Should Trump shake up his Cabinet?
Opinion, Politics
February 19, 2026
Nearly a month into his second year in office, President Trump’s Cabinet has been remarkably stable. No Cabinet member has quit, been fired, pushed out or otherwise left the building. The question is ...
Opinion, Politics
By By LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press 
February 19, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic candidates have notched a series of wins in recent special elections — but a new AP-NORC poll finds views of the Democratic Party among rank-and-file Democrats have not bo...
News, Politics
By By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press 
February 18, 2026
An exhibit about nine people enslaved by George Washington must be restored at his former home in Philadelphia after President Donald Trump’s administration took it down last month, a federal judge ru...
Voter ID shouldn’t be this controversial
Opinion, Politics
February 14, 2026
President Trump says that “Republicans” should “nationalize the election” or at least take over voting in up to 15 places where he says voting is corrupt. His evidence of fraudulent voting is that he ...
News, Politics
February 13, 2026
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Trump administration is ending a massive immigration crackdown that swept across the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and other Minnesota communities, border czar Tom Homan said Thursd...
Opinion, Politics
February 13, 2026
By LISA MASCARO AND KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Wednesday to slap back President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada, a rare if largely symbolic rebuke of the White H...
Opinion, Politics
February 13, 2026
DEBT AND SAVINGS are different columns in the same ledger. Any business can tell you that. So can anyone working on their taxes right now. Like blood circulating in the body, the amount of money in an...
Good for Bad Bunny
Opinion, Politics
February 13, 2026
Good for Bad Bunny. After the Puerto Rican superstar rocked the halftime show at the Super Bowl, Donald Trump derided his performance as “absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER!” Bad Bunny, he th...
The Clintons are so over
Opinion, Politics
February 12, 2026
What do you call a former two-term president of the United States and his wife, a former first lady, secretary of state and nominee for president? In the Democratic Party, you call them baggage. After...
Opinion, Politics
February 12, 2026
PENNSYLVANIA IS OFTEN described as a microcosm of the nation, its blue population centers offset by wide stretches of red and its elections swinging from cycle to cycle. But that political shorthand c...
Fighting two wars
Opinion, Politics
February 11, 2026
His grandparents and mother were born in Selma, Alabama, the site of the violence of the 1965 civil rights march that led to the Voting Rights Act. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio, where within 30 yards ...
Opinion, Politics
February 11, 2026
By JOEYCAPPELLETTI, STEVE PEOPLES AND STEVEN SLOAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Governors Association will no longer hold a formal meeting with President Donald Trump when the group...
Opinion, Politics
By By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press 
February 10, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers tried Monday to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, but the former girlfriend and confidant of Jeffrey Epstein invoked her Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answering questions that...
Opinion, Politics
February 10, 2026
SINCE 1957, PENNSYLVANIA has codified a responsibility to make public meetings accessible to the people. The state law also evolved, eventually becoming what is now known as the Sunshine Act. The earl...
Midterm palpitations
Opinion, Politics
February 10, 2026
Recent regional special elections have seen Democratic candidates win a number of special election races. Now energized left-wing politicos remind the nation daily that every incumbent president, exce...
Democrats, White House trade offers as shutdown of Homeland Security looms
Politics, World Briefly
February 10, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have begun tentative talks with the White House on their demands for “dramatic” new restrictions on President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, trading offers just days...
Politics
February 9, 2026
By ALI SWENSON and JEFF AMY Associated Press COLLEGE PARK, Ga. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s second term has presented an array of opportunities for political opponents, from immigration crackdowns ...
Why does the Trump family always get a pass?
Opinion, Politics
February 7, 2026
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche joined ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday to defend or explain a lot of controversies for the Trump administration: the Epstein files release, the events in Minneapo...