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OLEAN — Walking into the Olean Public Library, the first thing you probably notice is the smell of books. The second thing is most likely the “Inchy” ...

During the two years I lived in Israel serving as a junior U.S. diplomat, I used many words to describe the country that I somewhat reluctantly called...

I am 50 years old and a breast cancer survivor. Fourteen years ago, I started my journey into medical debt. When I was 36, my aunt was diagnosed with ...

It’s that time of year, a time to embrace being spooked, if you are so inclined. Visit a haunted house. Take a haunted hayride, maybe through a cemete...

An extraordinary document emerged from the 2024 Republican presidential race this week, and it isn’t getting enough attention. It’s a memo from the su...

ALBANY (TNS) — As Hamas terrorists were slaughtering, kidnapping and mutilating Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, Albany Law School professor Nina Farnia t...

Many of us are enamored with movies and TV, and there’s not much more that some people find exciting than seeing a production being filmed in their ci...

Luck is the residue of design, they say. Might it also be the residue of frightening and confusing foreign adversaries? Donald Trump’s relatively cris...

Former President Trump has held a slight lead in the RealClearPolitics Average of the polls since around Sept. 11. While his lead is well within the m...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Ever since Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, Israel has waged an intermittent but limited military campaign to keep a...

The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is no doubt complex. There are, indeed, legitimate grievances from the Palestinian people about how t...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Compared to the horror that descended upon Israel this week, the controversies over pro-Palestinian speech at universities might seem...

In 1988, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Hedrick Smith authored “The Power Game: How Washington Works.” It was a fascinating, if unflat...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — I regret to inform you that this is a column about nothing, because that is what Congress is doing this week. Even with a horrific ...

The War of 1812, like the American Civil War, has been romanticized beyond the reality of the actual historical record. However, unlike the Civil War,...

NEW YORK (TNS) — October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, as I was reminded over the weekend when a server offered me a special rose-colored cocktail...

NEW YORK (TNS) — With the appropriations fight in Washington in overdrive, and a barely avoided government shutdown behind it — for now — Congress sho...

A new study from the Government Accountability Office estimated that the amount of fraud from pandemic-era unemployment insurance programs is likely b...