Oh look, another American’s been beheaded by a Mexican. This week’s beheader is Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez, an illegal alien who, according to the Department of Homeland Security, decapitated 37-year-...

THE TOTAL POPULATION of senior citizens is 55.8 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Of that, 1.3 million are in nursing homes. That’s about 2.3%. Maybe that doesn’t seem like a lot, but the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law will add $3.4 trillion to federal deficits through 2034, the Congressional Budget Office reported Monday, a slight increase in the proje...

To the Editor: The pied piper of D.C. — aka Donald J. Trump. An appropriate title for a perfect example of an individual who is responsible for a deteriorating government — a decline in the America th...

Over the weekend, CBS News published a new poll with the headline, “Poll finds support for Trump’s deportation program falls.” The story seemed straightforward. But the story behind the story is worth...

In less than six months, the entire world has been turned upside down. There is no longer such a thing as conventional wisdom or the status quo. The unthinkable has become the banal. Take illegal immi...

God bless Martina Navratilova. She said an honest, courageous thing about surrogacy. The Czechoslovakia-born tennis legend was responding to an article on egg donation. The author of the piece had pos...

CLEVELAND (AP) — President Donald Trump is threatening to hold up a new stadium deal for Washington’s NFL team if it does not restore its old name of the Redskins, which was considered offensive to Na...

Can it be a coincidence, or merely a case of synchronicity, that in the age of Trump — a decade-long epoch that began in 2015 — several serious, high-profile books have been written about presidential...

THE PENNSYLVANIA ENERGY and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University was ostensibly, as the name implied, about energy and innovation. In reality, it was about money and jobs. The event provide...

By THOMAS BEAUMONT AND JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are encountering early headaches in Senate races viewed as pivotal to maintaining the party’s majority in next year’s ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans were grasping late Thursday to formulate a response to the Trump administration’s handling of records in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case, ultimately puttin...

“Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?” President Trump shot back at a reporter during a Cabinet meeting. “This guy’s been talked about for years. ... I mean, I can’t believe you’re asking a qu...

As many families struggle with the high costs of just about everything these days, it was great to see the Highmark Wholecare Farm-to-Family produce market making a stop in Monessen on Wednesday. The ...

He calls a story in Friday’s paper “false, malicious and defamatory.” WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoc...

By BRIAN SLODYSKO AND WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — If one theme has emerged in President Donald Trump’s second term, it’s this: He’s leveraged the power of his office for personal ...

AS JOURNALISTS, WE OFTEN WRITE ABOUT and emphasize the importance of the Sunshine Act, and we work diligently to hold our elected officials accountable when they fall short of preserving public access...

After devastating floods rampaged through Texas, The New York Times ran a story headlined, “Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response.” “In an effort to shrink the federal govern...

FINALLY — SOME GOOD ECONOMIC news to celebrate in the Mon Valley — especially in the Charleroi/Speers communities. On Tuesday, GE Vernova announced a $100 million investment in its Speers factory to e...

“The cover-up is worse than the crime” is almost never true — of course the crime is worse — and when the crime is rape of underage girls, I’d say it’s nearly impossible for the cover-up to be worse. ...