By LUIS ANDRES HENAO AND DAVID CRARY Associated Press MONTREAL (AP) — Throughout his new term, starting with his inaugural address, President Donald Trump has said he was “saved by God” to make Americ...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. By JAMES N. GREGORY Professor of History University of Washington It has happened before...

IN THE NATIONWIDE ATMOSPHERE of heightened scrutiny on the performance of law enforcement officers, a bill that would expand body camera use by special agents with the office of attorney general, rang...

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard just released a trove of apparently once-classified documents — with promises of much more to follow. The new material describes the role of the Obama a...

ANigerian priest was giving a weekday sermon at a suburban church in New Jersey, urging us to stop and make time for prayer and quiet contemplation. The priest knew what a countercultural thing he was...

Andrew Cuomo, candidate for mayor of New York City, meet John Carney, mayor of Wilmington, Delaware. Actually, the two already have met. Cuomo is the former governor of New York, and Carney is the for...

THE VETERANS AFFAIRS Pittsburgh Health System is dealing with deep losses to its workforce. In an exclusive interview with TribLive, Pittsburgh VA director Donald Koenig spoke about the reductions. Si...

Republicans want road money in exchange for more public transit funding, but resources are tight and a deal remains tricky. By STEPHEN CARUSO Spotlight PA HARRISBURG — Public transit is a key issue ho...

As his administration faces mounting pressure to release Justice Department files related the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case, President Donald Trump is highlighting a different criminal justice ...

There’s a lot of schadenfreude on the right, and even more lamentation on the left, about the cancellation of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.” Donald Trump leads the schadenfreude caucus. “I abso...

While nothing has been confirmed yet, there’s excitement over the possibility that the Corelle Brands plant in Charleroi could reopen. A source close to current Anchor Hocking employees told our news ...

EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — Lashed by cold winds and overlooking choppy, steel-gray North Sea waters, the breathtaking sand dunes of Scotland’s northeastern coast rank among Donald Trump’s favorite spo...

NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) — Inside an armored vehicle, an Army scout uses a joystick to direct a longrange optical scope toward a man perched atop the U.S.-Mexico border wall cutting across the hills of thi...

Tech companies looking to sell their artificial intelligence technology to the federal government must now contend with a new regulatory hurdle: prove their chatbots aren’t “woke.” President Donald Tr...

THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN. On Wednesday, Saint Vincent College in Unity became the center of the Pittsburgh Steelers universe as players arrived on the scene for their annual training camp. This is wh...

Humor has always been a central element of any successful political system. Dating back to ancient Rome, jesters and fools have often been the only truth-tellers who could say out loud, “The emperor h...

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and AMELIA THOMSONDEVEAUX Associated Press Three years after the Supreme Court opened the door to state abortion bans, most U.S. adults say abortion should be legal — views that loo...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s milestone settlement with Columbia promises to bring stability to a university in crisis. It also delivers a crucial win to President Donald Trump in his c...

THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL leadership did the right thing Monday in suspending a corrections officer. Brian Davis has worked at the jail for five years. He most recently worked in the facility’s intake...

To the Editor: What do you think about Trump’s cute little bawdy letter that he sent to his good buddy, Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday, the one that The Wall Street Journal revealed? House Spea...