Opinion

NEW YORK (TNS) — There is something about manufacturing jobs, and the manufacturing industry, that makes people sentimental. When they think of a fact...

Since September 2025, I have been saving current news online articles that I felt a personal connection to. I am upset at how the Trump administration...

Wednesday’s Senate vote rejected a resolution that would have required the president to seek congressional approval before engaging in future military...

Will President Trump fall prey to the “Pottery Barn Doctrine”? Articulated by Secretary of State Colin Powell in the run-up to the Iraq War, it holds ...

When it comes to daylight saving time, American lawmakers remain in the dark. Admittedly, there are more important things for Congress to consider; bu...

The 2026 federal budget contains $15.8 billion in earmark funding for 8,475 local projects in lawmakers’ home districts, but the money was not distrib...

I was watching a news show the other day. A guest, a female doctor who fled Iran as a child, reminded me of earlier encounters with some students from...

Celebrations broke out across Iran in the wake of U.S. and Israeli strikes over the weekend that killed the country’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, an...

The weekend attack on Iran by the United States and Israel can be viewed not as the start of a new war, but rather a fresh battle in the four-decade w...

ALBANY — If she hasn't already, Gov. Kathy Hochul should read a federal judge's decision to reject state corrections Commissioner Daniel F. Martuscell...

One doesn’t associate luxury with being in the military, but Pentagon personnel spent record amounts of money dining on seafood in 2025, according to ...

The death of the medieval theocratic dictator of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei — a diabolical fanatic who pursued nuclear weapons — is a moment of celebrat...

I am writing as a concerned citizen and recent patient of Bradford (Pa.) Regional Medical Center's emergency department. My husband and I have both be...

About 7 feet above the ground on the front of a former YMCA building in Pittsburgh, a small horizontal plaque reads “HIGH WATER MARK / MARCH 18, 1936....

Indirect nuclear negotiations between the U.S. and Iran resumed on Feb. 6 for the first time since the 12-day war in June. However, amid deep distrust...

The federal government lost $186 billion to improper payments in fiscal year 2025, according to newly released data from the Office of Management and ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — France is great. I visit a few times a year, and the food is fantastic, the museums are amazing, and the day care is free (or heavily...

NEW YORK (TNS) — U.S. politics is apt to conflate disagreements about whether a policy is good or bad with disputes about whether it is constitutional...