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CLEVELAND — A specter is haunting the Republicans as the march toward their midsummer nominating convention here continues. Donald Trump is continuing...

(TNS) A viral video released in February showed Boston Dynamics’ new bipedal robot, Atlas, performing human-like tasks: opening doors, tromping about ...

Here are two movies that you’re unlikely to find playing at your local multiplex, but if you can somehow manage to put them together in a double featu...

We live in a world where unintended consequences are sometimes the result of an action that has been taken. This can happen when writing or amending l...

"(T)here might have been some slim hope of reviving Mrs. Mongar." So reads the scathing grand jury report of the trial of Kermit Gosnell, the Philadel...

(TNS) The first thing to say is that these reflections arise from an area of the mind unclouded by present presidential contentions. Nancy Reagan’s de...

One hundred seventeen foreign policy and legal experts have signed an open letter refusing to support Donald Trump. The letter criticizes Trump's prom...

It was through another Times Herald assignment that I rediscovered a fascination and respect for creativity, innovation and the work that individuals ...

Three days before the Democrats' South Carolina presidential primary — in which Hillary Clinton won nearly 90 percent of the black vote — a drama unfo...

(TNS) American decline is a popular narrative these days. It’s a central feature of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign — you can’t “make America gre...

(TNS) In the early 1980s I was a mediocre graduate student at the feet of the legendary British philosopher and historian Isaiah Berlin. The Universit...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The insurgent presidential bids of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have roused Americans who are angry and anxious about an economy ...

In Thursday’s edition of the Olean Times Herald I read a piece on the Commentary page that nearly broke my heart. It was an editorial reprinted from a...

(TNS) In 1968 I was a “Clean for Gene” campaigner in western Kansas. There were probably a hundred of us, but at least we caused enough of a ruckus to...

(TNS) Brittany Maynard is the human face of the proposition that Americans who are threatened by a terminal illness should have more freedom to choose...

I’ve had an old tune in my head lately as I strive to evaluate how I’m spending my time. It was penned by Willie Nelson, recorded by him, Elvis, Tom J...

(TNS) I should have foreseen that my golden retirement years would echo with the sound of tables being pounded. Many of my retired contemporaries see ...

(TNS) Search the word “concussion” online and you get a movie starring Will Smith, a PBS documentary and a long list of stories about professional ath...