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NEW YORK (TNS) — The gulf between how Israel and much of the world thinks about events in Gaza is growing, and with it the risk of regional escalation...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Does anyone believe that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis or former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley truly stands a chance of becoming the...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Anyone watching the Iowa caucuses results pour in Monday night could see very quickly that former President Donald Trump was going to...

Jack Smith is a threat to American democracy. He is blatantly seeking, as a prosecutor, to influence the outcome of the 2024 election. This is not his...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Even though it was the first time Republicans had voted in this presidential contest, there was a last-stand mentality here in Iowa...

NEW YORK (TNS) — What does it mean that scientists found 240,000 million nanoparticles of plastic in a typical bottle of water? The number is big and ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul opened her State of the State message to the Legislature last week with a surprising proclamation: “The State of New York is stronge...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul is looking to take a bite out of retail crime, in part by forming a task force to coordinate efforts. Let me save t...

Where would you most like to be on a New York blustery winter day? A few would say, “About time!” and head to the ski resorts. Some might watch for co...

President Joe Biden went to Valley Forge to give a big speech telling us how much he cares about defending democracy against the threat represented by...

At this stage of things, most of the developments in the criminal cases against former President Trump involve this appeal or that appeal, or this hea...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — More than half the nation’s Republicans see Donald Trump as a “person of faith,” meaning some kind of serious Christian, which stri...

Anyone following how weak and passive the U.S. has been in the face of provocations from our adversaries in the Middle East might conclude that the se...

NEW YORK (TNS) — I have never been a visionary — or even, since I have two eyes, a double visionary — but I recently read a newspaper report about dri...

The shroud is coming off elite academia and America is not pleased with what it’s seeing. Its leaders have told us that genocidal antisemitism is too ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — This year’s presidential election campaign is likely to be remembered as a year in which voters pondered a rematch no one really wa...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — I was as competitive then as I am now. I’d fling myself across the basement to save a point. I’d throw a fit if I pocketed the 8-ba...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — As the fighting in Ukraine continues, some representatives in Congress, primarily Republicans, oppose additional financial and mili...