CHICKENS ARE NOT INHERENTLY political, but they can be dragged into politics clucking and crowing. French King Henry IV is believed to be the first to wish “a chicken in every pot” for his people in t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was somberly contemplative and unusually conciliatory after confronting what he saw as a third attempt on his life in less than two years. He suggested that hi...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio has a contested Republican primary for governor fast approaching, but there are few signs that the top candidate sees it as a competitive race. Vivek Ramaswamy has parlayed ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — President Donald Trump is sending his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Pakistan to meet with Iran’s foreign minister, the White House said Friday, as officials in the South A...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, who helped push the term “ fake news “ into the mainstream, now seems to have a new favorite subject: fake math. During a Thursday event announcing a deal wit...

By Associated Press HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s treasurer refused Thursday to approve payments for more than $1 million in security systems and other upgrades to the private home of Gov. Josh Shapiro,...

By LINLEY SANDERS AND AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Many of the groups that helped elect Donald Trump as president again are deeply unhappy with his performance, according ...

Virginia voters decided this week to give state legislators the power to redraw congressional boundaries for next fall’s elections. It’s a big win for Democrats, who could gain as many as four additio...

If anyone knows that President Donald Trump, for all his bluster, can mean what he says, it is the Iranians. Trump is the president who took out the powerful Qasem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Quds ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s nominee to chair the Federal Reserve said Tuesday that he never promised the White House that he would cut interest rates, even as the president renewed his ...

THE PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE OF Representatives is giving people reason to be optimistic. The lawmakers gave their approval Tuesday to the 2026-27 budget. The good news? This is the earliest a budget has mo...

ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat and the first Black chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, has died. He was 80. Scott, who was seeking his 13th term in Congress despite ...

To the Editor: Are we getting closer to the downfall of President Donald Trump? Will it be sooner or later? By recent actions, remarks, unexplainable activities and lack of accountability, Donald Trum...

Donald Trump, president of the United States, meet Pyrrhus, king of Epirus. The leader of the great military force and industrial powerhouse of 2026 who went to war with mighty bombers, missiles and d...

The prognosis of the Iran war is now so couched in politics and so warped by the American Left that the public has grown tired and wants it all to go away. But in truth, the situation is so fluid that...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. By TONY WOOD Assistant Professor of History, Modern Latin America, University of Colorad...

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer acknowledged Monday that he made the wrong judgment when he appointed Peter Mandelson as U.K. ambassador to Washington, but said he would not have don...

Financial filings with the Federal Election Commission had to be submitted last Wednesday. By TOM FONTAINE TribLive Congressional incumbents seeking reelection in Western Pennsylvania have significant...

The Democratic governor wants a more flexible tax credit that’s focused on job creation. By CHARLOTTE KEITH Spotlight PA HARRISBURG — For the second year in a row, Gov. Josh Shapiro is asking Pennsylv...

THERE ARE SOME JOBS you just can’t have forever. In Pennsylvania, that’s written into law in some places and left entirely to voters in others. Governors are limited to two terms. That wasn’t always t...