By STEVE PEOPLES, ERIC TUCKER AND AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Key U.S. agencies, including the FBI, State Department and the Pentagon, have instructed their employees not to comply...

Congratulations and a big thumbs up for all of the volunteers and sponsors who helped make the inaugural Prom-fident event a success last night. The event, held at the First Presbyterian Church in Eli...

MANY VALLEY RESIDENTS can remember when traditional shopping malls were community anchors, vibrant hubs of retail, restaurants, service providers, and more. Once the third largest mall in the nation, ...

It seemed like one of President Trump’s more innocuous proclamations, buried under a blizzard of devastating policy changes and mass firings: The Gulf of Mexico, he announced, would now be called the ...

To the Editor: So, we are all deplorables because we voted for Trump, who wants a secure border with less drugs, smaller government, a balanced budget, to be respected, and have peace in the world thr...

Desperate to protect government employees who are paid upward of $100,000 a year to surf porn all day (or do something even more disgusting, like funnel money to USAID), Democrats are beside themselve...

DURING THE PANDEMIC, we directed a lot of criticism at Tom Wolf. As governor, he was taking a lot of steps to deal with the coronavirus and its impact on Pennsylvanians. Much of the criticism was dire...

To the Editor: Funny! Obama and Clinton deported a total of 17 million illegal immigrants and Biden let them all back in! Clinton terminated 377,000 federal jobs but now the Dems are protesting that T...

Catholic bishops sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its abrupt halt to funding of refugee resettlement, calling the action unlawful and harmful to newly arrived refugees and to the nation’s...

This week, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, raised the prospect of impeaching President Donald Trump over the Justice Department’s decision to withdraw...

THERE’S NO QUESTION this winter has been hard on our roadways in the Mon Valley. Extreme temperature fluctuations, along with precipitation in the form of snow, ice and heavy rain, have left streets a...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. ANDREA KENDALL-TAYLOR Yale University AND JOE WRIGHT Penn State With the recent confirma...

Here are some of the untruths told about Elon Musk and DOGE: “Musk has no right to cut USAID.” Elon Musk and his team are not cutting any federal programs. They are auditors. They were given legal aut...

Donald Trump has gotten the commentariat to speak Latin. That probably wasn’t on your predictions list for the second Trump administration. And yet, comments Vice President JD Vance made on the order ...

JOANN IS CLOSING. The crafting and fabric retailer announced it was shuttering about 500 stores nationwide. Of those, at least 30 are in Pennsylvania and there are many throughout the Southwestern Pen...

WASHINGTON (AP) — His group spent nearly $1 million on ads opposing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s health agencies. He’s delivering speeches urging the president to st...

Donald Trump has leaned into his unofficial role as the “ crypto president “ in ways that can both help the crypto industry and enrich himself and his family. Once a skeptic of cryptocurrencies, Trump...

By AAMER MADHANI, MATTHEW LEE AND STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press MUNICH (AP) — Vice President JD Vance urged European officials to stem illegal migration on the continent during his speech Friday bef...

A WESTMORELAND COUNTY SCHOOL board took action to censure one of its elected members. While the Norwin School District is not part of the Mon Valley, it’s a good example and a conversation for all sch...

President Trump’s current assault on the basic structure of democracy represents a far more serious threat than the occupation of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Four years ago, an angry mob, egged ...