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NEW YORK — Friends and fellow authors spoke out on Salman Rushdie’s behalf during a rally Friday on the steps of the main branch of the New York Publi...

BRADFORD, Pa. — Sunday night’s graduation ceremony at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford not only marked the culmination of four years of hard w...

It is said that medieval scholastic philosophers debated how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. If so, they didn’t have anything on the amorp...

President Joe Biden addressed Congress and the nation Wednesday night. This opera bouffe, complete with comic jumping jacks in the persons of Vice Pre...

I find it interesting that people are complaining about social media platforms that stopped Donald Trump from posting. The First Amendment of the U.S....

The liberals (Democrats) are driving the last nails into President Donald Trump. The riot in Washington was very bad. President Trump’s speech may hav...

Counter speech doctrine posits that the best remedy for negative or inaccurate speech is more accurate, positive speech. There are exceptions to this ...

ROCHESTER — On the same weekend in which Frederick Douglass 168 years ago gave his “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” a statue honoring the fa...

ALLEGANY — A letter that addressed concerns with Friday’s commencement address at Allegany-Limestone High School was emailed to graduates of the Class...

OLEAN — Although the graduates of the class of 2020 at Olean High School won’t experience the traditional commencement ceremony this year, administrat...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Tom Reed, co-chair of the Diabetes Caucus, said Monday he will bring Ben Cornell of Bemus Point as his guest to President Trump’s St...

Speech ­— even in this age of social media — is still humanity's most important means of communication. The spoken word is the way the vast majority o...

This graduation season, the podium is all hers. For the first time in at least two decades, the majority of the nation's top colleges are featuring wo...

OLEAN — Several people at venues in Olean commented Wednesday on President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address Tuesday at the U.S. Capitol...

ALBANY (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will lay out his 2018 agenda to lawmakers — including calls to overhaul state sexual harassment policies, cre...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Archbishop Walsh Academy graduations have far fewer diplomas to hand out than most local high schools. Yet the intimate ceremony Fri...

The newly sworn-in 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, stepped up to the podium to give his speech. As he read the carefully crafted...

DES MOINES - State Representative Bruce Bearinger from Oelwein shared some of his thoughts on the President Donald Trump’s inauguration speech. “Thank...