A.M.E. Church, located several blocks from recent rioting, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake waits fo...

WASHINGTON — My three takeaways from Tuesday’s Supreme Court arguments on same-sex marriage involve the justices’ reasonable anxiety about oversteppin...

WASHINGTON — True words are often said in jest, it has long been said. But a harsher idiom has been taking shape in recent years: Jest is becoming the...

WASHINGTON — Lindsey Graham once said his road to Congress ran through a coronary clinic because it involves so many South Carolina barbecues. Today, ...

Kathleen Kane, Pennsylvania’s embattled attorney general, is having some bad days.A year ago she was the toast of state politics, in 2012 becoming the...

WASHINGTON — The anger in Ferguson, Missouri — even the violence— was more understandable and, in that sense, less upsetting, than what we have been w...

BISHOPVILLE, S.C. — Lee Correctional Institution, South Carolina’s largest maximum-security prison, gets plenty of bad press —from a riot and a lockdo...

HARRISBURG (AP) — They may not yet be at the forefront of policy debates at the Capitol, but Pennsylvania’s municipal pension troubles are stirring mo...

WASHINGTON — In thinking about donations to the Clinton Foundation from foreign governments and interests, an adage attributed to Benjamin Franklin an...

WASHINGTON — In 1994, Lindsey Graham, then a 39-year-old South Carolina legislator, ran for Congress in a district that he said had not elected a Repu...

Regarding the complaint filed by a grandfather of a 23-year-old deaf male alleging the (Bradford) City Police Officers used excessive force; I wanted ...

Vera Scroggins of Susquehanna County was found to be in contempt of court, Thursday, and fined $1,000. Her offense? She tells the truth. Truth is some...

WASHINGTON — Most of us have an image of the counterculture, shaped by memory or mythmaking, that involves Haight-Ashbury, flea-market clothing, free ...