TO WHOM SHOULD PENNSYLVANIA’S consumer advocate be answerable? The consumer advocate is a position created in 1976. The goal is to represent the people in state and federal proceedings involving utili...

Democrats, those stalwart champions of democracy who tried to keep Donald Trump off the ballot, have an endlessly malleable understanding of whose view prevails whenever disputes arise between any com...

To the Editor: I have a question you or one of your readers may answer for me. I have watched this battle between Ukraine and Russia. It would seem that this Russian leader was more in need of taking ...

More than two-dozen Christian and Jewish groups representing millions of Americans — ranging from the Episcopal Church and the Union for Reform Judaism to the Mennonites and Unitarian Universalists — ...

By THOMAS ADAMSON AND AAMER MADHANI Associated Press PARIS (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday warned global leaders and tech industry executives that “excessive regulation” could cripple t...

LONDON (AP) — The Saudis are furious. The Danes are scrambling. Colombia has backed down. Mexico and Canada stand in a purgatory between tariff wars with the US and … not. China has retaliated, launch...

One year, he used the traditional presidential Super Bowl interview to say that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was “very bad for our country.” The next year, he used the same forum to say that she was “a ...

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE between an investment and a purchase? Apparently, it could be enough to move President Donald Trump’s sentiments on the relationship between U.S. Steel and would-be buyer Nippon...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he is serious about wanting Canada to become the 51st state in an interview that aired Sunday during the Super Bowl preshow. “Yeah it is,” Trump told Fox ...

Thumbs down to flu season. February is bringing cold weather — and influenza. That means flu, as well as COVID, pneumonia and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Statewide, there were 21,469 cases of F...

Thank God for the stock market. The market is one of the only things Donald Trump can be expected to listen to — likely more than polls and certainly more than his advisers — even when he doesn’t want...

To the Editor: January’s potent one-two punch of bone-chilling temperatures and wintry weather reminds us how important it is that Pennsylvanians have access to dependable utility service to economica...

By GENE JOHNSON AND MIKE CATALINI Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A second federal judge in two days has blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship for the children of paren...

In 2017, when now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio was a senator from Florida, he posted this on social media about the United States Agency for International Development: “Foreign Aid is not charity. W...

WHAT’S NEXT FOR MONROEVILLE MALL? The 186-acre retail destination was sold by CBL Properties last week. The price tag? About $34 million. That’s nothing compared with the $231 million CBL paid when it...

By AAMER MADHANI AND ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump promised voters an administration that wouldn’t waste precious American lives and taxpayer treasure on far-of...

Last week, Donald Trump unaccountably blamed DEI for the catastrophic plane crash in Washington, D.C. — a claim that was “baseless” and “without evidence,” as noted a very reasonable 1 million times b...

GOV. JOSH SHAPIRO laid out a plan for cooperation in his budget address Tuesday. Heading into his third budget negotiation, he outlined priorities that might be consensus builders between his Democrat...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — President Donald Trump’s proposal that the United States “take over” the Gaza Strip and permanently resettle its Palestinian residents was swiftly rejected and denou...

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER AND MEG KINNARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of senior officials put on leave. Thousands of contractors laid off. A freeze put on billions of dollars in humanitarian a...