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Soon, we'll know who President Trump wants to be the next Supreme Court justice. Republicans will praise her qualifications, her intellect, her judici...

Editor’s Note: These commentaries are a collaboration between the Olean Times Herald and interviewer Marcia Kelly with area residents, in hopes of cre...

Voting is the cornerstone of a democracy but, sadly, far too few people vote. Millions of Americans miss the chance to vote because they missed their ...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was not a judge. She was a justice. A judge sits on a lower court, hearing criminal and civil cases as they enter into the judicia...

You can get lost in the Auschwitz Memorial Twitter feed. When I visited that infamous German WWII concentration camp during the summer before our last...

Over the past several years, a new certainty was added to death and taxes: Jared Kushner would fail in his role as the administration’s Middle East po...

So Bob Woodward went out and found the “named source” Trumpists were clamoring for: Boss Trump himself. Following a bitter dispute over an anonymously...

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans face a critical choice on replacing the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — vote on her successor before ...

ALBANY — Hoping to jumpstart a bandwagon effect, advocates of soak-the-rich tax hike proposals in New York state are hyping a tax increase in New Jers...

We are accustomed to the occasional strong winds and elements here in Western New York, but events of the past couple weeks took many by surprise. The...

Last fall, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a member of the National Security Council staff, was a star witness against President Trump at House impeachmen...

If you are unlucky enough to live in one of the dozen or so states where the campaigns of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden a...

The attempted assassination of two Los Angeles County deputies, caught on a security video, is chilling and enraging enough. A man walks up to the par...

It was the week when working-at-home Americans kept sneaking peeks at a most unusual sort of scoop that was looping on our news screens. It was breaki...

A few years back, the now disgraced comedian Louis C.K. had a viral bit about how “everything is amazing and no one is happy.” iPhone not fast enough?...

Editor’s Note: This commentary, the result of a collaboration between the Olean Times Herald and interviewer Marcia Kelly, gives voice to area residen...

SARATOGA SPRINGS (TNS ) — David Peterson, an art professor at Skidmore College, says it was “civic interest and curiosity” that led him and his wife t...

Alexei Navalny, Russia’s top opposition politician who was poisoned on Aug. 20, is out of a coma. Navalny’s case should prompt the U.S. and NATO natio...