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NEW YORK (AP) — Maybe President Donald Trump really does believe that “tariff” is the most beautiful word in the dictionary. Despite higher prices, criticism from trade experts and displeasure among v...

By GARY FIELDS AND JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press President Donald Trump has pushed Congress to pass a proof-of-citizenship law, signed an executive order seeking a national voter ID requirement an...

NEW YORK (AP) — Nelson Vandermeer voted Republican for decades but balked at supporting President Donald Trump, fearing that the Republican’s plan for tariffs on imports would hurt workers more than h...

Meetings in local government next week Every week, the Mon Valley Independent editorial staff will share upcoming government meetings around the Mid-Mon Valley. If there’s an item or other event of pu...

To the Editor: I know it has only been a short time that I wrote, but in reading about our so-called president deciding which newspaper and newscasters should have entry into our own White House, it h...

“When leaders neglect lived experience, the message collapses,” wrote former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in The New York Times. That is precisely the mistake Biden made, lauding the...

By TOM FONTAINE TribLive Republican Stacy Garrity attacked Democratic incumbent Gov. Josh Shapiro’s record during a televised debate Wednesday to try to shift momentum in a race that has seen her lagg...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says his administration will make onetime payments of $90 per person to help more than 20 million Medicare enrollees pay for their Part B premiums. It will cos...

When strategists on both sides look at the 2026 Senate map, the state at the top of the list of those most likely to switch parties is North Carolina, where Republican Sen. Thom Tillis is retiring and...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. U.S. Sen. Ed Markey is 80 and has served in Congress for half a century. His Democratic ...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. By ROBERT BOATRIGHT Professor of Political Science, Clark University; Institute for Huma...

Guess who the deputy whip of the United States Congress is? Our very own Guy Reschenthaler! What a whip does is make sure that all the voters are lined up in Congress for whatever issue is on the dock...

WATERFORD, NEW Ohio — See how they run. Former Sen. Sherrod Brown is running like an old man in a hurry. “An old man in a hurry” is the phrase Lord Randolph Churchill employed to characterize then-76y...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. By DANIEL J. MALLINSON Associate Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Penn Sta...

In 1992, Bill Clinton won the presidential election partly on the basis of his campaign’s false accusation that George H. W. Bush had overseen “the worst economic performance since the Great Depressio...

IT IS HARDER TO GET PEOPLE TO VOTE than it should be. It’s hard to get them to register in the first place, even when “motor voter” registration while getting a driver’s license makes it as easy as ti...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Aaron Siever was never a single-party voter. But now, the 41-year-old from southwest Virginia is more frustrated than ever with the two political parties whose chief accomplishment, ...

VANDALIA, Ohio (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday defended data centers that power artificial intelligence projects but have become a contentious campaign issue nationwide, as he took his midte...

By MELISSA GOLDIN and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press President Donald Trump on Saturday pressured Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas to support a bill to make daylight saving time permanent, posti...