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The decisions (or the lack thereof) that made Texas’ power grid vulnerable to the calamitous winter storm that left millions without heat and water ar...

When Joe Biden was running for president, he was asked if — unlike then-President Donald Trump — he would punish senior Saudi leaders for the 2018 mur...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — Upstate New York lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are urging President Joe Biden on a plan for reopening the U.S.-Canada border...

Within hours of taking office, President Joe Biden announced a resumption of funding for the World Health Organization as well as participation in the...

Among the clutter Joe Biden will inherit on Jan. 20 is this: a law enforcement relationship with Mexico in complete disarray. Mexican lawmakers adopte...

Sometimes it feels like democracy is just too dysfunctional. Voters are disengaged and uninformed. Congress is hyperpartisan — and so self-serving it ...

WASHINGTON — With less than two months left in his term, President Donald Trump still has time to make some final impulsive moves on foreign policy th...

A twisty, narrow way in the cramped heart of Vienna’s oldest quarter, a busy street in an upscale neighborhood of Tehran and remote woods in Nigeria s...

Ten years ago, a general pessimism began to set in among some pundits and technologists who convinced themselves that America can’t do big things anym...

The 2016 Paris Agreement represented the first global effort to address climate change. It’s become clear, however, that only a fraction of the 197 si...

Heading into Tuesday's U.S. general election, speculation was rife as to whether a Joe Biden victory might herald a big leftward shift, or what kind o...

As the clock ticks toward the expiration of a major nuclear arms control agreement between the United States and Russia, negotiators have been discuss...

Buffalo could become home to an NBA team for the first time in 42 years if the coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt travel when the next basketba...

BUFFALO (TNS) — U.S. Rep. Brian Higgins wants federal officials to follow the lead of the Canadian government and explore possible exemptions to curre...

ALBANY (TNS ) — The border between the United States and Canada will remain closed to nonessential travel at least until Oct. 21, according to a North...

Alexei Navalny, Russia’s top opposition politician who was poisoned on Aug. 20, is out of a coma. Navalny’s case should prompt the U.S. and NATO natio...

Editor’s Note: This commentary, the result of a collaboration between the Olean Times Herald and interviewer Marcia Kelly, gives voice to area people ...

In the cosmology of the Chinese Communist Party, the existence of Uighur Muslims is a threat not only to China’s dominant ethnic group, the Han, but a...