WASHINGTON (AP) — With every passing day of the government shutdown, hundreds of thousands of federal employees furloughed or working without pay face mounting financial strain. And now they are confr...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to gut a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped root out racial discrimination in voting for more than a half century, a chan...

If Alvin Bragg, the Democratic district attorney of Manhattan, had his way, Donald Trump would have spent Monday in a New York state correctional facility. Instead, Trump — President Donald Trump — sp...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is making this government shutdown unlike any the country has ever seen, enabling his budget office a rare authority to pick winners and losers — who gets paid...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. By MICHAEL J. SOCOLOW Professor of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine The...

News organizations including The New York Times, The Associated Press and the conservative Newsmax television network said Monday they will not sign a Defense Department document about its new press r...

THERE ARE THINGS WE CAN stretch when money is tight. That pair of shoes might have to last another month or two. Replacing the tires could wait until you get your tax return. This electric bill could ...

Van Jones, the CNN host and commentator, recently complained that neither the global left nor the mainstream media are covering the horrific violence against Nigerian civilians by Islamic terrorists. ...

Popes traditionally give a catechetical teaching on Wednesdays at the Vatican, right outside St. Peter’s Basilica and into the square when the weather is right. Most recently, they have been all about...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that is designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the just...

By FAYABULGASIM AND SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The U.S. and Egyptian presidents are chairing a gathering of world leaders dubbed “Summit for Peace” on Monday to suppo...

WALMART IS THE LARGEST RETAILER in the United States. You might think most of what is bought and sold in America is filtering through Jeff Bezos and his Amazon website, but you would be wrong. Accordi...

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...