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Editor's Note: The writer is addressing the question, “Are congressional progressives misusing their office to scapegoat climate-change deniers?” (TNS...

As Hillary Clinton starts her second run for the presidency, one statistic stands out: 47 percent. Mitt Romney made that number notorious by saying th...

(TNS) In the weeks and days leading up to the 2012 election, conservative strategists and pundits were confident their candidates, policies and outrea...

When the Civil War ended 150 years ago, Washington, D.C. celebrated with parades and pyrotechnics as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his wife arrived fresh ...

Several weeks ago my wife and I were blessed to have a couple who were former seminary classmates come to visit us. They are now missionaries in Mexic...

(TNS) OK, now it’s religion’s turn. People of faith who assert their rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act enacted by Indiana have been p...

On May 1, the local assessors of Cattaraugus County will file their tentative assessment roll, which will provide the taxpayers in our county the oppo...

(TNS) “Stand With Rand.” That’s Sen. Rand Paul’s main slogan as he launches his campaign for the White House. He held a “Stand With Rand” rally in his...

(TNS) In the wake of the Germanwings crash in Europe last month, the media outcry has focused on the failure of the doctors who treated co-pilot Andre...

Among all the enlarging crises — from insatiably murderous ISIS to the fading individual liberties of more Americans in the Bill of Rights, how many 2...

VIENNA (AP) — In selling the Iran nuclear deal to Congress and other skeptics, President Barack Obama said it is built on "unprecedented verification,...

No one should have to survive the trauma of sexual abuse alone. In the Southern Tier, sexual assault survivors can turn to the Sexual Assault Forensic...

(TNS) Federal corruption charges against Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., challenge the reasoning behind a court decision that has allowed wealthy donors...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans say bipartisan legislation that reworks how Medicare pays doctors is a milestone toward curbing a huge, growing benefit ...

A lot has happened in three short years. Less than three years, actually. In August 2012, I covered my first Olean school board meeting, filling a vac...

(TNS) Iran and its six negotiating partners have, at long last, agreed on the key parameters of a final deal regarding Iran’s nuclear program. On the ...

(TNS) If bacteria had a motto, it would be “What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” In an environment of low-dose antibiotics, the few organisms that...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The framework nuclear deal sealed by world powers and Iran leaves major questions: Could Iran cheat? Possibly. Would the U.S or anyo...