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FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — When a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention committee announced last month that COVID-19 vaccines will be added t...

When COVID shut down America in early 2020, millions lost their jobs and the government wisely expanded unemployment insurance — its eligibility, bene...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Can Donald Trump supporters be honest with themselves? Trump might be the bull in the china shop they always wanted. He might spea...

Elections are rarely about only one issue, but there’s no question that economic worries motivated voters this year. Polls, both before the election a...

America is exceptional. For those who may not believe so or may have forgotten, it is the job of the rest of us to show them the way. In a focus group...

The wake of an election in which millions of Americans in diverse districts nationwide made their voices heard is the perfect time to remember: While ...

BOSTON (TNS) — The Democrats’ relentlessly negative campaign strategy for winning the midterms may come with a cost in 2024, damaging their prospects ...

Harlan Krumholz, a cardiologist at the Yale School of Medicine, says he worries about two kinds of long COVID. There’s the obvious version where peopl...

We're less than a week away from the midterm elections, the first opportunity since the more-or-less end of the pandemic for voters to pass judgment o...

In the days before the midterm elections, it’s easy to see our political divisions. In fact, it’s all but impossible to escape them if you’re the sort...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — My plan was to dither. I find that if I plan to dither, the chances are high I’ll follow through. Last week, while the World’s Ric...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — I recently woke up to an email from a local bakery I have patronized that read: “Due to staff shortages, we will be closed t...

A dear young friend had been married for three years when she shared the exciting news: her first baby was on its way. Everyone was over-the-moon happ...

Over the eight months since Russia invaded Ukraine, public support for U.S. military aid to Kyiv has been remarkably solid and mostly bipartisan. A la...

President Joe Biden in August unveiled the vote-buying scheme known as student loan forgiveness. Two months later he has forgotten the particulars. Du...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (TNS) — What if the way to break through our polarized politics was to reward those willing to cross the partisan divide for the greate...

I am, as many are, concerned about where we are heading as a country in which government, both federal and state, controls more and more of our lives....

Some rather alarming headlines recently circulated about the newest members of the omicron family. “Nightmare COVID variant,” read one. “The most immu...