“It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas... everywhere you go.” Remember when this familiar melody signaled the beginning of the Christmas season? Many years have co...
Some stories are timeless ... like the letter an 8-year-old girl wrote 116 years ago to the editor of the New York Sun.
Every year, at this season, the Butler Eagle repr...
The Supreme Court made the right call two years ago when it found unconstitutional state laws mandating a life sentence without parole for minors convicted of grievous c...
Just a year ago, at a memorial service for Nelson Mandela in South Africa, President Barack Obama set tongues wagging by greeting Cuba’s President Raul Castro with a han...
NEW YORK — Now that U.S. intelligence officials believe North Korea was behind the cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, the discussion has moved away finally from...
Candidate Barack Obama said that, as president, he would talk to anti-American dictators without precondition. He didn’t mention that he would also give them historic po...
Two recent events have cast some doubt about the seemingly bright future of fracking in various parts of the country. The first has to do with a few voter-driven efforts...
Two years ago, a Taliban gunman boarded a school bus in Pakistan and fired a shot that outraged the world. He seriously wounded 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai. She recover...
WASHINGTON — The Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee issued a fascinating and largely overlooked report the other day highlighting how little Congress and the White...
U.S. health care spending has never grown as slowly as it did last year.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was in the Oval Office when the U.S. government began recording health-care...
