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Many of us were delighted by high school senior Kwasi Enin, who made the news recently when he was admitted to all eight Ivy League universities. He a...

It’s the kind of scrutiny he’d likely not want to deal with, but Cattaraugus County Sheriff Timothy Whitcomb appears to understand that after three in...

(This is the last in a series on addressing injustices in the U.S. prison system.) At last, more emphasis — particularly from Attorney General Eric Ho...

The mission of the Olean Public Library is “to provide equal access to materials in various formats, programs, services, and professional staff to ass...

There’s a reason we all love to “reply” to emails we receive, while striving to avoid an inappropriate “reply all.” Internet addresses can be so messy...

Two years ago, protesters were occupying Wall Street. Today, according to the new book “Flash Boys” by Michael Lewis, we have an occupation conducted ...

“Charges of bigotry ... are the ultimate secular insult,” Caroline Farrow tells me. “The cry of ‘bigot’ is bandied around so much these days,” she obs...

I like Pope Francis, too, though I won’t be thoroughly smitten by him until he changes his mind on celibacy, contraception and equality for women in t...

How long do you think you’d continue to read a newspaper if every single story on every single page for the last three weeks was about a missing airpl...

CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — More than a week into what was supposed to be only a five-day trip to Europe and Saudi Arabia, U.S. Secretary of State John...

There is plenty to say about Turkey these days, although not on Twitter or YouTube. Both are frequently blacked-out in Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdo...

How do you spell conscious uncoupling? Where I came from, we always spelled it the way Tammy Wynette sang it, which is D-I-V-O-R-C-E. I had one of the...

Thank you, Supreme Court. Before your decision Wednesday in McCutcheon v. FEC, Americans were confined to giving a measly total of $48,600 in campaign...

On Ralph Wilson: The memories, the memories; they speak for themselves. All those good, good times. Let’s not forget that the Bills have brought to ou...

SAN FRANCISCO — The 5,000 member American Studies Association voted last December to join the academic boycott of Israel, the third scholarly group in...

WASHINGTON — U.S. scholars’ mounting boycotts of Israeli academic and cultural institutions are ironic indeed, for they contradict everything that hig...

Only a decade ago, Christian social conservatives were a commanding force in American politics. They helped elect one of their own, George W. Bush, to...

Jet aircraft are large, but not compared with the ocean. The weeks-long search for some physical sign of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is not something...