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The US justice department has opened an investigation into Roman Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania accused of covering up sexual abuse for decades, a (...)

Bishops and other leaders of the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania covered up child sexual abuse by hundreds of priests over a period of 70 years, persu(...)

Hillary Clinton has said she is “ready to come out of the woods” and help Americans find common ground. Clinton’s gradual return to the public spotli(...)

Watching Donald Trump’s freak show of a press conference, it’s painfully clear that we have all made a terrible mistake. For the last several months(...)

Emigrating to Pennsylvania at the age of 10 in 1987 was quite an experience. We left behind the bustling metropolis of Dublin for a little town that s(...)

When Al Heller went into his polling booth last week, he took the vote he had given to Barack Obama and handed it, enthusiastically, to Donald Trump.(...)

Key figures in the Clinton and Trump campaigns are sweeping across Florida this week as the two sides scramble to shore up support amid signs of a tig(...)

A good place to start was where people were buried. Historian Jim Walsh began his research about 13 years ago and, intent on finding out more about th(...)

In the evening rush-hour, a steady stream of customers arrive at the upmarket Wegmans supermarket in King of Prussia to pick up dinner at the gourmet (...)

What a load of malarkey! Vice-president Joe Biden wheeled out his favourite catchphrase to jab Republican Donald Trump over his own: “You’re Fired!” (...)