Opinion

NEW YORK (TNS) — Protests erupted in Los Angeles and other cities, with streets filled with demonstrators clashing with police, National Guard troops ...

Violence broke out in Los Angeles over the weekend in protest of federal immigration raids. The response highlights the need for a more functional Ame...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Sometimes it takes a self-indulgent public-relations stunt to remind us of what’s important. Monday’s inevitably intercepted aid flot...

On June 8, 1789, James Madison rose before Congress and performed an about-face. The founder who had opposed the addition of a bill of rights to the C...

The Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Defense and Office of Personnel Management violated the Payment Integrity Information Act by publis...

ANDOVER — Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has crashed the Irish Festival — drunk, pushy and getting in everyone’s face with some of the most obnoxious...

The Department of Housing and Urban Development spent $714 million paying outside contractors to take care of houses and condominiums owned by the fed...

CHICAGO (TNS) — Americans unhappy with President Donald Trump’s second term have taken to wishing for something they shouldn’t. If only the U.S. Treas...

Raising the age of criminal responsibility in New York has created a nightmare scenario that opened statutory loopholes that prohibit law enforcement ...

R. David Lankes said, “Bad libraries build collections, good libraries build services, great libraries build communities.” As I am hearing more inform...

ALBANY — Every session of the state Legislature brings a fresh crop of proposals that would drive up health-care costs, and 2025 is no exception. Here...

It seems it was bound to happen. The White House is nowhere big enough to accommodate the egos of President Trump and Elon Musk. Their fallout happene...

NEW YORK (TNS) — There is no constituency for debt reduction, which is a fancy way of saying voters don’t care that the federal balance sheet is rough...

BOSTON (TNS) — Electric car subsidies are heading for the chopping block. A tax bill recently passed by House Republicans is set to stop billions in t...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (TNS) — To read David Mastio’s recent column about gun violence among America’s children, one would think this epidemic is nothing bu...

President Donald Trump spoke to Russia’s Vladimir Putin for more than an hour on Wednesday about Ukraine. But results remain elusive. “It was a good c...

The Olean Public Library is so much more than a place to check out books — it’s a space where families grow, kids feel seen and learning comes to life...

When I read the lowly penny was set for extinction, I got melancholy thinking of what would no longer be. First, kids will not know the excitement of ...