Politics
March 5, 2026
By DAVID BAUDER, MEG KINNARD AND ALI SWENSON Associated Press Writers NEW YORK (AP) — For President Donald Trump, some of the sharpest criticism he’s faced in the early days of the Iran war has come f...
Opinion, Politics
To the point
March 4, 2026
To the Editor: A filter is defined as a material that allows certain substances to pass while keeping other substances out. In referring to a filter as a mechanism used by an individual as one conveys...
Netanyahu takes a gamble on American support for Israel with the war against Iran
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By By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press 
March 4, 2026
Throughout his political career, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has steered his country along two pillars of foreign policy: an ironclad partnership with the United States and a relentless ...
Some celebrate in Iran, but deep fear and uncertainty remain
Opinion, Politics
March 2, 2026
By AMIR-HUSSEIN RADJY, SARAH EL DEEB, KAREEM CHEHAYEB and LEE KEATH Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Some of the jubilation was open and even raucous — people dancing in Iranian streets, honking car horn...
Opinion, Politics
By By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press 
February 28, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton testified Friday before members of Congress investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, answering for his connections to the disgraced financi...
The world may be done bending to Trump’s will
Opinion, Politics
February 28, 2026
Imight as well say it clearly: I’m for regime change in Iran. The Islamic fanatics who have been running Iran since 1979 are murderers, torturers and exporters of terrorism. They are despised, or at l...
An angry Gov. Josh Shapiro pledges to block ICE detention centers in Pa.
Extra, Politics
February 28, 2026
By The Philadelphia Inquirer Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro met with leaders in Berks and Schuylkill counties Thursday as those communities confront the planned federal conversion of two warehouses in...
Looking straight ahead
Opinion, Politics
February 27, 2026
Donald Trump has waged war on the news media his entire career, frequently deriding journalists as “enemies of the people” and “real scum.” In his second term, he has gone far beyond name-calling, sui...
Opinion, Politics
February 26, 2026
TARIFFS HAVE CREATED economic confusion over the past year. Some don’t really understand what they are or how they impact prices in the U.S. Some support them as an American trade policy even if they ...
Is time running out for sanctuary cities?
Opinion, Politics
February 26, 2026
In the end, the conflict between federal immigration authorities and protesters in Minneapolis boiled down to one fundamental policy question: Should sanctuary cities be allowed to exist? Should citie...
Views of Trump’s State of the Union address among area officials split along party lines
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By LADIMIR GARCIA lgarcia@yourmvi.com 
February 25, 2026
Views of the address among area officials were split along party lines. President Donald Trump declared during Tuesday’s marathon State of the Union that “we’re winning so much,” saying he’d sparked a...
Opinion, Politics
February 25, 2026
To the Editor: After the fall of the Soviet Union, Mayor Yuri Luzhkov turned Moscow’s Public Works Department into a personally-owned construction company. For a while his wife was the richest woman i...
Why exactly did they destroy the border?
Opinion, Politics
February 24, 2026
Why would any president destroy the U.S. southern border? The Left typically “pounces” on anyone daring to suggest that the Biden administration had green-lighted illegal immigration to gain new const...
Opinion, Politics
February 23, 2026
PENNSYLVANIA LAWMAKERS are embroiled in the annual dance in balancing our collective checkbook — the state budget. At the same time, the Keystone State is offering a tax exemption to data center devel...
Opinion, Politics
By By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer 
February 23, 2026
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AP) — Over and over, the Republicans and former Republicans who gathered just outside Washington this weekend warned that President Donald Trump and his allies in Congress are te...