At a town hall meeting in the Pentagon last February, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, “I think the single dumbest phrase in military history is ‘our diversity is our strength.’” Talk about dumb. ...

PEOPLE IN MCKEESPORT ARE ANGRY. And they should be. News that the partnership is ending between the McKeesport Area School District and the Dick’s Sporting Goods Foundation is a devastating blow not o...

RIVERS THAT FLOW through southwestern Pennsylvania are important economic drivers, recreational assets and sources of natural beauty. But they also can be deadly, which means safety must be at the for...

LONDON, England — Once, they loved us. Not everybody, of course. But many millions of people beyond our borders were grateful for our generosity, admired our creativity, envied our freedoms, shared ou...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk is leaving his government role as a top adviser to President Donald Trump after spearheading efforts to reduce and overhaul the federal bureaucracy. His departure, announce...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law, swiftly throwing into doubt Trump’s signature set...

Here is a basic question about Original Sin, the new book detailing the White House’s attempt to hide former President Joe Biden‘s in-plain-sight mental and physical decline: Why is it having such an ...

PENN STATE TRUSTEES took a vote Thursday that will close seven Commonwealth Campuses. At the end of Spring 2027, the New Kensington and Fayette campuses, along with five others, will stop being landgr...

To the Editor: Future generations of Pittsburghers will remember this week as a defining moment for the “Steel City.” President Donald Trump announced that U.S. Steel will maintain its headquarters in...

ON FRIDAY, PRESIDENT Donald Trump pivoted. He dropped his previous opposition to the acquisition of U.S. Steel, a marquee name in the history of American manufacturing, by Nippon Steel, a larger force...

The editorial department of the Mon Valley Independent encourages letters to the editor. Letters must be no more than 500 words, must be in good taste and must include the author’s name, town of resid...

One reason why the public turned on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) was its insistence that roughly 70% of the country was stereotyped as victimizers by virtue of their skin color. In contrast,...

“Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith.” That’s not my interpretation; it’s a quote from a judge’s order. “This fact is so unimagi...

Hundreds of thousands of photos were taken of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. And yet, there are only four known photos of him in a wheelchair. This was deliberate. FDR hid his disability from polio, even ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A government report released on Thursday covering wide swaths of American health and wellness reflects some of the most contentious views on vaccines, the nation’s food supply, pesti...

IF YOU DON’T VOTE, YOU CAN’T COMPLAIN. We’ve all heard this saying before, but never has it rung so true than for Tuesday’s primary election. Despite beginning the process to elect local leaders who w...

Sen. Josh Hawley is a deeply conservative and decidedly ambitious Republican from Missouri who hopes to run for president. In an extraordinary essay for The New York Times, he broke sharply from Donal...

NIPPON STEEL IS PUTTING MORE MONEY on the table. But will it matter? The nearly $15 billion elephant in the room is the Japanese company’s offer to acquire Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel. It’s a deal tha...

By LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING, LEAH ASKARINAM AND JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defying opposition within his ranks, House Speaker Mike Johnson insisted late Wednesday that Repu...

Possible article in The New York Times: For more than a century, most scientists and researchers have agreed that smoking has nothing to do with lung cancer. But now, the fringe theory that smoking is...