President Trump has been a whirling dervish of activity. Since his inauguration, it’s been a joy to read the news. Nothing but good news all the time. In a single day about a week after he was sworn i...

POLITICS IS UGLY. Elections can be the worst expression of that ugliness. In recent years, the voting process has become riddled with skepticism, distrust and hostility. But does it have to be? Is the...

To the Editor: In the past we had a few bad presidents. Now we not only have a bad president, we have a dangerous one. He is out of control because he has so much control and that makes him very dange...

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Britain’s Conservatives used to boast they were the world’s most successful political party. Not anymore. The center-right party that governed the U.K. for more than 60 of t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A partisan battle is playing out in a Washington courtroom that could decide the fate of President Donald Trump’s federal law enforcement intervention in the nation’s capital. Dozens...

One of the main themes of the second Trump administration has been the explosive collision between the president’s determination to enforce federal immigration law and many Democratic leaders’ determi...

To the Editor: Hey MAGA, do you need a chiropractor after turning yourself into pretzels defending Jeffrey Epstein’s good friend, Trumpy Dumpy? On the campaign trail, TACO said he would release the Ep...

Historians traditionally blame the failure of the League of Nations—the post-World War I, Versailles-era dream of President Woodrow Wilson—on many things. Its membership was small (58 nations). The Le...

If you are a priest in Nigeria, you stand a good chance of being kidnapped or martyred. “Our nation may collapse if the current situation lingers.” That was the assessment of the Catholic bishops of N...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican and Democratic lawmakers at an impasse on reopening the federal government provided few public signs Sunday of meaningful negotiations taking place to end what has so far ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has embraced the federal shutdown as an “unprecedented opportunity” to slash spending and shrink government, but new rounds of targeted spending cuts from the ...

Of the many changes in our politics — the movement of political power from the Northeast and Midwest to the South and West, the coarsening of our national conversation, the transformations wrought by ...

EVERY DAY IS A NEW FIGHT IN HARRISBURG. Lately, it’s been about the three-months-overdue budget. Discussions on the contentious spending plan are an all-too-familiar battleground. It’s a long-running ...

The West Mifflin community had a lot to celebrate this week with the ribbon cutting and open house for two new facilities that aim to help people of all walks of life. On Wednesday, an open house was ...

Independents are so hot right now — and will be for the foreseeable future. According to a major survey commissioned by CNN, nearly half of all Americans — 44% — call themselves independents while onl...

President Trump has openly boasted about wielding the full power of the federal government to punish his enemies, from universities and foundations to law firms and media companies. But when he person...

THE PENNSYLVANIA BUDGET impasse isn’t the gift that keeps on giving. It’s the thief that keeps on taking. The three-month-long delay in a state spending plan is a dammed-up financial river that has ri...

The Energy Department announced the termination of 223 projects nationwide. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is cancelling $7.6 billion in grants that supported hundreds of clean energy proj...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, by threatening mass firings of workers and sugg...

The federal government began to shut down at 12 a.m. Wednesday as lawmakers failed to resolve a dispute over spending, leading to the first lapse in funding in nearly seven years. The federal governme...