A COMPANY HAS TO MAKE a profit to stay in business. Everything has a cost, and those costs go up. To stay ahead of that curve, and to make sure the owner or investors are also getting a pay day, a com...

xtreme partisanship Estarted infecting American politics long before Donald Trump emerged, but the president’s unhinged desire for unlimited power is now driving the two-party system to the brink of a...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The greenlight given by President Donald Trump on U.S. backup for a European-led force to police any future peace agreement in Ukraine vastly improves the likelihood it might succeed. ...

The House Rules Committee voted against a Senate proposal that would have provided $1.2 billion over two years for transit agencies and road and bridge projects. By TOM FONTAINE TribLive A pair of com...

To the Editor: A word in defense of my MAGA friends. All my life I’ve been hearing about “waste, fraud and abuse,” watching that slogan spread everywhere. Partly it spread because the media loves to s...

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP is mulling a move on marijuana. The president said Monday his administration was considering rescheduling the substance, moving it from Schedule I to a Schedule III. Scheduled d...

Today’s story is about Shaurn Thomas, Innocence Project poster boy. The New York Times did not cover Thomas’ 1994 conviction for second-degree murder at the time — but celebrated his “exoneration” in ...

By MARK THIESSEN AND GENE JOHNSON Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — When U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Alaska on Friday, it will be the latest chapte...

To the Editor: I always wanted to know what is wrong with our youth between the ages of 16-35 — Friday night I found out. I worked the “Pop up” concert sponsored by Sheetz at its Route 60 location in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The new picture of law enforcement in the nation’s capital began taking shape Tuesday as some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by the Trump administration began arriving. T...

PARTISANSHIP IS WHAT HAPPENS in the quiet spaces between calamity. When trains are derailing or cars are crashing, there is no question of affiliation. When a building is burning, no one asks how the ...

President Donald Trump‘s public safety initiative for the District of Columbia faces two great obstacles. The first is the persistence of crime there. The second is residents, local officials, and nat...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he’s taking over Washington’s police department and activating 800 members of the National Guard in the hopes of reducing crime, even as city offic...

“O ur joy comes from knowing that we can live on tomorrow’s joy today.” “Hope is not dead; hope is alive and it embraces our lives forever. Hope does not disappoint!” “The one who has hope lives diffe...

President Donald Trump’s executive orders banning Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI)-related racial and gender preferencing have ostensibly doomed the DEI industry. But DEI was already on its last leg...

By JOSHUA GOODMAN AND JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — When Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno visits Colombia this week as part of a three-nation tour of Latin America, it will be something ...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Staff at the State Department’s Office of Countering Violent Extremism and Bureau of Con...

By COLIN DEPPEN Spotlight PA Pennsylvania legislators have hobbies too, and sometimes surprising hidden talents. Months before launching his bid for a Schuylkill County state House seat, Tim Twardzik ...

At a time when questions about the rule of law are in the air, it is important to remember that Donald Trump hasn’t overturned Isaac Newton’s third law of motion, which rules Washington, D.C. just as ...

THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS we can depend upon in Pennsylvania. As certain as the sun will rise, there will be potholes, there will be football rivalries and the state Legislature will lock horns over so...