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The United States is a world leader in medical research, education and technology but a global laggard in health care access across its population. A ...

Just this month, we’ve seen political collapse in Haiti and military collapse in Afghanistan. South Sudan, the world’s newest nation, turned 10 years ...

Totalitarian regimes don’t tolerate dissent, so the unrest in Cuba has been an astonishing sight. Thousands of Cubans have defied government protest b...

Haiti needs many things at the moment. American soldiers are not among them. Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph asked for U.S. military help after t...

ERIE — A resident of Bradford has pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of childre...

Not so fast, Joe. Last week, President Biden spoke words that Americans have waited 16 months to hear. “We are emerging from the darkness of ... a yea...

For beginners, China is a thief, the equivalent of someone stealing something more than $4,000 from every four-person household in America every year,...

CHULA VISTA, C.A. — Michael Shuey is headed to Tokyo. The javelin thrower, and Johnsonburg native, has made headlines in the past. He competed in the ...

The question of whether women should serve in front-line combat roles was settled years ago, when the Obama administration officially rescinded a long...

Catching up with a friend over Zoom, I wondered recently what might have happened if China had come clean about the presence and origins of COVID-19 b...

NATIONAL LITTER STUDY: Results of The Keep America Beautiful 2020 National Litter Study have been released. The study provides a detailed understandin...

It is said that medieval scholastic philosophers debated how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. If so, they didn’t have anything on the amorp...

WASHINGTON — Populations of the American bald eagle — the bold national symbol of the United States — have quadrupled since 2009, according to a new r...

WOMEN’S HISTORY: March is National Women’s History Month, which traces its roots to March 8, 1857. At that time, women from various New York City fact...

During the 2020 campaign, candidate Joe Biden promised to undo President Donald Trump’s border security policies. He pledged to halt all deportations ...

President Joe Biden says he’s ready to resuscitate the Iran deal former President Barack Obama disastrously gave us if Iran quits its advanced uranium...

The United States celebrates 11 permanent legal public holidays, if you include the quadrennial celebration of Inauguration Day. None of these holiday...

When foreign policy scholars list the best secretaries of state of the last half-century, the usual choices are Henry A. Kissinger, the brilliant but ...

WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., announced that he was named to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which oversees the ...

On Wednesday, the Biden administration will enter the Oval Office in the midst of a pandemic and economic crisis, with the Democrats in control of bot...