WASHINGTON (AP) — Key senators unveiled a short-term spending bill on Sunday that would keep federal agencies funded past the midterm elections and into early December as they look to avoid a governme...

By AAMER MADHANI AND MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday sharply criticized U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s assessment that damage to the Lincoln Memorial ...

Meetings in local government this week Here is a look at upcoming government meetings around the Mid-Mon Valley this week. If there’s an item or other event of public interest, we’ll include that belo...

I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but it’s almost like the GOP is secretly promoting the Democratic Socialists of America, which is now producing a lot of the energy and excitement within the Democratic ...

To the Editor: The less people think — the more they talk. We should think before we speak about anything and everything. There are thoughts that are best not expressed, orally or written. Donald Trum...

President Trump is kicking out about 350,000 Haitian immigrants who have lived here for many years, raising their children, paying their taxes and contributing to their communities. His actions are bo...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer dozens of questions from senators in a Republican-led committee hearing about his handlin...

There will be funerals this week in Washington, D.C., and in South Carolina for Sen. Lindsey Graham, who died suddenly from a heart condition on July 11. The fact that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

U.S. SEN. JOHN FETTERMAN is siding with Democrats — at least this week. There are some issues nailed into the Republican platform, like tax cuts and deregulation. There are some knitted into the fabri...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democrat Paige Cognetti is taking a shot at artificial intelligence data centers in her challenge to freshman Republican Rep.Rob Bresnahan, saying “we’re not for sale” in a new ...

FRYEBURG, Maine — Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Except this one has a bad temper. Troy Jackson, the new Senate candidate from Maine, was born three years before The Who’s Pete Townshend wro...

The last Democratic candidate to appeal to the white working-class voter was Bill Clinton. He needed every one of those voters in his 1992 and 1996 races. Yet he still failed to win 50 percent of the ...

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Former state lawmaker and logger Troy Jackson secured the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Maine on Saturday and will face longtime GOP Sen. Susan Collins in November in a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is “fomenting hate” by calling the prime minister a war criminal who should be arrested over the war in Gaz...

For over a decade, Donald Trump has demonstrated a shrewd -- even brilliant grasp of what motivates his followers. That’s why he’s won two elections and only barely lost a third. But Trump has always ...

AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — When Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic nominee for Texas governor, began her campaign last year, candidates weren’t talking about — or hearing about — data centers that power artifi...

PHOENIX (AP) — Amish Shah won the Democratic primary Wednesday in a hotly contested congressional district in Arizona, delivering another defeat to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, whi...

In the last week, the war in Iran has seemed like a war again, after a long time in a gray area that was neither war nor peace. Now, with both sides shooting at each other, war is back. And, political...

By JON GAMBRELL and COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House adopted a Republican-only $95 billion budget proposal Wednesday, a long-shot effort to fund the Iran war and other White...

NEWYORK (AP) — When midterm campaigning began, each major political party had a clear game plan. Republicans would emphasize border security and an economy that was finally shaking off years of high i...