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Farmersville Town Board member Tom Callahan Jr. writes, in an op-ed in the Nov. 15 edition of the Times Herald, to urge the Cattaraugus County Industr...

ALBANY (TNS) — The state Department of Environmental Conservation is, as many of you will know, the agency that allowed a massive dump for constructio...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Researchers who study misinformation are confronting a new problem: public scorn. And it’s not just in the form of online trolling. T...

Have you been watching the news reports from down South? Some individuals have faced the cameras and you can see the devastation on their faces, hear ...

The Biden-Harris administration wants the public to believe the country is in great shape economically. Yet the budget deficit tells a story of unsust...

I am voting for Donald Trump because I care about my fellow man, and despite the narrative that the MAGA movement is hate and bigotry, I know better. ...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — If you needed just one fact to show that in the world’s greatest democracy one of the two major parties is perversely devoted to s...

Just three weeks before the election, existential dread is descending on Democrats. As the average of both national and battleground state polls conti...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The American political system works. Of course it works. That’s what a system — a thing that once set up keeps running — does. But ...

I’ve had a good life, learning and traveling and am lucky enough here in the UK [United Kingdom] to be allowed an assisted death which I hope will be ...

The straightforward fact remains that every time New Yorkers go the grocery store, or the gas station, or to buy back-to-school supplies for their chi...

Everyone is talking about the Democratic National Convention, which got underway Monday in Chicago, but our minds turned to what we saw, or rather wha...

This year’s hottest back-to-school trend is one most students won’t like: cellphone bans. A growing number of districts across the country have enacte...

Last month, for the first time since March 2021, the consumer price index — the indicator of inflation — fell below 3% annual increase , hitting 2.9% ...

While Kamala Harris hides from unscripted events, Donald Trump can’t stop talking off the cuff. On Monday, the former president gave an interview to E...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Olympic competitors over 40 are inspiring — and less of a rarity than they used to be. Scientists say athletes with extreme staying p...

It took me till the end of our first long cruise in the summer of 1953 to realize what was happening. That brotherhood thing — the unbreakable bond th...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — It took a decade, but the man who left a dead bear cub in Central Park finally fessed up in a social media post Sunday. Why now? B...