Weekend checklist: Reset your clocks and change your fire alarm batteries as Daylight Saving Time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday, marking the time when clocks “spring forward.” It will stay lighter for longe...

To the Editor: I’ve been reading letters here singing the praises of DOGE and “draining the swamp.” Let’s look at what’s really happening: • $40 million spent on an unnecessary trip to the Super Bowl....

THIS WEEKEND, MANY OF US will lose an hour of sleep as clocks will shift ahead by one hour. Daylight saving time will begin, delaying the moment day becomes night more than four months after it conclu...

Donald Trump starred in a reality TV show called “The Apprentice” for 14 seasons. In his signature moment, he turned to some quivering subordinate and bellowed, “You’re fired!” Today he’s headlining a...

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...

China will not yield to bullying and its economy can weather higher tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump and other challenges, the Chinese commerce minister said Thursday, though he added th...

WASHINGTON (AP) — To President Donald Trump, “tariff” is more than “the most beautiful word in the dictionary,” something he says often. Tariffs, in Trump’s view, are also a cure for a number of the n...

To the Editor: Hillary couldn’t handle the loss to Trump (2016), so she and the DNC decided to pay $3 million for a false dossier accusing collusion between Trump and Russia. For three years, all we h...

WE WERE RELIEVED when House Republicans successfully pushed President Donald Trump to reverse the Elon Musk-imposed 20% cut to the World Trade Center Health Program, which provides medical monitoring ...

I’m getting a little impatient waiting for Elon Musk to get to the two behemoths of government waste, fraud and abuse, so I’m dropping these in the suggestion box: Please hurry up and zero-out the CIA...

By REBECCA SANTANA AND TIM SULLIVAN WASHINGTON Associated Press (AP) — Democratic mayors of four major cities said Wednesday that Congress and the Trump administration are exaggerating crime committed...

NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Greenland’s prime minister has a message for President Donald Trump: “Greenland is ours.” Múte Bourup Egede made the statement on Facebook Wednesday, just hours after Trump decl...

UPMC MEMORIAL in York County is a hospital. A hospital is a place where life or death struggles take place every day. It is usually a cardiac arrest or a stroke or an anaphylactic allergic reaction. I...

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy is one of the Democrats urging his party to more aggressively resist President Donald Trump across a broad range of issues. “Mr. Murphy has seemed to be everywhere all at...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is encouraging Republican lawmakers to skip town halls that have been filled with protesters decrying the Trump administration’s slashing of federal govern...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic lawmakers demanded answers from billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency on Thursday as concerns about who has access to America’s most sensitive inform...

SPRING WILL SOON BE upon us and just like warmer weather and longer days, this time of year also brings with it high school musicals. We know how much spring musical season means to students, teachers...

By Victor Davis Hanson At some point, some president was going to have to stop the unsustainable spending and borrowing. To have any country left, some president would eventually have had to restore a...

Apapal deathwatch united us. It doesn’t seem as crass an observation now that Pope Francis has been rallying, but regardless of one’s politics or opinion of him specifically or the Catholic Church mor...

DETROIT (AP) — At the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, a quote from former President Ronald Reagan is engraved on one wall. “Let the 5,000-mile border between Canada and the United States stand as a symbol for...