Politics
January 10, 2025
SOMETHING REMARKABLE happened Tuesday in Harrisburg. Lawmakers exercised both judgment and grace. It’s shocking. Even more surprising, the world didn’t end because there was no obvious partisan victor...
Trump sentencing: The end to a ridiculous case
Politics
January 8, 2025
President-elect Donald Trump will be inaugurated on Jan. 20. For now, his days in Mar-a-Lago are filled with getting ready to be president — meetings with aides, nominees, and world leaders. (The Ital...
Politics
January 8, 2025
To the Editor: Trump wants Greenland, the Panama Canal, and Canada to be a new state. A recent MVI letter writer says he was only joking but the left fell for it! Haha! The rest of the world already k...
Politics
January 8, 2025
NEWLY ELECTED MEMBERS OF THE state government were sworn into office Tuesday, including many from the Mon Valley. Two newly elected members of Congress from Pennsylvania took their oath of office Frid...
Who will replace Justin Trudeau?
Politics
By By ROB GILLIES Associated Press 
January 8, 2025
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation after facing an increasing loss of support both within his party and in the country. Now Trudeau’s Liberal Party must fi...
Politics
January 7, 2025
PITTSBURGH IS A STEEL TOWN. Pennsylvania is forged from coal and coke and iron. Maps are peppered with the words “furnace” and “mills.” The history of metal production in the Keystone State began in t...
Germany’s new Morgenthau plan
Politics
January 7, 2025
Less than a year before the end of World War II, then U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau drew up a nightmarish plan to punish postwar Germany. After the serial 18701871 Franco-Prussian Wa...
The legacy of Jimmy Carter
Politics
January 7, 2025
“We care about young women. We care about young children. And we want to make it possible to choose life.” Perhaps the mere fact that Sen. J.D. Vance — now the vice president-elect — felt the need to ...
Politics
By By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press 
January 3, 2025
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Jenniffer González Colón was sworn in Thursday as Puerto Rico’s new governor as the island prepared for a normally ebullient ceremony overshadowed by widespread anger over...
Politics
Yes, Virginia, politics is a game
January 2, 2025
To the Editor: At the beginning of December 2024, I heard that Christians and Jewish people would celebrate on Dec. 25 together. Christmas and Hanukkah are celebrated on the same day every 25 years, m...
Politics
January 2, 2025
ORGAN DONATIONS save lives. The story of medicine in Pittsburgh has included huge chapters on the growth of transplant surgery. Livers, hearts, kidneys and lungs — all of these are the critical organs...
Politics
December 30, 2024
IT TOOK MORE THAN THREE YEARS, but it finally happened: The State Department has deemed Marc Fogel wrongfully detained. In August 2021, the teacher from Oakmont was returning to Russia to teach at the...
Politics
December 30, 2024
By HALELUYA HADERO and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to pause the potential TikTok ban from going into effect until his administrati...
This is the trouble with Elon Musk’s debut as a federal budget negotiator
Politics
December 28, 2024
In the wake of a successful effort to kill a year-end spending bill and replace is with more limited legislation to keep the government open, Elon Musk declared victory last week on X (formerly Twitte...