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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl always seemed to be searching for something to define his life. Growing up in the mountain town of Hailey, Idah...

A week ago, I wrote about my dilemma with locating a rental place that is in a safe area, clean and allows pets. I had spent weeks sifting through the...

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo recognized New York’s dairy industry Tuesday in marking Dairy Month in New York state and across the country. As the state's lead...

“I have tried very hard not to inject myself into China’s internal affairs,” wrote President George H.W. Bush to his Chinese counterpart, Deng Xiaopin...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The five Democrats on the House Select Committee on Benghazi are being counted on to defend the Obama administration's record as Nov...

Each spring, as college graduates collect their diplomas and their first student loan payment slips, the Chronicle of Higher Education publishes its l...

The first six-week summer session is underway at the college where I work, and my class is off to a splendid start. The subject is writing, which is h...

Proponents of big government require a no more salient example of its inherent weakness than the scandal that has recently consumed the Department of ...

F or the past couple of months, I’ve been trying to find a three-bedroom house or apartment to rent. The location, be it Olean, or a town close by, or...

Almost three years ago, on July 20, 2011, this paper published a suggestion by Dr. Colleen Taggerty which put forth a proposal to increase off-street ...

I was shocked to learn that Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, a persistent critic of the Obama administration’s far overreach of the Constitution’s...

Maya Angelou walked into a meeting of civil rights leaders discussing affirmative action back in the 1990s, looked around, and put them all in their p...

Dustin was nervous. Who could blame him? With about 25 minutes until showtime, he approached me and a handful of close high school buddies as we caugh...

By charging five Chinese military officers with hacking into U.S. corporations on behalf of Chinese industry, the Obama administration claims it is ta...

On this 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, the remnants of the pro-democracy movement in China are hard to find. What began as a peace...

Will the death penalty ever be abolished in America? Executions, and the states that carry them out, are in decline. Public support for the death pena...

When my mom entered the University of Oregon in the late 1950s, a “housemother” made nightly doorjamb patrols after the 11 p.m. lights-out. Dorms were...

This would be easy to overstate, but in comparison with much of the world, our country does a decent job of administering justice in a measured, equit...