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ALBANY (TNS) — Smartphones are a gift. They put the world in our pockets, enabling a previously unimaginable distribution of information and, um, cat ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — I am always amazed when, in the aftermath of a mass shooting such as the tragedy in Allen, Texas, both political parties exp...

The debt ceiling debate between the House GOP and President Joe Biden could, if not solved, lead to economic chaos and destruction — so it might seem ...

The term “artificial intelligence” often can be applied to members of congressional committees who use hearings to showboat rather than advance the pu...

Parents of more than one child often attest to how no two are alike. If they have a challenging, or what some psychologists call “strong-willed” or “w...

What do you call someone who claims to support free speech, but continually makes exceptions based on one thing or another, changing with the wind? Yo...

Every now and then there’s a one-off comment at a board meeting or in an email that makes me think, “Huh. That’s interesting.” It’s not enough to writ...

No gas stoves in new buildings, and only a handful of new charter schools. The Democratic left is running New York state these days, and Kathy Hochul ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Two television events in the last 10 days — a raucous Donald Trump rally billed as a CNN town hall and a far more sedate interview ...

Even if you hate the beach, live inland and aren’t bothered by dwindling fish, the latest spike in ocean temperature matters to you. The ocean is like...

One of Joe Biden’s greatest failings as president of the United States has been to facilitate several times more illegal immigrants crossing the south...

The Common Council voted to borrow $1.6 million to build a splashpad. The vote was 5-2. This will cost the taxpayers $100,000 a year for years. In the...

President Joe Biden was born Nov. 20, 1942. That has been a well-known fact, or at least a widely available fact, since Biden entered national politic...

In another case of too little, too late, Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers enacted 20 pages of new regulations in the state budget to tamp down th...

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have given rise to hyperbolic predictions of the decline of many human roles and professions. In fact, purp...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The federal government is careening toward its borrowing credit limit, beyond which the Treasury won’t be able to pay all its bills...

Montana State Rep. Zooey Zephyr can vote but no longer participate in debates or even walk the chamber floor after a party-line vote to bar the Democr...

Those well-steeped in our nation’s history long ago learned the inspiring story of how President George Washington delivered his stirring Gettysburg A...