WE TALK A LOT ABOUT TRANSPARENCY. The free flow of information is important. We want government to be accountable to the people for their actions, their spending and their process. When government doe...

The Ford Edsel. New Coke. The Sony Betamax. Theranos. Google Glass. Yugoslavia. The 1964 Philadelphia Phillies. The “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” musical. The War Powers Act. Of the many great ideas that t...

By ALI SWENSON and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina said Sunday he will not seek reelection next year, an abrupt announcement that came on...

Congratulations to the Mon Valley Initiative for completing a project more than 20 years in the making. On Thursday, more than a dozen residents stopped by an open house held by the Mon Valley Initiat...

After a short and successful war with Iraq, President George H.W. Bush claimed in 1991 that “the ghosts of Vietnam have been laid to rest beneath the sands of the Arabian desert.” Bush was referring t...

WE’RE NEARING THE END OF JUNE and community events are in full swing. Too often we hear people complain “there is nothing to do here,” but we beg to differ. Every week we publish listings of events — ...

Can Donald Trump be trusted? Can we rely on his judgment in a crisis? Those core questions have been raised by the president’s decision to reverse his campaign pledges and attack Iran’s nuclear infras...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. The Conversation is wholly responsible for the content. For decades, Americans’ trust in...

THE JOB OF A STATE’S GOVERNOR is to steer the executive ship. The governor takes the laws and budgets passed by the legislators and the departments of the government and finds a way to apply them. Tha...

On his first day in office — of his second term, not his wasted first term — President Trump signed an executive order ending anchor babies, the practice of treating kids born to illegals on U.S. soil...

Mamdani would be the city’s first Muslim and Indian American mayor. NEWYORK (AP) — Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo conceded New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani as the 33-year old mem...

WHEN SEVERAL MON VALLEY school boards voted to raise property taxes this year, the majority of district leaders attributed them due to rising costs associated with cyber/charter school expenses. This ...

To the Editor: Being able to finally retire at the age of 73 should be a time of great celebration, but again I’ve been trumped. Again. Will I have my Social Security and Medicare, due to his Big Beau...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. For the past several months, the Trump administration has been trying to deport immigran...

California Senator Alex Padilla recently crashed a press conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. He deliberately wore no identification. He gave no advance warning that he would disrupt...

“It’s amazing to see people living the Christian faith -- and especially when they don’t have to.” That’s what Chaldean Paul Thabet Habib Yousif Al Mekko of Alqosh in Iraq told me during an interview ...

FAMILIES DON’T ALWAYS look the same. Sometimes they are small and nuclear. Sometimes they are blended from remarriage. Sometimes they are extended with grandparents or grandchildren. And for many peop...

THE NIPPON STEEL-U.S. STEEL DEAL IS DONE. Finally. Really. What was proposed as a sale in December 2023 and talked about frequently as a “deal,” “merger,” “partnership” or “proposal” over the ensuing ...

For days, Donald Trump — impetuous, intuitive, instinctive, but not known for introspection — grappled with the path forward in Iran, and with his historical legacy. Would he unleash the GBU-57 bunker...

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s bombardment of three sites in Iran quickly sparked debate in Congress over his authority to launch t...