Shapiro, Garrity set stage for Pa.’s high-stakes race for governor
Latest News, Main, Politics
By By TOM FONTAINE TribLive 
January 19, 2026
Gov. Josh Shapiro currently holds a sizable money advantage again. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro didn’t mention his likely Republican opponent by name once last week when he launched his reelection c...
Broadband expansion on hold as feds miss self-imposed deadline
Business, Latest News, Main, ...
January 19, 2026
The delay comes after the Trump administration changed the rules for the program, forcing states to adjust on the fly. Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing inv...
Politics
January 19, 2026
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The mayor of Minneapolis said Sunday that sending active duty soldiers into Minnesota to help with an immigration crackdown is a ridiculous and unconstitutional idea as he urged pro...
Extra, Politics
By By CARAANNAAND JOSH BOAK Associated Press 
January 19, 2026
At least six more countries said Sunday the United States has invited them to join U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace,” a new body of world leaders meant to oversee next steps in Gaza that’...
Trump isn’t interested in being honorable — he’d rather be feared
Opinion, Politics
January 17, 2026
Adecade ago, a famous and successful investor told me that “integrity lowers the cost of capital.” We were talking about Donald Trump at the time, and this Wall Street wizard was explaining why then-c...
Politics
January 17, 2026
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has spent his second term bulldozing elected and appointed officials who resist him or refuse to b...
Around The Valley, Politics
January 17, 2026
Meetings in local government this week Here is a look at upcoming government meetings around the Mid-Mon Valley this week. If there’s an item or other event of public interest, we’ll include that belo...
Politics
January 17, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump issued a flurry of pardons in recent days, including for the father of a large donor to his super PAC, a former governor of Puerto Rico and a woman whose sente...
Fetterman opposes calls to abolish ICE
Politics
By By TOM FONTAINE TribLive 
January 16, 2026
He called it an “extreme” position in a post on X. U.S. Sen. John Fetterman is rejecting calls from some fellow Democrats to abolish the federal government’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement follow...
Politics
January 16, 2026
A PYRAMID CAN BE the strongest shape humans know how to build. Load-bearing. Enduring. It also can be a scheme — something that looks solid from the top down but collapses when the base proves hollow....
Politics
By By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer 
January 16, 2026
If the byproduct of a raid on a Washington Post journalist’s home is to deter probing reporting of government action, the Trump administration could hardly have chosen a more compelling target. Hannah...
Reality is making a comeback
Politics
January 16, 2026
In Trump World, where alternative facts rule, reality is starting to make comeback. For months, the president has hammered Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, denouncing him as a “numbsku...
Trump threatens to use Insurrection Act to end protests in Minneapolis
Politics, World Briefly
January 16, 2026
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke an 1807 law and deploy troops to quell persistent protests against the federal officers sent to Minneapolis to enforce his ad...
Politics
January 15, 2026
CALLS FOR MIKE TOMLIN to step down are not new. They tend to surface the same way every time — after an ugly loss, after a season that ends not with hope but with disappointment. Monday night’s 30-6 w...
The prime of tough-guy progressivism
Politics
January 15, 2026
On Saturday, Larry Krasner, the elected Democratic district attorney of Philadelphia, posted a photo of himself on social media. It was a black-and-white picture of a stern-looking Krasner in a dark s...
Politics
By By EMMA BURROWS AP European Security Correspondent 
January 15, 2026
NUUK, Greenland (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that NATO should help the U.S. acquire Greenland and anything less than having the island in U.S. hands is unacceptable, hours before Vice ...