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...

At the “Trumpapalooza” convention in Dallas last month, the president urged his followers to “cheat like hell” in this fall’s election, now just two weeks away. The man who insists — with no evidence ...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. By KENNETH GREENE Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin Politics is abo...

By ALI SWENSON AND LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Daemien Williams used to trust U.S. election results, but not anymore. The 50-year-old Democrat in Centreville, Illinois, worries t...

By JOSH BOAK, BECKY BOHRER AND BILL BARROW Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is hoping that $5,000 checks can juice Republican turnout in November’s midterm elections — but eve...

been said many times It’s that a president’s job approval rating is one of the most important predictors of how his party will perform in midterm elections. President Trump’s rating is very low at the...

O uch. That book cover really hurts. Portrayed against a sky-blue background is a drawing of a figure that is unmistakably Uncle Sam. He’s costumed in red-and-white-striped trousers and a sleeveless b...

Come Election Day, a Quaker leader will travel from the nation’s capital to her home state of Ohio. A Christian minister and a Jewish rabbi will stand vigil outside a polling place in Arizona. A Buddh...

LUBBAN AL-SHARQIYA, West Bank (AP) — Extreme speech has surged under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s farright government and can be heard at the highest levels ahead of Israel’s Oct. 27 el...

The strategy aims to help farmers with rising costs of operation & workforce shortages. Farmers across the state could benefit from a new 10-year agricultural strategy aimed at improving access to fun...

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ, WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS, RIO YAMAT, DEE-ANN DURBIN, ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — More than seven months into the U.S. war with Iran, sharp...

CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (AP) — Chris Martinez feels like Donald Trump has made a fool of him. The 28-year-old maintenance technician from Casa Grande, Arizona, voted for the Republican president expecting ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In Wisconsin, a narrator complains that “groceries, utilities, everything’s getting more expensive and Congressman (Derrick) Van Orden is adding to the list. He voted for the costly ...

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...

For reasons that will baffle my many detractors, I am often asked for advice about being an opinion journalist. One of my standard responses is: You have to be willing to disappoint your biggest fans....

By JILL COLVIN AND AARON KESSLER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump says he wants voters to pretend that he’s on the ballot in this year’s midterm elections. His rivals are doing ...

“President Trump has been saying, ‘Vote as if I was on the ballot,’ and that’s exactly what I’m going to do — not vote,” Brandon Tremaine, a graduate student in Texas who voted for Trump in 2020, told...

IT CAN BE HARD TO GET PEOPLE to participate in local government. The typical municipal meeting agenda covers important but routine business. Approve the minutes. Pay the bills. Residents are more like...

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, expresses irritation when he is asked about his association with Hasan Piker, the streamer/provocateur who said America deserved 9/11. “I’m...

LAMBS GROVE, Iowa — Move over, soccer moms, forget about NASCAR dads and dismiss even the “bunch of childless cat ladies” that JD Vance identified — all shorthands for critical voting groups in past e...