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It was typical Republican rhetoric in the Dec. 26 article on New York state’s budget deficit: “a self-inflicted wound on a bloated and corrupt system....

In 1954, a senator named Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin waged war against communists in government and society. He saw the United States through red-c...

Hoda Muthana left college and her family ties in Alabama four years ago to join the Islamic State. Three husbands later — two of them dead — with ISIS...

LEWIS RUN, Pa.— While the focus was on holiday events and good food during Federal Correctional Institution-McKean annual Community Relations Christma...

Many Americans, who appear to know — or care — less and less about our nation’s history, nevertheless are likely to have at least a vague understandin...

OLEAN — A merger catalyzed by the umbrella agency of the ReHabilitation Center means the 60-year-old local nonprofit will now be known as Intandem. Ma...

U.S. Rep. Tom Reed said Tuesday he was glad to see President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un “coming together to resolve this thing...

While President Trump is still being attacked by liberals, the mainstream media and the Hollywood left, I really believe he could go down in history a...

When President Trump announced new tariffs of $50 billion to $60 billion on Chinese exports to punish China for stealing United States intellectual pr...

WASHINGTON — Just before the collapse of the Soviet Union, I was in Moscow, talking to our respected and well-informed American ambassador about the f...

ALBANY (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has selected 23 historic sites for inclusion on the state and national registers of historic places. The Demo...

In response to Chuck Pollock’s recent column in the Times Herald, the major problem with the Colin Kaepernick national anthem controversy is the fact ...

A recent detainment at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City left one local doctor asking questions. Dr. M. Javed Akhtar, an otolaryn...

A s mentioned in Monday’s “Turning Back the Clock” edition of State & Union, the United States declared war on Germany 100 years ago today — and Olean...

As World War I raged overseas in its third bloody year, many Americans understood that the carnage would continue — and the United States would eventu...

Remember to “spring ahead” and set your clocks one hour forward tonight for daylight savings time, which takes effect officially at 2 a.m. Sunday. Day...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pledging emphatically to empower America's "forgotten men and women," Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United ...

F rom now-vanquished illnesses to major fire, from the rise of a future mayor to the last chapter in the “Bump the Dump” campaign, here’s a look back ...