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By By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer 
August 29, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — When the White House fired Susan Monarez as director of the premier U.S. public health agency, it was clear to two of the scientific leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prev...
Who could be next?
Politics
August 29, 2025
On a quiet street in suburban Maryland, not far from where I live, the FBI raided the home of John Bolton, a card-carrying conservative who served as Donald Trump’s national security adviser and is no...
Politics
August 29, 2025
ACROSS WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA, kids are going back to school. The college dorms are overflowing. The high school football games are lighting up Friday nights. School buses are back on the roads taking l...
Politics
August 28, 2025
THE HISTORY OF DRUG USE in America is not necessarily a story of opium dens and crack houses. It’s a story of substances that weren’t illegal until they were abused. Patent medicines might be everythi...
Fake news replaced by fake ‘experts’
Politics
August 28, 2025
The new method of journalism is to wake up, scratch yourself, announce this is what I think and then find someone who agrees with you to cite as an “expert.” This honorific is generally given either t...
Politics
By By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Politics Writer 
August 28, 2025
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Democratic National Committee is seriously considering scrambling the party’s 2028 presidential primary calendar. And South Carolina — the state that hosted the Democrats’ first...
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Enough is
August 27, 2025
To the Editor: Every executive order the left doesn’t like they run to a biased petulant judge to hold up the agenda of Trump’s administration. The administration is forced to appeal over and over kno...
Why Kilmar Abrego Garcia is still important
Politics
August 27, 2025
Consider two recent stories about illegal immigration. The first is the continuing saga of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran who illegally crossed the border and is charged with human smuggling in ...
Politics
August 26, 2025
IT IS NO SECRET that President Donald Trump does not like mail-in voting. “Tremendous potential for voter fraud, and for whatever reason, doesn’t work out well for Republicans,” he said of it on Twitt...
What is the Democratic alternative to Trump?
Politics
August 26, 2025
The Pavlovian Left goes berserk at the mere prospect of each new Trump initiative. Its escalating reactive venom and hysteria are calibrated to the success of Trump’s latest policy. Yet the new hard-l...
Safe haven in Ohio
Politics
August 26, 2025
“At noon on Thursday, a crowd gathered outside the Wapakoneta Fire Department, their eyes looking at the small but powerful addition to the building: the new Safe Haven Baby Box. With one simple cut o...
Get acquainted with John Buchan
Politics
August 25, 2025
Sparkling wine flowed, hors d’oeuvres were passed, speeches were given. There were panel discussions, an archives tour, a reception and dinner. I wasn’t there, and you weren’t either. Nor was anyone y...
Politics
August 23, 2025
To the Editor: To the “victor” go the “spoils.” The “victor” is Donald Trump. The “spoils” are the rewards and benefits that come with that victory. The war began when Trump won the 2024 presidential ...
Politics
August 23, 2025
Classrooms opened for many this week. But students have already been practicing and preparing for fall sports, including the start of the new football season. Several area teams kicked off Friday nigh...
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August 23, 2025
The Russian leader won’t meet with Volodymyr Zelenskyy until some of his demands are met. WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump started the week declaring a diplomatic breakthrough in his bid ...
Politics
August 22, 2025
REMEMBER WHEN OLD MOVIES and television shows gave us the impression quicksand was the great scourge lurking beneath our feet? Nope. The number of deaths due to quicksand is so small it’s not statisti...
Mother Market always wins
Politics
August 22, 2025
As the ancient saying goes, “You can’t fool Mother Nature.” As Donald Trump is finding out, you can’t fool Mother Market, either. Trump’s own economic policies, from raising tariffs to restricting imm...
Politics
August 21, 2025
By JIM VERTUNO AND NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas House on Wednesday approved redrawn congressional maps that would give Republicans a bigger edge in 2026, muscling ...