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Imagine President Franklin Roosevelt announcing at the end of 1944, after the liberation of France but before the final defeat of Nazi Germany and Imp...

As 2014 comes to a close, it is enveloped in red tape. From the breakfast table to the night light, government regulators invaded nearly every moment ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was intended as a joke. "Are you still president?" comedian Stephen Colbert asked Barack Obama earlier this month. But the questi...

I have long been reporting on Castro-ruled Cuba and, indeed, was there not long after Fidel Castro had taken over the country. What became clear, as t...

As a longtime Republican and a member of the Allegany County Republican Committee, I have been disappointed in the unwillingness of County Legislator ...

With the Allegany County Legislature’s Republicans deadlocked over who should be their next chairman, it might be useful to consider the bigger issue ...

On Christmas Day in 2008, I attended early-morning Mass at the Al Qaleb Al Aqdas (Sacred Heart) Church, in the Karrada district of Baghdad. Although C...

What do torture and sex have in common? Not much, I hope. But there is an odd consonance between two of our national history’s most notorious presiden...

I ran across an article the other day about people who still make ornaments and simple toys out of wood as Christmas gifts. It made me think of my Unc...

W hen I received an email from a spokesperson with the Torrance Rose Float Association in California, it was evident that Louis Zamperini’s boyhood co...

W hile hydrofracking in New York is a serious issue, there was a certain air of comedy hanging over the announcement that state officials will permane...

With international negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program extended beyond their self-imposed Nov. 24 deadline, talks have now resumed in Geneva. As ...

President Barack Obama’s recent executive order on immigration has caused a political uproar. Congressional Republicans have introduced legislation to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia's suddenly escalating financial crisis risks spilling beyond its borders and endangering parts of the global economy. With ec...

Basketball, for the most part, has always been the sport to draw a crowd at Archbishop Walsh. Hecklers, be they parents or spectators, are nothing new...

The report last week by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on enhanced interrogations under the George W. Bush administration suffers from fundamental f...

Crude oil prices are down 40 percent in recent months. There’s a surplus of 2 million barrels being pumped each day. Estimates are that demand for oil...

WASHINGTON (AP) — After drawing opposition from both ends of the political spectrum, the $1.1 trillion spending bill cleared for President Barack Obam...