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NEW YORK (AP) — Empty seats were hard to come by at Clint Eastwood's "American Sniper" over the holiday weekend, where the R-rated Iraq War drama — al...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Out to rewrite the rules for lame ducks, a combative President Barack Obama is barreling into the final two years of his presidency ...

(TNS) —Neither the modest new proposals President Barack Obama outlined in his State of the Union speech, nor the well-crafted, reasonably well-receiv...

(TNS) —President Barack Obama’s sixth State of the Union address turned out to be pretty much as previewed in a series of strategic spoilers doled out...

When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, intellectuals everywhere hailed him as one of their own. So closely was he identified with this elite tha...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John McCain is waging another national campaign — this time, to define his legacy. After two unsuccessful presidential bids, th...

Olean and Cattaraugus County residents should be troubled by the secretive nature of Friday’s conference about economic development. The topic of econ...

A s everyone knows, our old SPCA building is held together with “chewing gum and baling wire” and filled with dogs and cats that must be fed and kept ...

While Europeans worry about those who have gone to Syria to train with ISIS, millions of Syrian children are at risk of becoming terrorist recruits. A...

President Obama’s announcement of his proposal to provide free tuition for 9 million community college students coincides with the start of the spring...

NEW YORK (AP) — The world burns enough oil-derived fuels to drain an Olympic-sized swimming pool four times every minute. Global consumption has never...

SYRACUSE (AP) — More than a million New Yorkers got a boost in their paychecks on Jan. 1 when the minimum wage went up. But for another 230,000 people...

C ivic spirit and initiative applied toward solving problems or improving the community can never be a bad thing. Elected officials and business leade...

OSLO, Norway — In my long nomadic life, I’ve been to both poles and most countries in between. I still remember when to be an American was to be envie...

The United States has the most potent military in terms of firepower and operational capacity in history. Our military overthrew Saddam Hussein and cr...

At Pittsfield Middle High School in southeastern New Hampshire, the students are individually and actively involved in their own learning. This enlive...

The murderous attack on the office of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris last week can be seen in the context of modern French society: its c...

The last time I considered the possibility of Mitt Romney 2016, I said he technically counts as a viable candidate, but realistically it just isn’t go...