Politics
By By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer 
February 23, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan Chase acknowledged for the first time that it closed the bank accounts of President Donald Trump and several of his businesses in the political and legal aftermath of the Jan....
Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s sweeping tariffs
Latest News, Main, Politics
February 21, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s far-reaching global tariffs on Friday, handing him a stinging loss that sparked a furious attack on the court he helped shape. ...
Marco Rubio is the only adult left in the room
Opinion, Politics
February 21, 2026
Finally free from the demands of being chief archivist of the United States, secretary of state, national security adviser and unofficial viceroy of Venezuela, Marco Rubio made his way to the Munich S...
Around The Valley, Politics
February 21, 2026
Meetings in local government next week Every week, the Mon Valley Independent editorial staff will share upcoming government meetings around the Mid-Mon Valley. If there’s an item or other event of pu...
Politics, World Briefly
February 21, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump warned on Friday that limited strikes against Iran are possible even as the country’s top diplomat said Tehran expects to have a proposed deal ready in the nex...
Stopping the steal for real
Opinion, Politics
February 20, 2026
“Stop the Steal!” That was President Trump’s rallying cry as he protested — frequently but falsely — that the 2020 election had been rigged against him. Now that slogan is relevant again — but for two...
Should Trump shake up his Cabinet?
Opinion, Politics
February 19, 2026
Nearly a month into his second year in office, President Trump’s Cabinet has been remarkably stable. No Cabinet member has quit, been fired, pushed out or otherwise left the building. The question is ...
Opinion, Politics
By By LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press 
February 19, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic candidates have notched a series of wins in recent special elections — but a new AP-NORC poll finds views of the Democratic Party among rank-and-file Democrats have not bo...
News, Politics
By By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press 
February 18, 2026
An exhibit about nine people enslaved by George Washington must be restored at his former home in Philadelphia after President Donald Trump’s administration took it down last month, a federal judge ru...
Voter ID shouldn’t be this controversial
Opinion, Politics
February 14, 2026
President Trump says that “Republicans” should “nationalize the election” or at least take over voting in up to 15 places where he says voting is corrupt. His evidence of fraudulent voting is that he ...
News, Politics
February 13, 2026
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Trump administration is ending a massive immigration crackdown that swept across the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and other Minnesota communities, border czar Tom Homan said Thursd...
Opinion, Politics
February 13, 2026
By LISA MASCARO AND KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Wednesday to slap back President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada, a rare if largely symbolic rebuke of the White H...
Opinion, Politics
February 13, 2026
DEBT AND SAVINGS are different columns in the same ledger. Any business can tell you that. So can anyone working on their taxes right now. Like blood circulating in the body, the amount of money in an...
Good for Bad Bunny
Opinion, Politics
February 13, 2026
Good for Bad Bunny. After the Puerto Rican superstar rocked the halftime show at the Super Bowl, Donald Trump derided his performance as “absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER!” Bad Bunny, he th...
The Clintons are so over
Opinion, Politics
February 12, 2026
What do you call a former two-term president of the United States and his wife, a former first lady, secretary of state and nominee for president? In the Democratic Party, you call them baggage. After...
Opinion, Politics
February 12, 2026
PENNSYLVANIA IS OFTEN described as a microcosm of the nation, its blue population centers offset by wide stretches of red and its elections swinging from cycle to cycle. But that political shorthand c...