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Everyone makes mistakes. Smart people learn from them. For some, it takes more than one wrong turn for the lesson’s full impact. Some of these experie...

A contractor that received $1.5 million from the Internal Revenue Service for computer maintenance left some computers unusable for over a year, accor...

Earlier this month, the national debt surpassed $37 trillion, twice what it was just a decade ago. Once upon a time, the national debt was the subject...

FRESNO, Calif. (TNS) — Education is useful in many ways: People need to learn to read and write, and we must also learn social and emotional skills th...

When you have lived most of your years within an institution, you may be able to see only what the institution has been, not what it must now become. ...

Volunteer firefighters exemplify what it means to be a good community member. They selflessly give countless hours of their time to protect the homes,...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (TNS) — Imagine you order a new toaster from Amazon. Instead of one of those dark blue electric vans rolling up your driveway, a four...

Builders across New York state have started to notice something troubling: Most homebuyers are unaware of the All-Electric Buildings Act, passed in 20...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Debates over immigration policy are such a fixture of our politics that we often overlook the reason we have them: Because the Unit...

NEW YORK (TNS) — The American Eagle Outfitters Inc. Sydney Sweeney “Good Jeans” controversy happened in late July — a lifetime ago in internet terms —...

Donald Trump’s diplomatic efforts to stop the Ukraine conflict remain fluid, the details murky. But the fact that the president has in the span of onl...

NEW YORK (TNS) — If President Donald Trump were to issue an executive order to abolish mail-in voting, as he announced he would on social media on Mon...

The State Department spent $1.2 million on upgrades to swimming pools in seven foreign countries in the last four years, according to an analysis from...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — The lead singer of the alt-rock band the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus opened up a debate on free speech issues, in of all places, the New Y...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Trying to delete TikTok starts with a tap and ends with second thoughts. Everything in between feels tedious as your decision is re...

It’s one thing to deploy United States military troops in the aid of the police force in Washington, D.C., however unusual that may be. It’s another t...

At a time when law-abiding New Yorkers are struggling to pay skyrocketing electric and utility bills, New York state shouldn’t be asking taxpayers to ...

Like a bad dream, thousands of Congressional earmarks that were thrown out during last year’s appropriation process will potentially receive federal f...