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...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — As he seeks to retain his U.S. Senate seat this fall, Ohio Republican Jon Husted has been unable to escape the shadow of a $60 million bribery scandal that has roiled state polit...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a video address released Sunday that Canada’s strong economic ties to the United States were once a strength but are now ...

RIVERTON, Utah (AP) — When a dozen Republican activists gathered on a back deck in the Salt Lake City suburbs to talk about this year’s elections, the conversation cycled through all the staples of co...

Viktor Orban, the proudly “illiberal” prime minister of Hungary, beloved by various New Right nationalists and MAGA American intellectuals, was crushed at the polls this weekend. Over the last decade ...

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI AND LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House early Friday approved a short-term renewal until April 30 of a controversial surveillance program used by U.S. spy age...

By MIKE CATALINI AND JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press Democrats are boasting of eye-popping fundraising hauls in some of this year’s top Senate contests, a potential sign of voter enthusiasm in wha...

Vice President JD Vance, a recent convert to Catholicism, berated Pope Leo XIV about his doctrinal duties. The Supreme Pontiff, Vance lectured, should “stick to matters of morality” and avoid politics...

Vice President JD Vance faced an impossible task trying to negotiate an end to the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. That Vance failed is no surprise, given Iran’s so-far implacable resistance to the dem...

By BILL BARROW AND EMILIE MEGNIEN Associated Press ATHENS, Georgia (AP) — Fresh from a marathon trip to Pakistan that failed to reach a deal for ending the war with Iran, Vice President JD Vance jette...

To the Editor: TACO made a lot of promises to the hard-working citizens of the U.S. He said we would get tired of winning but didn’t tell us when this winning was going to start. He said on his first ...

War is a great engine of change, sweeping aside assumptions, toppling established power relationships, driving new forces into play, rearranging long-held theories and challenging orthodoxies. That ha...

Pope Leo XIV, a studious and soft-spoken cleric, and Donald Trump, an unapologetically bellicose and pugilistic politician, have long been on a rhetorical collision course. Now their disagreement over...

The Left and some on the Right went crazy over President Donald Trump’s recent tweet. He warned that if the Iranian regime did not cease blocking the international Strait of Hormuz, he would hit its d...

If you don’t know former Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, he’s the first to tell you these days that he wasn’t ready for the fight of Washington, in some respects. He wasn’t a politician -- honestly, the man ...