The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. ANDREA KENDALL-TAYLOR Yale University AND JOE WRIGHT Penn State With the recent confirma...

Here are some of the untruths told about Elon Musk and DOGE: “Musk has no right to cut USAID.” Elon Musk and his team are not cutting any federal programs. They are auditors. They were given legal aut...

Donald Trump has gotten the commentariat to speak Latin. That probably wasn’t on your predictions list for the second Trump administration. And yet, comments Vice President JD Vance made on the order ...

JOANN IS CLOSING. The crafting and fabric retailer announced it was shuttering about 500 stores nationwide. Of those, at least 30 are in Pennsylvania and there are many throughout the Southwestern Pen...

WASHINGTON (AP) — His group spent nearly $1 million on ads opposing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s health agencies. He’s delivering speeches urging the president to st...

Donald Trump has leaned into his unofficial role as the “ crypto president “ in ways that can both help the crypto industry and enrich himself and his family. Once a skeptic of cryptocurrencies, Trump...

By AAMER MADHANI, MATTHEW LEE AND STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press MUNICH (AP) — Vice President JD Vance urged European officials to stem illegal migration on the continent during his speech Friday bef...

A WESTMORELAND COUNTY SCHOOL board took action to censure one of its elected members. While the Norwin School District is not part of the Mon Valley, it’s a good example and a conversation for all sch...

President Trump’s current assault on the basic structure of democracy represents a far more serious threat than the occupation of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Four years ago, an angry mob, egged ...

TO WHOM SHOULD PENNSYLVANIA’S consumer advocate be answerable? The consumer advocate is a position created in 1976. The goal is to represent the people in state and federal proceedings involving utili...

Democrats, those stalwart champions of democracy who tried to keep Donald Trump off the ballot, have an endlessly malleable understanding of whose view prevails whenever disputes arise between any com...

To the Editor: I have a question you or one of your readers may answer for me. I have watched this battle between Ukraine and Russia. It would seem that this Russian leader was more in need of taking ...

More than two-dozen Christian and Jewish groups representing millions of Americans — ranging from the Episcopal Church and the Union for Reform Judaism to the Mennonites and Unitarian Universalists — ...

By THOMAS ADAMSON AND AAMER MADHANI Associated Press PARIS (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday warned global leaders and tech industry executives that “excessive regulation” could cripple t...

LONDON (AP) — The Saudis are furious. The Danes are scrambling. Colombia has backed down. Mexico and Canada stand in a purgatory between tariff wars with the US and … not. China has retaliated, launch...

One year, he used the traditional presidential Super Bowl interview to say that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was “very bad for our country.” The next year, he used the same forum to say that she was “a ...

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE between an investment and a purchase? Apparently, it could be enough to move President Donald Trump’s sentiments on the relationship between U.S. Steel and would-be buyer Nippon...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he is serious about wanting Canada to become the 51st state in an interview that aired Sunday during the Super Bowl preshow. “Yeah it is,” Trump told Fox ...

Thumbs down to flu season. February is bringing cold weather — and influenza. That means flu, as well as COVID, pneumonia and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Statewide, there were 21,469 cases of F...

Thank God for the stock market. The market is one of the only things Donald Trump can be expected to listen to — likely more than polls and certainly more than his advisers — even when he doesn’t want...