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For years, I haven't missed a press release from this nation's Catholic League. Late last month, Bill Donohue, the director of the civil rights organi...

(TNS) A decade and a half into the 21st century, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is under fire, and white-on-black violence brings the cry that black li...

(TNS) Since President Barack Obama asked Congress in February for a new authorization for use of military force against Islamic State, the proposal ha...

It’s funny how the very people who typically complain about government handouts now have their hands out. On Jan. 22, U.S. Rep. Tom Reed, R-Corning, i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — This was never happily-ever-after waiting to happen. When President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took ...

(TNS) HOMER, Alaska — Is this mortifying era of northern overexposure ever going to end? Here in Alaska, TV crews have been everywhere the last few ye...

(TNS) We invent the tools that we use to create the world we live in; in turn, the tools that we surround ourselves with sometimes take on a life of t...

(TNS) Here’s the strange but sad part about Brian Williams, Rand Paul, Bill O’Reilly and Robert McDonald: Each had legitimate bona fides in the very c...

(TNS) How do Americans feel about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing Congress next month? According to one new poll, moresupportit t...

I f I had bumped into Jim Burgeson on the street I would not have known him and, I am reasonbly sure, he would not have known me. But I do feel as if ...

(TNS) Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar — and sometimes it’s not. I couldn’t help thinking of Sigmund Freud’s purported quote as I listened to Preside...

ALBANY (AP) — The Daily Gazette of Schenectady on the problem of abandoned properties. Each day an abandoned property facing foreclosure goes unmainta...

EDITOR'S NOTE: The writer is addressing the question, “Is the U.S. moving too slowly to tap its offshore energy reserves?” (TNS) There’s something for...

YOLO! That's slang for "You only live once," and the phrase was popularized by the rapper Drake in his 2011 hit song "The Motto." (We had to look that...

HAVANA (AP) — Rolling toward customs with a 60-pound suitcase filled with clothing and electronics for friends, my stomach clenched when a female agen...

(TNS) Frank Underwood of Netflix’s “House of Cards” may seem like America’s most corrupt politician. He will stop at nothing, not even murder, to adva...

After such customary Obama administration un-American news as "US Will No Longer Report Guantanamo Hunger Strikes" (ABC News/AP, December 4) there sud...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — For anyone betting on the Northeast's casino bonanza, the odds are long on projects hitting financial expectations. In the last...