WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats are preparing a vast oversight agenda, with investigations of President Donald Trump, his family and his administration if the party sweeps control of the chamber fro...

MEDINAH, Ill. (AP) — President Donald Trump returned to the Presidents Cup as honorary chairman for the second time, getting a loud cheer and keeping his remarks brief. “These people want to see golf,...

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — People crowded shoulder to shoulder upstairs in a south Alabama coffee shop, in a region sometimes called the reddest in the heavily conservative state. They were there to hear Dou...

Work requirements for some Medicaid beneficiaries begin across the U.S. in January, the result of President Donald Trump’s big 2025 tax cut and policy law, and a handful of Republican-led states are i...

Meetings in local government next week Every week, the Mon Valley Independent editorial staff will share upcoming government meetings around the Mid-Mon Valley. If there’s an item or other event of pu...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite rising political anxiety over the Iran war, senators on Thursday narrowly rejected a war powers resolution seeking to halt President Donald Trump ‘s military action, which ha...

The flight of Hispanic voters from the Republican Party is one of the most important trends this political season, and a few numbers explain why. In the latest New York Times poll, only 7% of Hispanic...

By JILL COLVIN AND AARON KESSLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are growing increasingly grim about their chances in November, with aligned groups pumping money into reliably red state...

Did you know that recently released Census Bureau statistics show the poverty rate in the United States fell to a record low in 2025? That’s an extraordinary development, but it has so far not attract...

Barney Frank, the irascible but indispensable liberal lawmaker from Massachusetts who died this spring, was never known as a man of few words. Yet the opening of his book, issued posthumously just the...

TWICE DURING PRESIDENT TRUMP’S first term, his administration tried to prevent a journalist whose work it did not like from reporting at the White House. Twice, judges rejected the moves as unconstitu...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. By WAYNE UNGER Associate Professor of Law, Quinnipiac University The president is going ...

By ERIC TUCKER AND ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Before taking over the sprawling Justice Department investigation into foes of President Donald Trump, Joe diGenova decried t...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney now believes he is more than just the Western foil to President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement—he is the global one. Accordingly, he seems determined to demonst...

Good news from McKeesport! The feckless administrations of former state Sen. Jimmy Brewster and former Mayor Mike Cherepko have been replaced by new Mayor Tom Maglicco. It is a great improvement. Magl...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands is preparing for the United States to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court in the latest escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks ...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. By ANDREW LATHAM Professor of Political Science, Macalester College “Better dead than re...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump first ran for office, he called out China as a menace to the U.S. economy, saying it had gutted America’s factories and eroded the middle class. That toug...

NEW YORK (AP) — Reporters from three major news organizations — CNN, MS NOW and Politico — were denied access to the White House on Saturday, a day after President Donald Trump said he was barring the...

DETROIT (AP) — Mike Rogers stood outside Cody High School on Detroit’s west side on a recent drizzly morning and decried Michigan’s decline in reading achievement. “This is the civil rights issue of o...