PHOENIX (AP) — President Donald Trump’s senior aides and allies lashed out at Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy from Washington as he attended a European summit Sunday in London to rally internatio...

To the Editor: I grew up with both of my parents being Democrats; so, I registered as one. I’ve never voted straight party, but rather who was the best candidate for the office. In my first presidenti...

On the day before the third anniversary of the brutal, lawless invasion of Ukraine, “Fox News Sunday” host Shannon Bream pressed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on whether it’s “fair to say” that Russi...

It’s a great time to not only renew your faith, but also support local churches, fire departments and businesses as the Lenten season will begin Ash Wednesday. During the Lenten season, fish fry fundr...

CHICAGO (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is backing off its demand for an extra layer of federal scrutiny whenever states seek even minor changes to their transportation plans, after the...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The sun hadn’t set on Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s gubernatorial campaign launch in Ohio earlier this week before President Donald Trump posted his endorsement of the Cincinnati-...

“Trump’s honeymoon is over,” headlines the Washington Post. “At Testy Town Halls, Republicans Take Heat for Trump’s Bold Moves,” reports the Wall Street Journal. Certainly, the president’s honeymoon i...

DOING SOMETHING AUDACIOUSLY bold is said to take gall. The saying comes from the word “gall,” referring to bile — in reality, secretions of the liver but generally any bitter, caustic, hard-to-swallow...

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...

I gotta admit, Joy Reid was indeed blindsided when she was fired from MSNBC this week. How could she possibly have seen this cancellation coming? Sure, by the end, she was down to 11 actual viewers na...

To the Editor: It can’t be that the left is that dumb, but they sure act like it. Sixty-percent of the electorate approve what the current administration is doing. Securing our borders, eliminating DE...

ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON, after 46 hours of dancing and months of fundraising, Penn State celebrated what is the university’s proudest moment each year. The total of money pulled in for Thon, an event bill...

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP has taken many productive steps during his first weeks back in the Oval Office. But supporting a bill to cap credit card interest rates — based on a campaign promise the preside...

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...

Three recent but completely unrelated events illustrate the deranged hatred of President Donald Trump and his supporters continuing now even into a second decade. And yet the venom only further margin...

The piano had clearly been through hell. This instrument once made beautiful music at the hands of Oded Lifshitz, an 83-year-old whose body spent 503 days in Hamas custody. And so it can never be a me...

NEW YORK (AP) — The popular right-wing podcaster Dan Bongino has built a career of unleashing sometimes inflammatory rants against the media, Democrats and the federal government. Now, the 50-year-old...

All over America that Friday in November 1963, college football teams boarded airliners for their Saturday games. They took off in one country, where John F. Kennedy was president and where optimism a...

DENVER (AP) — A new administration swept into Washington and announced plans to shake it up, using corporate know-how and new technology to streamline the federal bureaucracy. It offered millions of g...

AN EDITORIAL IS THE ONE place on the pages of a newspaper where the job is different. It is not about reporting the facts. It is about interpreting them. It is not about exposing the failings of gover...