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ALBANY (TNS) — America will be a healthier and happier place if Tim Scott somehow manages to win the Republican presidential nomination, particularly ...

The Portland Sea Dogs won, but that’s not why, fundamentally, the fans went home happy. The Double-A minor league affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, the...

The Supreme Court just acted to get rid of decades-long practices at colleges and universities that have been an illegal, unconstitutional, unprincipl...

CHICAGO (TNS) — It has been nearly 40 years since Congress was able to find common ground on the future of Social Security. While millions of people d...

We hear about food insecurity in highly segregated cities like Buffalo but food insecurity is more prevalent in rural areas like Cattaraugus County. Y...

Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream wants the United States to return the Blacks Hills to the Lakota. Which raises the question: Once this transfer takes place, w...

Anyone following the economic news coming from the Biden administration lately probably feels like Dorothy meeting the Wizard of Oz. Whether it’s data...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Even a broken clock is right twice a day, as the saying goes. The same lopsidedly right-wing Supreme Court that since June 2022 has...

The last year has shown the power of a 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court. Conservatives had a 5-4 majority for years and were not able to...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — For decades, U.S. employers and university admissions officers have wandered in a legal minefield, never fully certain whether rac...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — A little more than a week ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hold on power appeared to be disintegrating. Rebel mercenaries we...

BOSTON (TNS) — The campaign against affirmative action has reduced the complicated process of college admissions to a simple and highly inaccurate sou...

In honor of the nation’s 247th birthday, here are some quotations about patriotism and citizenship to consider over the holiday with our wishes for a ...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent in the Supreme Court’s affirmative action case achieved instant legendary status in certain quarters. Vice Pre...

NEW YORK (TNS) — When scientists announced at a conference last week that they had created synthetic human embryos, it felt like something from Brave ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Jesse Watters didn’t eat the pizza Tuesday night. Was Watters, the 44-year-old lightweight named a day earlier to replace Tucker Ca...

The Biden administration has a proclivity for choosing people with abysmal track records for top political appointments. Consider Jared Bernstein. A c...

Come on! Come on! There has to be something good on!” I told myself recently as I clicked my way across several streaming channels. I somehow ended up...