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DALLAS (TNS) — A trio of federal court decisions has left uncertainty and confusion about the legality of abortion pills and the conditions under whic...

Pennsylvania lawmakers regularly give away the store to wealthy interests. The theory is that it’s necessary to compete with neighboring states for de...

You may read about them in the newspaper, run into them in the supermarket, or even see them patching potholes, mowing along local roads, or plowing s...

Pennsylvania’s U.S. senators are leading the push to hold the rail industry more accountable for ensuring the safety not just of the people who work i...

The philosopher Eric Hoffer famously wrote, “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” Wh...

A woman named Pamela Smart will remain in prison for the foreseeable future. New Hampshire’s highest court on Wednesday rejected the latest attempt to...

This year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament has put the “mad” in March Madness, with all of the highest-ranked teams eliminated and a most unlikely F...

COVID-19 was already spreading widely around the world in February and early March of 2020 — well before many Americans had gotten the message that th...

HARRISBURG — Every good story needs a villain, and in the story of Pennsylvania’s 2023-24 budget, it seems like the Republicans who’ve controlled the ...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania has long suffered from a tax system that is both highly regressive, taking a larger share of income from low-income and mode...

Nothing gets done without energy. From powering computers, credit card machines, or heavy manufacturing machinery to providing the electricity needed ...

When you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. That’s the gist of critics’ arguments against the creation of a government-run tax preparation ser...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Twenty years ago, when I first hired him in Baghdad, my Iraqi interpreter and driver Salam was thrilled that the Americans had to...

During his infamous “mission accomplished” speech in May 2003 from the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of San Diego, President George W. Bush announ...

If Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts about his supposedly impending arrest make it feel like our politics are about to reach another level of insanity...

Whatever else it produced, this week’s visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Moscow did not advance the cause of a just peace in Ukraine. If anythi...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — Sen. Ted Cruz is known for having strong opinions, many of which are needlessly bombastic; some of which are best ignored. B...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — March must be a bad month for civil liberties. In addition to the third anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdowns, it’s the 20th anniv...

A state senator wants to expand a law covering compensation for police and firefighters hurt in the line of duty, but his colleagues should go along o...

Nearly two decades after Congress approved the invasion of Iraq, the legislature is preparing to rescind that vote, as well as a prior war authorizati...