Meetings in local government this week Here is a look at upcoming government meetings around the Mid-Mon Valley this week. If there’s an item or other event of public interest, we’ll include that belo...

In January, the New York Times asked President Donald Trump if there were any limits on his global powers. “Yeah,” the president responded, “there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the ...

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER AND BILL BARROW Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy said Friday he will back Todd Blanche’s nomination as attorney general, likely paving the way fo...

To the Editor: Trump wants to scare us with the dangers of communism. It reminds me of the remark once made by his fellow tax dodger and billionaire, Leona Helmsley: “I wouldn’t believe Trump if his t...

The Reflecting Pool opened on the National Mall in 1922, linking the monuments that honor Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. The pool serves as “an optical instrument,” writes one commentator, a m...

odds are Republicans The will lose control of the House in the coming midterms — for five reasons: 1. their current majority is so narrow that losing a literal handful of seats would cost them control...

CRAWFORD NOTCH, N.H. — Two hundred years ago this month, a ferocious storm moved through these mountains, prompting a massive landslide that killed seven members of the Willey family and two hired wor...

caused unaffordability? Who Fear about “affordability” supposedly fueled the new, strident socialism. Yet annual inflation during former President Joe Biden’s four years averaged almost 5 percent. It ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Key senators unveiled a short-term spending bill on Sunday that would keep federal agencies funded past the midterm elections and into early December as they look to avoid a governme...

By AAMER MADHANI AND MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday sharply criticized U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s assessment that damage to the Lincoln Memorial ...

Meetings in local government this week Here is a look at upcoming government meetings around the Mid-Mon Valley this week. If there’s an item or other event of public interest, we’ll include that belo...

I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but it’s almost like the GOP is secretly promoting the Democratic Socialists of America, which is now producing a lot of the energy and excitement within the Democratic ...

To the Editor: The less people think — the more they talk. We should think before we speak about anything and everything. There are thoughts that are best not expressed, orally or written. Donald Trum...

President Trump is kicking out about 350,000 Haitian immigrants who have lived here for many years, raising their children, paying their taxes and contributing to their communities. His actions are bo...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer dozens of questions from senators in a Republican-led committee hearing about his handlin...

There will be funerals this week in Washington, D.C., and in South Carolina for Sen. Lindsey Graham, who died suddenly from a heart condition on July 11. The fact that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

U.S. SEN. JOHN FETTERMAN is siding with Democrats — at least this week. There are some issues nailed into the Republican platform, like tax cuts and deregulation. There are some knitted into the fabri...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democrat Paige Cognetti is taking a shot at artificial intelligence data centers in her challenge to freshman Republican Rep.Rob Bresnahan, saying “we’re not for sale” in a new ...

FRYEBURG, Maine — Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Except this one has a bad temper. Troy Jackson, the new Senate candidate from Maine, was born three years before The Who’s Pete Townshend wro...

The last Democratic candidate to appeal to the white working-class voter was Bill Clinton. He needed every one of those voters in his 1992 and 1996 races. Yet he still failed to win 50 percent of the ...