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(TNS) Pardon my beginning the New Year with an ominous observation: Our culture manages to function year after year against a mostly unacknowledged ba...

"Establishment Presidential Candidates Battle to End Flirtation With Outsiders." That Wall Street Journal headline sums up the race for the Republican...

ALBANY — Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb, R-Canandaigua, addressed his colleagues in the Assembly on their first day back in session and “took ...

I’m a sucker for a good montage. Put a series of photos from the past onto a screen with haunting music and I’m off in my own world of reflection. Wit...

For all the squawking that erupted in the wake of President Barack Obama’s executive action to expand background checks for gun buyers, including at g...

TOKYO (AP) — When North Korea hinted it had a hydrogen bomb last month — twice — it was largely brushed off as bluster. Now that it's claiming to have...

ALBANY (AP) — Recent editorials of statewide and national interest from New York's newspapers: The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle on helping the hom...

(TNS) “Press one for English, marque dos por Espanol.” Few instructions seem more grating to many English-speaking Americans — a sign, many fear, that...

(TNS) Two years ago, I sat across a table from a high-level Chinese official discussing the country’s then embarrassing foray into electric cars. Chin...

While President Barack Obama’s executive action to tighten federal background check requirements on gun sales will change little in New York state, th...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — By executing a senior Shiite cleric, Saudi Arabia effectively lit a match to set off regional sectarian tensions an...

(TNS) A couple of years ago, I participated in an Aspen Institute symposium on the state of race. During the roundtable that followed the panels, as I...

(TNS) The rapidly escalating conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran, sparked by the execution of a Saudi Shiite activist, may seem like the natural ou...

(TNS) It’s 2016, when the election will finally get to the voters. Yes, the presidential cycle is already more than 3 years old. Republican candidates...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has unveiled the first signature proposal of his 2016 agenda — his push to "restore economic justice" by making New York the first s...

(TNS) Calls by the candidates for the Republican presidential nomination to ban or severely limit immigration by Muslim refugees are probably counterp...

My wife doesn’t mess around when it comes to putting away the Christmas decorations. She loves the season, but she also loves order and neatness, and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Late in a life lived unnervingly near the nuclear abyss, William J. Perry is on a mission to warn of a "real and growing danger" of ...