Politics
By By MATT O?BRIEN AP Technology Writer 
July 25, 2025
Tech companies looking to sell their artificial intelligence technology to the federal government must now contend with a new regulatory hurdle: prove their chatbots aren’t “woke.” President Donald Tr...
Politics
July 25, 2025
THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN. On Wednesday, Saint Vincent College in Unity became the center of the Pittsburgh Steelers universe as players arrived on the scene for their annual training camp. This is wh...
Crusade on comedy is no laughing matter
Politics
July 25, 2025
Humor has always been a central element of any successful political system. Dating back to ancient Rome, jesters and fools have often been the only truth-tellers who could say out loud, “The emperor h...
Politics
July 24, 2025
THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL leadership did the right thing Monday in suspending a corrections officer. Brian Davis has worked at the jail for five years. He most recently worked in the facility’s intake...
Politics
July 24, 2025
To the Editor: What do you think about Trump’s cute little bawdy letter that he sent to his good buddy, Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday, the one that The Wall Street Journal revealed? House Spea...
Make America great again has never been so spot on
Politics
July 24, 2025
Oh look, another American’s been beheaded by a Mexican. This week’s beheader is Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez, an illegal alien who, according to the Department of Homeland Security, decapitated 37-year-...
Politics
July 23, 2025
THE TOTAL POPULATION of senior citizens is 55.8 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Of that, 1.3 million are in nursing homes. That’s about 2.3%. Maybe that doesn’t seem like a lot, but the ...
Politics
By By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press 
July 23, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law will add $3.4 trillion to federal deficits through 2034, the Congressional Budget Office reported Monday, a slight increase in the proje...
Politics
July 23, 2025
To the Editor: The pied piper of D.C. — aka Donald J. Trump. An appropriate title for a perfect example of an individual who is responsible for a deteriorating government — a decline in the America th...
Measuring what Americans think about immigration
Politics
July 23, 2025
Over the weekend, CBS News published a new poll with the headline, “Poll finds support for Trump’s deportation program falls.” The story seemed straightforward. But the story behind the story is worth...
The world woke up
Politics
July 22, 2025
In less than six months, the entire world has been turned upside down. There is no longer such a thing as conventional wisdom or the status quo. The unthinkable has become the banal. Take illegal immi...
The problems with surrogacy
Politics
July 22, 2025
God bless Martina Navratilova. She said an honest, courageous thing about surrogacy. The Czechoslovakia-born tennis legend was responding to an article on egg donation. The author of the piece had pos...
Trump threatens to hold off deal if ‘Redskins’ don’t return to Washington
NFL, Politics, Sports
July 22, 2025
CLEVELAND (AP) — President Donald Trump is threatening to hold up a new stadium deal for Washington’s NFL team if it does not restore its old name of the Redskins, which was considered offensive to Na...
The time is right for questions of character
Politics
July 21, 2025
Can it be a coincidence, or merely a case of synchronicity, that in the age of Trump — a decade-long epoch that began in 2015 — several serious, high-profile books have been written about presidential...
Politics
July 21, 2025
THE PENNSYLVANIA ENERGY and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University was ostensibly, as the name implied, about energy and innovation. In reality, it was about money and jobs. The event provide...
Politics
July 21, 2025
By THOMAS BEAUMONT AND JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are encountering early headaches in Senate races viewed as pivotal to maintaining the party’s majority in next year’s ...