To the Editor: I would like to draw attention to the 12 young people who participated in the 2025 Auxiliary Volunteen Program at Penn Highlands Mon Valley. These youths who hailed from the Charleroi, ...

THE EXPLOSION AT U.S. STEEL’S Clairton Coke Works is one of those massive incidents that require a careful, methodical review. The collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge occurred Jan. 28, 2022. The final ...

There’s something interesting going on in the continuing controversy over President Donald Trump’s anti-crime initiative in Washington, D.C. When Trump first announced the move, saying crime in the di...

“Destroying democracy” — the latest theme of the left — can be defined in many different ways. How about attempting to destroy constitutional, ancient, and hallowed institutions simply to suit short-t...

It’s back-to-school time in many parts of the country. Will students be painting coffins in the playgrounds? Will they have field trips to funeral homes for pajama parties? What dark planet have I com...

Isaw the future exactly 30 summers ago while on assignment in Iowa. I just didn’t know it. But that future — the mobilization of angry voters, the aggressive rhetoric, the twin senses of resentment an...

COLLEGE STUDENTS CAN TAKE THE DORM experience seriously. You can’t walk into Walmart or Target without hitting a wall of ready-for-campus furnishings and accessories. For many, the must-haves range fr...

By JILL COLVIN AND EMMA BURROWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump walked into a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin pressing for a ceasefire deal and threatening “severe conseque...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Friday reversed course and agreed to leave the Washington, D.C., police chief in control of the department, while Attorney General Pam Bondi, in a new mem...

The 65th anniversary celebration of McKeesport’s International Village wrapped up Thursday night after three days of ethnic foods, music and dancing. This annual tradition is another great example of ...

On May 1, 2003, George W. Bush announced, “Major combat operations in Iraq have ended.” He was standing below a giant banner that read, “Mission Accomplished.” At the risk of inviting charges of under...

A COMPANY HAS TO MAKE a profit to stay in business. Everything has a cost, and those costs go up. To stay ahead of that curve, and to make sure the owner or investors are also getting a pay day, a com...

xtreme partisanship Estarted infecting American politics long before Donald Trump emerged, but the president’s unhinged desire for unlimited power is now driving the two-party system to the brink of a...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The greenlight given by President Donald Trump on U.S. backup for a European-led force to police any future peace agreement in Ukraine vastly improves the likelihood it might succeed. ...

The House Rules Committee voted against a Senate proposal that would have provided $1.2 billion over two years for transit agencies and road and bridge projects. By TOM FONTAINE TribLive A pair of com...

To the Editor: A word in defense of my MAGA friends. All my life I’ve been hearing about “waste, fraud and abuse,” watching that slogan spread everywhere. Partly it spread because the media loves to s...

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP is mulling a move on marijuana. The president said Monday his administration was considering rescheduling the substance, moving it from Schedule I to a Schedule III. Scheduled d...

Today’s story is about Shaurn Thomas, Innocence Project poster boy. The New York Times did not cover Thomas’ 1994 conviction for second-degree murder at the time — but celebrated his “exoneration” in ...

By MARK THIESSEN AND GENE JOHNSON Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — When U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Alaska on Friday, it will be the latest chapte...

To the Editor: I always wanted to know what is wrong with our youth between the ages of 16-35 — Friday night I found out. I worked the “Pop up” concert sponsored by Sheetz at its Route 60 location in ...