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WASHINGTON (AP) — While in office, former President George H. W. Bush once plaintively asked, "What is it about August?" Indeed, this sultry month usu...

By now, most people have seen friends or celebrities pour buckets of ice water over their heads as part of the “ice bucket challenge” for amyotrophic ...

Some ideas are so good that their appeal is immediately compelling. For example, when my classmates and I encountered the intellectual demands of elem...

DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — I was spending a few days in the Colorado woods when I voluntarily logged off the digital landscape. No laptop. No TV. No radio....

News about court cases that involve same-sex marriages usually travels fast. But when a judge in Tennessee recently upheld that state’s constitutional...

The hot, noisy deck of an aircraft carrier during flight operations is a dangerous inferno of a place: deafeningly loud in the blast of jet exhaust, t...

A recent decision by Facebook to limit the content we see in our newsfeeds could have far-reaching and potentially deleterious unintended consequences...

Editor’s Note: The following essay is from a blog post (dated July 12) by Alexis Storch, who had been invited to a month-long Holocaust educator’s con...

At long last, after all these years, we have a defining question to We The People on our rule of law from libertarian Jacob G. Hornberger, founder and...

During the past three years, two very special people in my life — my older sister and her husband — passed away. My brother-in-law was a Cuba native, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Al-Jazeera America marks its first anniversary on the air next week, and if you haven't watched much, you're not alone. The news netwo...

When Jane’s husband died a few years ago, the most immediate obstacle she faced was the lack of transportation as she didn’t have a driver’s license. ...

This letter addresses the appointment of a new police chief for the city of Olean. One-eighth of a mile stands in the way of naming a new chief. Bob B...

As the horrors of this summer unfold — war, disease and refugee children — we should reflect on how lucky we are. If you had been born in Central Amer...

Children are fleeing strife-torn Central American countries and crossing the border into the United States. Congress rants about border security yet c...

The latest Social Security Trustees’ report shows the projected dates of insolvency for the program’s trust funds remain largely unchanged. Regrettabl...

Love. Hate. Success. Failure. Talents. Handicaps. Burdens. Color. Music. Differences. They are (contrary to cotton’s claim) the fabric of our lives. I...

As the formidable, extra-robust Chris Christie rises in the Republican presidential polls, appearing attractively tough, Rand Paul also remains produc...