One reason why the public turned on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) was its insistence that roughly 70% of the country was stereotyped as victimizers by virtue of their skin color. In contrast,...

“Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith.” That’s not my interpretation; it’s a quote from a judge’s order. “This fact is so unimagi...

Hundreds of thousands of photos were taken of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. And yet, there are only four known photos of him in a wheelchair. This was deliberate. FDR hid his disability from polio, even ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A government report released on Thursday covering wide swaths of American health and wellness reflects some of the most contentious views on vaccines, the nation’s food supply, pesti...

IF YOU DON’T VOTE, YOU CAN’T COMPLAIN. We’ve all heard this saying before, but never has it rung so true than for Tuesday’s primary election. Despite beginning the process to elect local leaders who w...

Sen. Josh Hawley is a deeply conservative and decidedly ambitious Republican from Missouri who hopes to run for president. In an extraordinary essay for The New York Times, he broke sharply from Donal...

NIPPON STEEL IS PUTTING MORE MONEY on the table. But will it matter? The nearly $15 billion elephant in the room is the Japanese company’s offer to acquire Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel. It’s a deal tha...

By LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING, LEAH ASKARINAM AND JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defying opposition within his ranks, House Speaker Mike Johnson insisted late Wednesday that Repu...

Possible article in The New York Times: For more than a century, most scientists and researchers have agreed that smoking has nothing to do with lung cancer. But now, the fringe theory that smoking is...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump implored House Republicans at the Capitol to drop their fights over his big tax cuts bill and get it done, using encouraging words but also the hardened langua...

There has been a certain escalatory logic in the resistance to Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency. In the very beginning, when few took him seriously, they laughed at him. Then they tried to defeat...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has announced the concept he wants for his future Golden Dome missile defense program — a multilayered, $175 billion system that for the first time will put U....

IS THERE NOTHING THAT CAN HAPPEN in Harrisburg without division? On Tuesday, we wrote about two bills wending their way through the Legislature. In the Senate, Republicans passed a bill banning transg...

The editorial department of the Mon Valley Independent encourages letters to the editor. Letters must be no more than 500 words, must be in good taste and must include the author’s name, town of resid...

Pundits are confused about what to make of the first 100 days of the second Trump administration. Supporters talk of “flooding the zone,” believing President Donald Trump is making so many changes so ...

Once Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the news anchors and reporters and podcasters — and anyone else with an excuse or a budget to go to Rome — have gone home, there will stil...

TODAY IS THE PRIMARY ELECTION, and while it might not attract the widespread attention and participation of a presidential race, what happens today holds the potential to most personally affect area r...

An aggressive administration fires federal employees, changes geographical names and appoints a vaccine skeptic to high office. Opponents of the president challenge many of his initiatives in court. T...

IF YOU HAVE BEEN IN A RITE AID in recent months, the news of store closings was probably not a surprise. Many shelves are barely stocked. Outside of the pharmacy, the stores often have a ghost-town ap...

KOZLOWSKA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said he plans to speak by phone Monday with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, followed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensk...