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Jeff Sessions, the former U.S. senator from Alabama who served as President Donald Trump’s first attorney general and punching bag, lost the Republica...

Another presidential election is approaching, which means Russian election interference is back in the news. Maybe you’ve already made up your mind ab...

A report by Harvard Health Publishing notes people with mental health issues are more likely to have insomnia and other sleep disorders than the regul...

WASHINGTON — For weeks, the closest thing to drama on the Democratic side of the presidential campaign has been the Veepstakes: the mysterious process...

COVID-19 is an emotional roller coaster. It brings many emotions out in all who are involved. These emotions have such control over us during this tim...

When China imposed a draconian new security law on Hong Kong last week, I grabbed my phone to call some young pro-democracy activists I’d met there in...

ALBANY — The report this week from the state Health Department tries to deflect blame for thousands of coronavirus deaths in the state’s nursing homes...

NEW YORK — A group of 239 scientists is concerned about the airborne spread of COVID-19, saying that the social distancing rules we’ve been following ...

The Constitution forbids government from abridging freedom of speech and of the press. But we, the people, have no such prohibition, because free inqu...

I fear the email sent to the seniors of the class of 2020 at Allegany-Limestone was a knee-jerk reaction to a message from the Chicago police detectiv...

Members of the Board of Trustees were hurt and insulted by a recent letter from Fred and Lola Osmun that criticized the Cuba Cemetery. The Cuba Cemete...

At the Allegany-Limestone graduation ceremony on June 26, the commencement address was given by Matthew Bouch, a Chicago police detective and A-L alum...

WASHINGTON (TN S) — For five years, ever since Donald Trump announced he was running for president, we have heard allegations that he is inappropriate...

“DC should be a state. Pass it on.” That’s the message supporters of D.C. statehood pushed on social media late last week as the U.S. House of Represe...

So we were having dinner when my wife said, “It still feels weird that you’re not going into the TV room to watch baseball later on. Kind of sad, real...

Life is often made up of the unexpected. You could be one who planned it all out when you were young. I’ll finish high school, then go on to college. ...

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

Commentators have been busy trying to discern what Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. was up to when he joined the Supreme Court’s four liberals Monday...