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Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau; Mock on, mock on; ‘tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. WASHI...

HarperCollins says it’s sorry. It says it regrets not including Israel on a map of the Middle East in an atlas it published and distributed in the Mid...

WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell, the new Senate majority leader, has an exceedingly high opinion of his own power. In a speech on the Senate floor Wednes...

WASHINGTON — Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell deserved to be indicted for taking thousands of dollars in gifts from a businessman seeking state help...

WASHINGTON — We know, because they often say so, that those who think catastrophic global warming is probable and perhaps imminent are exemplary empir...

WASHINGTON — John Boehner won re-election as speaker of the House on Tuesday with the help of an unlikely ally: Mario Cuomo, the former Democratic gov...

WASHINGTON — Recent events from Ferguson, Missouri, to Staten Island, New York, might prompt an observer to infer that American cops are racist and th...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Organizers of Democratic Gov.-elect Tom Wolf’s inauguration say it will be comparable to those of other recent Pennsylvania governor...

WASHINGTON — Standing at the intersection of three foreign policy crises and a perennial constitutional tension, Bob Corker, R-Tenn., incoming chairma...

Gas prices have plunged to the low $2 range — except in Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania, the prices at the pump are in the mid-$2 range. That’s because ...

A reader writes that her friends “recently spent around $300 on their daughter’s birthday party—her first. They bought lots of stuff to entertain thei...

WASHINGTON — A writer seeking profound pronouncements for a year-end column is likely instead to find herself awash in punchlines. Life isn’t a comedy...

WASHINGTON — What is curious about the present understandable preoccupation with the middle class is the assumption — both explicit and implicit — tha...

It was New Year’s Eve and a crowd of children and adults were packed into a church in downtown Bradford to see a First Night Bradford Marionette puppe...

WASHINGTON — In 1968, a singularly traumatic year — assassinations, urban riots, 16,899 Americans killed in Vietnam — Vice President Hubert Humphrey, ...

WASHINGTON -- In 1968, a singularly traumatic year -- assassinations, urban riots, 16,899 Americans killed in Vietnam -- Vice President Hubert Humphre...

WASHINGTON — This is the time when we make lists. The best movies of 2014. The best books. The funniest cartoons. The greatest photos. The most amazin...

WASHINGTON — As Americans gather with their families at Christmastime, we should pause to remember four who are not coming home for the holidays. Jame...

I ran across an article the other day about people who still make ornaments and simple toys out of wood as Christmas gifts. It made me think of my Unc...

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama has made a geopolitical irrelevancy suddenly relevant to American presidential politics. For decades, Cuba has been instruct...