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In a matter of one day, the value of a barrel of crude oil plummeted by 30%, a move that could have a lasting impact on this region’s economy. Brian Z...

WASHINGTON — With his interference in the 2016 election, Russian President Vladimir Putin achieved something that none of his murderous Soviet predece...

Both U.S. senators from Pennsylvania took issue with President Trump seeming to accept Russian President Vladimir Putin’s denials that Russia interfer...

WASHINGTON — Congratulations, America, indeed. President Trump was being sarcastic when he tweeted, at 7:28 Thursday morning, "Congratulations America...

WASHINGTON -- As sabers rattle ever louder across fields, plains, oceans and deserts, President Trump's words from earlier this year haunt the stable ...

WASHINGTON — Dear world: Please pay no attention to the man behind the golden drapes. He doesn't mean it. "What?" you say. "Doesn't mean what?" Anythi...

The circumstantial evidence is mounting that the Kremlin succeeded in infiltrating the U.S. government at the highest levels. How else to explain a ne...

WASHINGTON — If there is one operative rule in this city's left-right paradigm, it is to shift the focus of any conversation that seems at risk of rev...

In an environment where every day has felt like a month and almost every news cycle has something that the media consider a potentially administration...

WASHINGTON — To sum up President Trump's first month in office, he has exceeded everyone's expectations. To those who opposed him, he's worse than exp...

WASHINGTON — It's a Watergate-era cliche that the cover-up is always worse than the crime. In the Mike Flynn affair, we have the first recorded instan...

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., plans to vote against nominating Rex Tillerson as the next Secretary of State next week, saying the two men have “basic di...

WASHINGTON — Republicans can argue until their last breath that Trump objectors are sore losers, but isn't more at stake than "mere politics"? This ph...

OLEAN, N.Y. — Cattaraugus County Republican Party Chairman Robert C. Keis Sr., was among the first in the state to endorse Donald Trump for president ...

President Barack Obama has finally had it with Russia. It only took eight years of cold reality — topped off by the Russian interference in the Novemb...

WASHINGTON — When Barack Obama moves two miles from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to 2446 Belmont Road in Washington's Kalorama neighborhood, he will live ...

WASHINGTON — You can kick the can down the road, but when Kim Jong Un announces, as he did last Sunday, that "we have reached the final stage in prepa...

WASHINGTON — The fall of Aleppo just weeks before Barack Obama leaves office is a fitting stamp on his Middle East policy of retreat and withdrawal. T...

WASHINGTON — Democrats spent the first two decades of the post-Cold War era rather relaxed about Russian provocations and revanchism. President Obama ...

WASHINGTON — In the Trump movie now playing in the American theater, connecting all the dots requires the artistry of a mapmaker and the insight of a ...