The sad country we live in To the Editor: It has certainly been some week. The passing of the people’s Pope. What a good man, looking after the less fortunate, much like the Jesus he so deeply believe...

Pretty much on a daily basis now, I find myself muttering or shouting, “If only Congress wasn’t broken,” or something to that effect. I’m happy to acknowledge that our problems have many causes. Still...

PENN STATE LEADERS are proposing the shuttering of seven Commonwealth Campuses. The idea has been on the table since February. It would be brought up in May, it was suggested. But the May meeting of t...

To the Editor: The Associated Press has reported a lot of seniors are concerned about Social Security not being there for them. The usual Democrat suspects constantly parrot the Republicans are going ...

Rumeysa Ozturk is a 30-year-old graduate student at Tufts University and a native of Turkey who wears a traditional Muslim headscarf. Six weeks ago, she was arrested by masked federal agents on a stre...

THE GREAT FRUSTRATION of a divided legislature is how it works so hard to stay in exactly the same place. Having a governor of a different party than the lawmakers is a challenge, but it still allows ...

Liberals are furious that President Trump is admitting refugees who are actually being persecuted because of their race, as opposed to our usual policy, which is to admit poverty-stricken illiterates ...

To the Editor: To those of you who still support Donald Trump, don’t you get tired of losing? Don’t you get tired of being lied to by this administration? Let’s look at some of the failures after the ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom wants California to stop enrolling more low-income immigrants without legal status in a state-funded health care program starting in 2026 and begin charging...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s not just the “gesture” of a $400 million luxury plane that President Donald Trump says he’s smart to accept from Qatar. Or that he effectively auctioned off the first destinatio...

NATIONAL POLICE WEEK is an annual event dedicated to honoring the service and sacrifice of law enforcement officers across the United States. This week-long observance, from May 11–17, in Washington, ...

By PAUL WISEMAN AND LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is waging a trade war without getting approval from Congress: He declared a national emergency to slap ...

Sen. Jim Banks (RIN) has long been an advocate for Vice President JD Vance. Before the 2024 GOP convention, Banks urged President Donald Trump to pick Vance as his running mate. Now Banks says, “After...

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, ZEKE MILLER AND BERNARD CONDON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For President Donald Trump, accepting a free Air Force One replacement from Qatar is a no-brainer. “I would never b...

20 AWEEK FROM TODAY, Pennsylvanians will vote in the 2025 primary election. While primary elections don’t attract as much attention as who will battle it out for their spot in the Oval Office, many of...

Somewhere between 10 and 12 million illegal aliens were invited into the United States by the Biden administration. As far as logistics go, former President Joe Biden could not flee Afghanistan withou...

My favorite early fact about Pope Bob from Chicago comes from his talkative brother, John. Local reporters found John right away as the world met Pope Leo XIV. Fake news I may have repeated initially ...

U.S. SEN. JOHN FETTERMAN, D-Braddock, does not seem pleased with scrutiny over his behavior. It hasn’t been about his language processing in the wake of his 2022 stroke. It hasn’t been about the depre...

President Donald Trump has identified real problems, but he’s abusing his power in trying to correct them. Perhaps the most frustrating thing about being a conservative critic of Trumpism is that you ...

Tomorrow, we acknowledge birth mothers, stepmothers, foster mothers, surrogate mothers, single mothers, working moms, military moms and many other varieties. Thank you for all you do and here’s to a d...