Politics
December 13, 2025
Rostraver Township Police held their annual “Santa Cop” event Thursday at the Rostraver Walmart. More than 100 people showed up to buy gifts from the wish lists of students in the Belle Vernon Area Sc...
Things are about to get worse for Mike Johnson
Politics
December 13, 2025
Here’s a conundrum for Republican politicians going into 2026, and even 2028. What do you do when you’ve turned the GOP into a Trump-branded, populist, anti-establishment party but your party controls...
Politics
December 13, 2025
To the Editor: The Elizabeth Forward School District can no longer hide behind the word “emergency.” Emergency procurement exists to address immediate threats to safety and continuity of education— no...
Senate rejects extension of health care subsidies
Politics
December 12, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the begin...
Politics, World Briefly
December 12, 2025
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s Republican-led senate voted against a redrawn congressional map Thursday that would have favored their party in the 2026 elections, despite months of pressure by Presiden...
Politics
December 12, 2025
PENN STATE FACULTY ARE NOT unionized. That could change soon. If the university’s leadership doesn’t like that, it’s their own fault. The Penn State Faculty Alliance turned in thousands of union autho...
Reality is not a hoax
Politics
December 12, 2025
“From the day I take the oath of office, we’ll rapidly drive prices down and make America affordable again.” That was Donald Trump, speaking at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania last year. But this yea...
Politics
December 12, 2025
By LINLEY SANDERS AND WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s approval on the economy and immigration have fallen substantially since March, according to a new AP-NOR...
Trump’s administration separates thousands of migrant families in the U.S.
Extra, Politics
By By GISELA SALOMON Associated Press 
December 12, 2025
MIAMI (AP) — President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy split more than 5,000 children from their families at the Mexico border during his first term. Border crossings sit at a record ...
Trump says the U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela
Politics, World Briefly
December 11, 2025
By AAMER MADHANI AND KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions ...
Politics
December 11, 2025
RENESMAY EUTSEY was supposed to be kept safe. That is why she was removed from the care of her mother, Christina Benedetto, in 2019 when she was 3. It’s why she was placed with Benedetto’s cousin, Sar...
Politics
By By JOEY CAPPELLETTI & THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press 
December 11, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Dallas congresswoman opened her Senate campaign by telling voters that she “has gone toe to toe with Donald Trump.” Her Democratic primary opponent insisted that Americans are tire...
Innocent Venezuelan fishermen: ‘Don’t shoot!’
Politics
December 11, 2025
No matter how much I try to ignore the Democrats’ latest “The Walls Are Closing In” spectacle, it has come to my attention that liberals are hopping mad about our military killing two Venezuelan drug ...
Trump’s speech on combating inflation turns to grievances about immigrants
Politics
December 10, 2025
MOUNT POCONO, Pa. (AP) — On the road in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, President Donald Trump tried to emphasize his focus on combating inflation, yet the issue that has damaged his popularity couldn’t quit...
Politics
By By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press 
December 10, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday granted the Justice Department’s request to publicly release grand jury transcripts and other material from Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking case, citing ...
Politics
December 10, 2025
To the Editor: We The (non-MAGA) People are angry and are not going to take it anymore. We are tired of the constant crimes, lies, and diversionary techniques of this administration and MAGA supporter...
Adam Schiff: If only we’d prosecuted Trump earlier
Politics
December 10, 2025
The Democratic lawfare campaigns against President Donald Trump — two federal prosecutions, an indictment in Georgia, an indictment and conviction in New York, a damaging lawsuit, also in New York — a...