CHARLESTON, S.C. — On an artificial island 4 miles from downtown stands an unlikely reminder of the cost of national disunion, a granite monument to discord, both a reminder of the price of division a...

Vice President JD Vance on Sunday said there will be deeper cuts to the federal workforce the longer the government shutdown goes on, adding to the uncertainty facing hundreds of thousands who are alr...

To the Editor: A short time ago I noticed an article in the paper stating that all Democrats are dummies and left-wing radicals. In that case, these right-wing conservatives must be the group that rep...

The judiciary isn’t supposed to be the primary check on the executive, the legislative branch is. Whatever you think about American politics and government, whether you are on the right, the left or s...

It’s not too late to make plans today, and why not spend it participating in an event that benefits people from our own communities. Today is the 22nd annual Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital Foundat...

Pennsylvania has joined nearly two dozen other states in taking legal action in an attempt to stop President Trump from deploying National Guard troops to U.S. cities. The multistate amicus brief argu...

WITH FUNDING EXPIRED, new appropriations bills stalled and progress on a stopgap nonexistent, Congress has for the 15th time since 1981 allowed the federal government to shut its doors. Don’t expect t...

John McLaughlin is not sugarcoating the problem. A longtime Republican pollster who has worked closely with President Trump, Mc-Laughlin writes on the conservative website Townhall that the current go...

President Trump has been a whirling dervish of activity. Since his inauguration, it’s been a joy to read the news. Nothing but good news all the time. In a single day about a week after he was sworn i...

POLITICS IS UGLY. Elections can be the worst expression of that ugliness. In recent years, the voting process has become riddled with skepticism, distrust and hostility. But does it have to be? Is the...

To the Editor: In the past we had a few bad presidents. Now we not only have a bad president, we have a dangerous one. He is out of control because he has so much control and that makes him very dange...

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Britain’s Conservatives used to boast they were the world’s most successful political party. Not anymore. The center-right party that governed the U.K. for more than 60 of t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A partisan battle is playing out in a Washington courtroom that could decide the fate of President Donald Trump’s federal law enforcement intervention in the nation’s capital. Dozens...

One of the main themes of the second Trump administration has been the explosive collision between the president’s determination to enforce federal immigration law and many Democratic leaders’ determi...

To the Editor: Hey MAGA, do you need a chiropractor after turning yourself into pretzels defending Jeffrey Epstein’s good friend, Trumpy Dumpy? On the campaign trail, TACO said he would release the Ep...

Historians traditionally blame the failure of the League of Nations—the post-World War I, Versailles-era dream of President Woodrow Wilson—on many things. Its membership was small (58 nations). The Le...

If you are a priest in Nigeria, you stand a good chance of being kidnapped or martyred. “Our nation may collapse if the current situation lingers.” That was the assessment of the Catholic bishops of N...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican and Democratic lawmakers at an impasse on reopening the federal government provided few public signs Sunday of meaningful negotiations taking place to end what has so far ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has embraced the federal shutdown as an “unprecedented opportunity” to slash spending and shrink government, but new rounds of targeted spending cuts from the ...

Of the many changes in our politics — the movement of political power from the Northeast and Midwest to the South and West, the coarsening of our national conversation, the transformations wrought by ...