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Consider these two current national trends: the exploding cost of going to college and the widening American wealth and income gap. Now consider the p...

WASHINGTON (AP) — They have health insurance, but still no peace of mind. Overall, 1 in 4 privately insured adults say they doubt they could pay for a...

We are living longer, something to celebrate. The average life expectancy was about 62 years in 1935 when President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Soci...

I’ve been reporting on educational developments for more than 65 years, but very seldom have I been as heartened by a discovery as in a September Clev...

ALBANY (AP) — A hotly anticipated decision on fracking won't come before New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo stands for re-election. Same for an announcement o...

A few days ago I had lunch with a high-ranking official with the New York State Department of Transportation. We discussed the North Union Street proj...

In celebrating our American Revolution, we tend to see it as the simple act of a united people whose happy outcome was virtually assured by our declar...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has not been seen in public for more than a month, generating speculation that his absence is due to failing health or...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The barrage of U.S. cruise missiles aimed at a cell of al-Qaida militants in Syria last month failed to stop ongoing terror plots to...

VIENNA, Va. — Blame the messenger. It may be the oldest audible in the PR playbook, but that hasn’t stopped defenders of King Football from calling th...

BALTIMORE — Just in time for this fall’s congressional elections, a jeering section of media pundits and politicians have taken to the airwaves denoun...

On Sept. 18, Rand Paul’s foreign policy address to the Senate ended with: “ISIS is now a threat. Let’s get on with destroying them” (“Remarks Prepared...

I respect the work that Jeff Belt has done to represent our economic development needs within the region. He is a dedicated advocate for our great Ole...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Doug Wortham used a Defense Department giveaway program for law enforcement to stock his office with an assault rifle, a handg...

As a constitutional law professor, I have mixed feelings about the first Monday in October. On the one hand, I look forward to the start of the new Su...

Pesident Barack Obama, who swept to power in 2008 in part on his promise to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq, is clearly a reluctant warrior. His concern ...

“Caring and sharing": Believe it or not, that was the gist of a press day in the nation’s capital this past week. A group of Catholics, most who proba...

Quick: Which president did Abraham Lincoln most admire? The answer may surprise you. Most Americans do not remember most presidents or their achieveme...