THE RISING COST OF HEALTH INSURANCE — and how to pay for it — is a question many families are debating around kitchen tables, strained checkbooks close at hand. Westmoreland County leaders are confron...

NEW YORK (AP) — Venezuela’s oil industry has been in the spotlight since President Donald Trump used military force to capture the country’s leader, President Nicolas Maduro. In the days that followed...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he wants to block large institutional investors from buying houses, saying that a ban would make it easier for younger families to buy thei...

STEPHEN “RON” CHROMULAK’S dedication to supporting veterans and preserving the memories of our country’s fallen heroes never wavered throughout his life. In fact, the veteran really never stopped serv...

There have been two parts to the political world’s reaction to the American operation that deposed and captured Nicolas Maduro. The first part was to marvel at what Brit Hume called the “extraordinary...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants Republicans to reach a deal on health care insurance assistance by being willing to bend on a 50-year-old amendment that bars federal money from being spen...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — From the smoldering wreckage of two catastrophic world wars in the last century, nations came together to build an edifice of international rules and laws. The goal was t...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Monday an American takeover of Greenland would amount to the end of the NATO military alliance. Her comments came in response to...

REORGANIZATION MEETINGS took place Monday in numerous municipalities, and as the new year begins we are calling for calm and cooperation. Occasional dust-ups are expected in any municipality, but chao...

As the 1992 campaign approached, incumbent president George H.W. Bush was seen as a shoo-in for reelection. The First Gulf War ended in 1991 with a spectacular U.S. victory at the head of a coalition ...

“I am gonna die.” We all are. Just before Christmas, former Sen. Ben Sasse, announced that he has an advanced case of cancer and he’s going to die soon. At one point, people talked about Sasse as a po...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. The predawn U.S. military operation that spirited Nicolás Maduro and his wife out of Ven...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. By BRANDON ROTTINGHAUS Professor of Political Science, University of Houston Donald Trum...

PENN STATE’S BOARD OF TRUSTEES deserves credit for spending more time in public discussion this year than it has in the recent past. After years in which outcomes often were treated as foregone conclu...

Anew year, the same questions. The turning of the calendar page doesn’t necessarily mean that the country has turned a page. Many of the same mysteries, many of the same challenges, many of the same p...

By MEGAN JANETSKY and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — As uncertainty simmers in Venezuela, interim President Delcy Rodríguez has taken the place of her looming ally President Nicolás ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s military intervention in Venezuela will pose a fresh test of his ability to hold together a restive Republican coalition during a challenging election year t...

NEW YORK (AP) — A newly unsealed U.S. Justice Department indictmen t accuses captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro of running a “corrupt, illegitimate government” fueled by an extensive drug-tr...

Meetings in local government next week Here’s a look at the upcoming government meetings around the Mid-Mon Valley. If there’s an item or other event of public interest, we’ll include that below the l...

For many Mon Valley residents, Thursday’s weather was too cold to think about stepping outside, let alone consider going for a swim. But a few brave souls jumped into the Monongahela River for a good ...