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NORTH CONWAY, N.H. — The radio station around here has a popular morning feature called “Talk of the Towns,” and in the past week, the talk of the towns, and of New Hampshire more generally, has been ...

WHAT DO SOLAR FARMS have in common with fracking, strip clubs, halfway houses and landfills? On the surface, it might be hard to see. Solar farms and fracking couldn’t be more different, with one prom...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday amplified his promises to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to Chicago by posting a parody image from “Apocalypse Now” featuring a ...

For many, the evidence is in: Donald Trump wants to be an autocrat. If you haven’t read an op-ed or heard a radio, TV or podcast commentator make that case, it’s probably because you’ve tried hard to ...

A new community pharmacy is coming to the Mon Valley, and that’s great news for many people who were affected by the closures of Rite Aid pharmacies. Penn Highlands Healthcare announced Wednesday plan...

EVERY 10 YEARS, America asks the people to stand up and be counted. This is not about statistics. It’s not keeping score. It is about representation. Congress’ two chambers are populated in different ...

Donald Trump has embraced the slogan MAHA — Make America Healthy Again — but his policies are doing exactly the opposite. Fears are growing in the medical world that his war on science and research wi...

To the Editor: I would like to say that I first came to the United States in 1937 and have all forms to prove it in case I ask something I shouldn’t and would end up in another country. I would simply...

LONDON (AP) — European countries are stuck between a rock and a hard place as a coalition of countries meets in Paris on Thursday to discuss security guarantees for a postwar Ukraine. The war is ragin...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. By JAIME L. KUCINSKAS Associate Professor of Sociology Hamilton College For many America...

THE BUDGET OF MOST AMERICANS is a delicate balancing act. You know what you have coming in and what should be going out. A decrease on one side or an increase on the other can throw it out of whack. T...

one of the When best writers on anti-white racism feels the need to write a column about a noble immigrant, we have to wonder if America’s ethno-masochism has gone too far. Has it been mandated by law...

SEATTLE (AP) — The Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California announced Wednesday that they created an alliance to safeguard health policies, believing the Trump administration is putti...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers are meeting in a special session to redraw the state’s U.S. House districts as part of President Donald Trump’s effort to bolster Republicans’ chances of ...

About 70% of the nation’s public school teachers belong to a union or employees’ association. The two largest teachers unions, the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of T...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Security, sovereignty, tariffs, trade, drugs and migration — all hot-button issues for the Trump administration and its neighbors in the Western Hemisphere — will top Secretary of S...

WHO SHOULD BE HELD LIABLE when a person’s biometric data — their facial features, voice or fingerprints — is misused? Illinois is home to some of the strongest consumer privacy regulations in the coun...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a nod to continuing collaboration, the mayor of Washington, D.C., issued an order Tuesday to continue the work of an emergency operations center the city set up in response to the...