WASHINGTON — This year’s most important election will not occur in November, when more than 90 million votes will be cast for governors and national legislators. The mos...
The United States and Cuba have been locked in the coldest of relationships for more than half a century. But a new poll suggests that the American people think it’s tim...
From the time it was passed four years ago, the health care reform law has been controversial. In the final months of last year, the news focused on the disastrous rollo...
As an adult, Shirley Temple Black shed her signature ringlets, became a Republican fundraiser and went on to a career as a respected diplomat in the Nixon, Ford and Geor...
The recent death of Philip Seymour Hoffman, apparently of a heroin overdose, says a lot about the epidemic of opiate abuse gripping the United States.
That epidemic, whi...
“You’re not the boss of me!”
This declaration sums up the latest temper tantrum thrown Friday by Butler County Commissioner Jim Eckstein. He repeatedly and painfully dem...
Despite assurances from Comcast that its proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable is pro-consumer, there is growing public concern that consumers will be the losers if ...
President Barack Obama has more in common with his Republican colleagues in Washington than he lets on: They all seem to fear what will happen if the Affordable Care Act...
The U.S. State Department finally has given the Keystone XL pipeline an unexpectedly “green” light. In a Jan. 31 report, the agency found the pipeline wouldn’t cause sig...
A cheer-salute to Ben Lesniak, a 2011 Knoch High School graduate who helped avert a highway disaster early Sunday morning.
Lesniak, 21, now a cadet at the U.S. Coast Gua...
