Politics
December 18, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic senators on Wednesday hammered the Federal Communications Commission’s leader for pressuring broadcasters to take ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off the air, suggesting ...
Politics
December 18, 2025
MORE THAN 30 YEARS AGO, an investigating grand jury last sat to hear and deliberate evidence in Westmoreland County. That was in the 1980s when prosecutors were exploring allegations of law enforcemen...
Politics
December 17, 2025
DO YOU HAVE TWO SPARE hours each week that if you don’t put them to good use, they will be lost forever? Two hours that could be put to good use by doing something special to help some of your neighbo...
Are Democrats getting desperate about Epstein?
Politics
December 17, 2025
For months now, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein has been the Democratic Party’s go-to subject for attacks on President Donald Trump. Yes, other events have presented an occasional target of opport...
Politics, World News
By By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press 
December 17, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced Tuesday it was expanding travel restrictions to an additional 20 countries and the Palestinian Authority, doubling the number of nations affected b...
Trump admin. says White House ballroom construction is a matter of national security
Politics
By By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press 
December 17, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said in a court filing Monday that the president’s White House ballroom construction project must continue for unexplained national security reasons and beca...
Politics
December 16, 2025
THERE IS A PARTICULAR HORROR in violent attacks on holy days and in holy places. This is terror in its purest form, rendering a people not only fearful to express their faith, but also to forever asso...
Cry the beloved Europe?
Politics
December 16, 2025
Nothing bothers the European elite as much as American conservatives praising the European foundations of their shared, but threatened, Western civilization. Europeans especially resent having their s...
The struggle and hope of joy
Politics
December 16, 2025
Joy has long been a component of the retail landscape this time of year. I’ve seen it on department store windows in Manhattan — most amusingly nearby St. Francis of Assisi Church. Of course, even if ...
Pardons are political, with modern presidents expanding their use
Politics
December 16, 2025
The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. By STEWART ULRICH Assistant Professor of Political Science, Sam Houston State University...
Politics
December 15, 2025
WHEN PUBLIC MONEY IS SPENT, the people deserve to know the ins and outs. It’s encouraging to see Harrisburg lawmakers on this particular bandwagon. The state Senate Intergovernmental Operations Commit...
Is the tide turning in Maine?
Politics
December 15, 2025
PORTLAND, Maine -- An entrenched senator distrusted by both parties. A governor born just 18 months after 79-year-old Donald Trump. An oyster farmer who for years walked around with a Nazi symbol tatt...
Politics
December 15, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading candidate to be President Donald Trump’s choice for Federal Reserve chair said that he would present the president’s views to Fed officials for their consideration but they...
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...