If you are a priest in Nigeria, you stand a good chance of being kidnapped or martyred. “Our nation may collapse if the current situation lingers.” That was the assessment of the Catholic bishops of N...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican and Democratic lawmakers at an impasse on reopening the federal government provided few public signs Sunday of meaningful negotiations taking place to end what has so far ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has embraced the federal shutdown as an “unprecedented opportunity” to slash spending and shrink government, but new rounds of targeted spending cuts from the ...

Of the many changes in our politics — the movement of political power from the Northeast and Midwest to the South and West, the coarsening of our national conversation, the transformations wrought by ...

EVERY DAY IS A NEW FIGHT IN HARRISBURG. Lately, it’s been about the three-months-overdue budget. Discussions on the contentious spending plan are an all-too-familiar battleground. It’s a long-running ...

The West Mifflin community had a lot to celebrate this week with the ribbon cutting and open house for two new facilities that aim to help people of all walks of life. On Wednesday, an open house was ...

Independents are so hot right now — and will be for the foreseeable future. According to a major survey commissioned by CNN, nearly half of all Americans — 44% — call themselves independents while onl...

President Trump has openly boasted about wielding the full power of the federal government to punish his enemies, from universities and foundations to law firms and media companies. But when he person...

THE PENNSYLVANIA BUDGET impasse isn’t the gift that keeps on giving. It’s the thief that keeps on taking. The three-month-long delay in a state spending plan is a dammed-up financial river that has ri...

The Energy Department announced the termination of 223 projects nationwide. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is cancelling $7.6 billion in grants that supported hundreds of clean energy proj...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, by threatening mass firings of workers and sugg...

The federal government began to shut down at 12 a.m. Wednesday as lawmakers failed to resolve a dispute over spending, leading to the first lapse in funding in nearly seven years. The federal governme...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans and Democrats spent the first day of the federal government shutdown blaming each other for the dysfunction, as iconic sites representing the nation’s core identity — fro...

PENNSYLVANIA ENTERED ITS FOURTH month of budget gridlock Wednesday as the only state in the country without some kind of spending plan in place for the coming year. And now, the commonwealth faces the...

In a recent installment of the media’s daily “DISAPPOINTED TRUMP VOTERS” piece, The Washington Post suggests that the MAGA base is mainly upset about tariffs. At least that’s what I gleaned from an ar...

By LINLEY SANDERS AND AMELIA THOMSON- DEVEAUX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump got a significant amount of blame during the last partial government shutdown, which took place ...

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM, JILL COLVIN AND JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press LOGAN, Utah (AP) — Turning Point USA’s college tour will return to Utah on Tuesday for its first event in the state since its ...

By BYRON YORK On May 16, 2023, the Des Moines, Iowa, school board hired Ian Roberts to be its new superintendent. Roberts began the job on July 1, 2023. By the end of July, the board got some surprisi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats have voted down a Republican bill to keep funding the government, putting it on a near certain path to a shutdown after midnight Wednesday for the first time in near...

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