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Tuesday was a very good day if you support common sense in American politics. On both the right and the left, voters and politicians embraced candidat...

CHICAGO (TNS) — Automakers are now learning an important lesson: Not all car buyers are wealthy environmentalists. This should be obvious but apparent...

Turkey, stuffing, family and friends. Thanksgiving is that special time of year when loved ones gather from near and far to share for what and whom th...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Adam Bowen and James Monsees — the focus of the Netflix docuseries “Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul” — originally set out to m...

The entire Democratic political establishment freaked out recently when The New York Times published a story headlined, “Trump Leads in 5 Critical Sta...

NEW YORK (TNS) — With cold and flu season ramping up, you may soon be heading to the pharmacy in search of relief. When you do, you might remember tha...

The latest Siena College-New York Times poll of six battleground states is a five-alarm fire for Democrats a year before the election. It shows Biden ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a history, and a present, of promoting wild conspiracy theories. His independent bid for the presidency is quixotic at best....

Let’s start this week with a memory because, in the end, this week will be all about remembering. With that in mind, I’ll recall former President Rona...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Last week, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken headed for the Middle East to try to keep Israel’s war in Gaza from spinning out of...

WASHINTON (TNS) — When Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and slaughtered more than 1,300 men, women and children dead, Students for Justice in Palestine...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Democrats are so accustomed to losing statewide elections in blood-red Mississippi that they hardly get all shook up about a candid...

It’s been a disquieting time for well-meaning liberals who have been suddenly confronted with the realization that their own side is rife with fanatic...

ALBANY (TNS) — Melissa DeRosa was in eighth grade when she transferred from public school in Saratoga Springs to the Albany Academy for Girls. There, ...

CHICAGO (TNS) — The Middle East once again perches on the precipice of all-out war. Thousands of Israeli and Palestinian civilians are dead or wounded...

It’s funny how the seasons of the northern climates speak to us. They help us mark time as we walk through various activities and rituals in our lives...

The headline from a new Des Moines Register-NBC News poll of Iowa is that former President Donald Trump still has a big lead in the Republican race. A...

NEW YORK (TNS) — The power went out on my block the other day, and even though it meant being without electricity, the internet and heat on a chilly m...