To the Editor: The day after Charlie Kirk was murdered, I read PSALM 94 and it saddened me to think of what is going on in our country, especially when I read verses 20 and 21. In PSALM 94, the proud,...

THERE IS A LOT OF TALK about hate right now. In the wake of the shooting of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, it’s everywhere. It is amplified, but it isn’t new. Hate has been a growing topic of...

For presidents of both parties, one of their primary roles has always been consoler-in-chief, healing wounds, lifting hearts and unifying the nation in times of tragedy. Think of Ronald Reagan, comfor...

PARIS (AP) — A ballooning deficit. A fractious Parliament. Unrest on the streets. The challenges facing Sébastien Lecornu, France’s fourth prime minister in a year, are daunting and defeated his immed...

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, LISA MASCARO AND ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is escalating threats to crack down on what he describes as the “radical left” follow...

Add this to the list of terrible crimes committed by illegal immigrants in the United States: In a Dallas hotel last week, Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, a Cuban in the U.S. illegally, was cleaning a room w...

Washington County’s tourism industry is a major driver for our local economy, and its impact was again highlighted by a study from the Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development (DCED...

E urope is plagued by a number of existential crises. Yet they are all self-inflicted — and by a dominant, therapeutic culture that embraced utopian but lethal bromides. These suicidal wounds are now ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is scheduled to speak about political violence at Tuesday’s Eradicate Hate Global Summit in Downtown Pittsburgh, less than a week after a gunman assassinated conservativ...

WESTMORELAND COUNTY Commissioners are putting the brakes on spending. That makes sense. The county is not exactly swimming in cash. In December 2023, commissioners pivoted toward a last-minute tax inc...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. By LINGGONG KONG PH.D. Candidate in Political Science, Auburn University If the purpose ...

His bill would make the bidding more transparent. State Sen. Nick Pisciottano recently introduced legislation aimed at improving transparency and closing loopholes in the Redevelopment Assistance Capi...

The overhaul of American attitudes toward immigration has many fronts. One is the border, both the southern and northern frontiers. Another is workplaces — Mexican restaurants, manufacturing plants li...

JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he will be seeking answers from Israeli officials about how they see the way forward in Gaza following Israel’s attack on Hamas operatives in ...

WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR HISTORY, it is a timeline where the major marks are often political and frequently violent — and too regularly both. This is not unique to America. It is not a problem of modern hi...

emocrats so enjoyed forcing DAmericans to do silly things during COVID, like starving their children of oxygen and letting Grandma die alone, that they leapt right back to their hectoring at the Senat...

It may not be your imagination that your eyes seem more watery, your throat scratchier and your nose a little runnier. The fall allergy season is underway in Pennsylvania, and it’ll take a hard frost ...

To the Editor: Just when you thought some Democrats couldn’t get any dumber, they go and prove they actually can! The latest brilliant stand is defending the animal that killed that little Ukrainian g...

TRIALS SHOULD HAPPEN AS SOON as possible after the defendant is arrested. The U.S. Constitution spells this out in the Sixth Amendment, the first of several rights afforded. “In all criminal prosecuti...

“My worst day as governor,” Joe Manchin often lamented, “was better than my best day as a senator.” The West Virginia Democrat spent a combined total of 20 years in those two jobs, so he knows what he...