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Joe Biden is the most cosseted presidential candidate in memory. He’s run a minimalist campaign that’s avoided the press as much as possible, while th...

GOP insiders are now hoping for the best but bracing for the worst. Veteran Republicans have all but given up on Donald Trump's reelection and are now...

Americans are at a crossroads in the upcoming election. They must decide whether to follow the brash promises of Donald Trump or the calming commitmen...

It was utterly amazing, the first hearing of the Senate on giving its consent to President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett. Th...

If the 2020 presidential election goes to the Supreme Court, as happened just 20 years ago, whether Amy Coney Barrett helps Donald Trump get a second ...

Now dragging into its fifth month, the back-and-forth over a new pandemic relief package is enough to give anyone whiplash. It is also a slap in the f...

Medicare Advantage, a program of competing private health plans for Medicare beneficiaries, is breaking records for enrollment, health plan choice and...

NEW YOK — I realize COVID-19 is a new virus and we’ve all had to get up to speed in battling it. I just wish that everybody would get on the same page...

The New York Post published a story Wednesday about Joe Biden and his son Hunter that read suspiciously like disinformation. More important, the piece...

Amy Coney Barrett acquitted herself very well at her confirmation hearings, which means, quite often, she refused to answer questions. Barrett is an e...

Few moments in life are as breathtaking as the birth of a child. Our moment came in 2008. Tiny, at only 5 1/2 pounds, our little girl arrived in early...

Every day, some new poll is published showing Democratic challenger Joe Biden with a big lead over President Donald Trump. Some Trump supporters ignor...

Back in my own days playing guns, we had the coolest hideout ever: a hut we’d built on a wooded half-acre out of lumber liberated from a subdivision u...

Amy Coney Barrett has accomplished many things in her career. Becoming an authority or a policy maker on healthcare isn’t one of them. At Notre Dame, ...

ALBANY (TNS) — It was about 2003 when the phone rang in my newspaper office. “‘Fred? Joe Bruno. Listen, I hear you’ve gotten bad news about your prost...

Yes, President Trump and his allies are trying to lay a trap for Joe Biden by pressing him to say whether he would support expanding the size of the S...

This year, 2020, has been scary. Especially for kids. They have had school canceled, endured extreme social isolation, been told visiting their grandp...

Every political campaign hopes for an October surprise to shift the November election their way. President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis and hospi...