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HARTFORD, Conn. — The 10-word telegram sizzled through the Western Union wires from Hartford to Manhattan and must have dropped in like a hand grenade in the Yankees’ offices on 42nd Street.

PITTSBURGH — Much is still to be learned about new president of hockey operations Kyle Dubas and his long-term vision for the Penguins, and we will need more than one month before we can draw conclusions about his tenure. But one thing was apparent in recent days. The man sure…

Q: My husband and I have an ongoing dispute. Don't worry: No matter what, your answer won't precipitate a divorce! My question, which is for all the marbles: Does a car cool off more quickly if one opens the windows while waiting for the A/C to kick in, even in…

On the economic merits, we support President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel more than $400 billion in student loan debt for 26 million Americans. Rejecting more sweeping proposals that would have benefited the already well-off, the president and his Education Department smartly focused the most relief on those in the…

Imagine Rep. Jane Smith voted against a bill to censor public libraries.

BALTIMORE — Because of its scope — 30 shot, two dead — Sunday’s horror in the Brooklyn neighborhood puts Baltimore squarely in the second category of gun violence in America: not the day-to-day carnage we’ve seen for years, but the mass casualties that have caused sudden death and searing pain…

The grim news courses through the latest Nation’s Report Card: Half a century of educational “progress” has yielded no progress at all. The National Center for Education Statistics’ long-term trend assessments for American 13-year-olds in math and reading make for tough reading. The upshot? Reading scores fell to where they…

The Supreme Court has just saved American taxpayers more than half a trillion dollars by holding that President Joe Biden and Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona cannot cancel federal student loans under the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003, the “HEROES Act.”

LOS ANGELES– The Pirates didn’t face Clayton Kershaw, but they sure did their best to make the Dodgers’ Monday night starter resemble him.