IT’S A TOUGH TIME TO BE A COLLEGE. Spring can be an uncertain time for a Pennsylvania institution of higher learning in the best of times. With state lawmakers still haggling over the budget, universi...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker sits at a table surrounded by University of Illinois researchers who will soon be out of work, their lab set to lose its federal funding and close next...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s father swept into Lawrence, Kansas, 57 years ago this month to give a campaign speech. It was just his third day as a 1968 presidential candidate, and he clearly ...

By JONATHAN J. COOPER AND NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Bernie Sanders stepped onto a stage in downtown Denver, surrounded by tens of thousands of cheering supporters in what he des...

Ihave to wonder: When will Vice President JD Vance condemn his own administration? Last month, Vance, a self-described foreign policy “realist” who scorns the practice of describing countries as “good...

To the Editor: Since it appears President Musk and his puppet Donald Trump have such short attention spans and can only understand bullet points, as they asked all the Federal workers to list the five...

Thumbs up for Valley residents showing up. Several Mon Valley residents expressed their frustrations and strongly opposed a permit request by the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill during a Department of ...

THE U.S. HAS A LONG HISTORY of political violence, but there is a growing sense that the scope and frequency of political harassment, threats and violence are reaching new levels. That’s what’s happen...

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...

Tom Homan, the White House “border czar,” told Fox News that the Trump administration would defy any federal judge who tries to block the deportation of suspected Venezuelan gang members. “We’re not s...

University employees engaged in sexual misconduct. Administrators misappropriating public funds. Scientists paid by industry groups to obtain desirable research outcomes. Open records laws have helped...

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW political power is ebbing and flowing in Pennsylvania, take a look at counties comprising Mon Valley communities. Pennsylvania’s politics swing like the clapper of a bell. It c...

Of all of President Trump’s zany ideas— making boring, self-righteous Canada the 51st state, we take Gaza, Perkins Coie lawyers banned from federal buildings— his claim that Joe Biden’s pardons are in...

By JOYCE DAVIS Opinion Editor PennLive/The Patriot-News Now, more than ever, you need to know. You not only need to know about the chaos in Washington, but you need to know what’s happening in your ow...

THERE ARE FEW THINGS IN LIFE that are more important than water. We need it to drink. We need it to clean. We might need it to control a heating system or a power plant or to run a factory. None of th...

To the Editor: Last week there was a meeting at Monessen High School concerning the contaminants in our drinking water. Where were our city officials, state officials and school board members? They sh...

PARIS (AP) — Hey, America: Give the Statue of Liberty back to France. So says a French politician who is making headlines in his country for suggesting that the U.S. is no longer worthy of the monumen...

Over the last three decades, elite American universities have engaged in economic, political, social, and cultural practices that were often unethical, illegal — and suicidal. They did so with impunit...

To the Editor: I certainly wish there was some way to apologize to Mr. Zelenskyy. It was truly a shame what he had to go through in the meeting with the dictator, now posing as our president and one o...

“Good morning. I’m Kathryn, what’s your name?” It was a natural enough question — at that awkward part of a meeting where we knew the vaguest things about one another. I knew he had a family member be...