Barney Frank, the irascible but indispensable liberal lawmaker from Massachusetts who died this spring, was never known as a man of few words. Yet the opening of his book, issued posthumously just the...

TWICE DURING PRESIDENT TRUMP’S first term, his administration tried to prevent a journalist whose work it did not like from reporting at the White House. Twice, judges rejected the moves as unconstitu...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. By WAYNE UNGER Associate Professor of Law, Quinnipiac University The president is going ...

By ERIC TUCKER AND ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Before taking over the sprawling Justice Department investigation into foes of President Donald Trump, Joe diGenova decried t...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney now believes he is more than just the Western foil to President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement—he is the global one. Accordingly, he seems determined to demonst...

Good news from McKeesport! The feckless administrations of former state Sen. Jimmy Brewster and former Mayor Mike Cherepko have been replaced by new Mayor Tom Maglicco. It is a great improvement. Magl...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands is preparing for the United States to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court in the latest escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks ...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. By ANDREW LATHAM Professor of Political Science, Macalester College “Better dead than re...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump first ran for office, he called out China as a menace to the U.S. economy, saying it had gutted America’s factories and eroded the middle class. That toug...

NEW YORK (AP) — Reporters from three major news organizations — CNN, MS NOW and Politico — were denied access to the White House on Saturday, a day after President Donald Trump said he was barring the...

DETROIT (AP) — Mike Rogers stood outside Cody High School on Detroit’s west side on a recent drizzly morning and decried Michigan’s decline in reading achievement. “This is the civil rights issue of o...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Even after the last votes were counted from Alaska’s primary election, the final slate of candidates was far from settled. Late withdrawals shook up the races for governor, U.S. ...

Meetings in local government next week Every week, the Mon Valley Independent editorial staff will share upcoming government meetings around the Mid-Mon Valley. If there’s an item or other event of pu...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. By MORGAN BAZILIAN AND JAMIE WEBSTER Colorado School of Mines Diesel fuel prices in the ...

One of the challenges with writing about the war in — and on — Ukraine is that so little changes. I don’t mean the fighting on the ground, though even there, when viewed from a distance, it doesn’t lo...

“Please pretend that I am running,” Trump told Republicans at their recent convention in Dallas. Well, no one has to pretend. Democrats agree completely. They also want voters to view the November ele...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has approved visas for top Iranian officials, including the president and foreign minister, to attend next week’s U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting in...

Last week, the Commerce Department released inflation figures for August, and what they showed was ... more of the same. The year-over-year inflation rate last month was 3.4%, a rate unchanged from Ju...

To the Editor: While so many of us dummies were sleeping, the greatest hero in the world was saving us. You know that wonderful, handsome, loving leader of our country, who sent our army out and arres...

Associated Press On the way home from a recent trip, Eriech Tapia drove past a sea of dark industrial buildings lining an already jam-packed northern Virginia road: data centers. “It was interesting t...