HOW DO PRESIDENTIAL candidates prepare for a debate? Former president and GOP nominee Donald Trump’s team claimed he didn’t do formal debate prep, but reports also say he sharpened his question-and-an...

Being of Irish Catholic descent, I’ve always been basically pro-immigrant. All eight of my great-grandparents were born in that country, and my family taught me to consider myself “Irish” before Ameri...

During his debate with Kamala Harris, a flustered and frustrated Donald Trump blurted out, “She is Biden.” Harris responded calmly: “Clearly, I am not Joe Biden. And I am certainly not Donald Trump.” ...

THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS kids shouldn’t be using in class. They shouldn’t have guns or knives or bullets. They shouldn’t have drugs or cigarettes or alcohol. They shouldn’t be bringing in anything th...

To the Editor: The thought of four more years of Donald Trump’s self-centered, total incompetence is absolutely terrifying. How can you ever forget the “Trump virus.” It would go away like as if by a ...

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Debate winner: CNN’s Candy Crowley. In 2012, she — the moderator — interjected herself into a Romney-Obama debate to fact-check Mitt Romney with a lie. But unlike ABC’s crack moderators on Tuesday nig...

In the weeks since a group of secretive Democratic powerbrokers pushed President Joe Biden out of the race, the party as a whole has embraced Vice President Kamala Harris with astonishing speed. Harri...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson vowed Tuesday to press ahead with requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration as part of a bill to avoid a partial government shutdown when the n...

WE THINK OF VIOLENCE — especially gun violence — as something that is lightning fast. A gunshot is almost a measure of something here one minute and gone the next. Superman famously is described as “f...

The public is exhausted after a decade of chronic untruth from the left-wing and its media. The 2016 presidential campaign will be long remembered for the false allegation that Donald Trump colluded w...

We live in an age of anxiety, full of anger and depression. The presidential candidates are clearly playing on both emotional states. There’s need for healing. But there is also an invitation for cour...

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG, JILL COLVIN and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MOSINEE, Wis. (AP) — With just days to go before his first and likely only debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, former 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...

The school year has begun. My teenager trots off to class in a school uniform, backpack stuffed full, water bottle filled. Early morning and afternoon traffic serve as reminders of the school calendar...

IF YOU CHECK YOUR CUPBOARD, more than likely you’ll have dinnerware and bakeware with the Pyrex, CorningWare and Corelle brand labels — three brands developed by Corning Glass Works during the 20th ce...

More than it’s anything else, an American presidential election is a TV series. And all the available evidence appears to show that the nation is ready to change the channel. To put it bluntly, The Tr...

By ERIC TUCKER, DAVID KLEPPER AND MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration announced wide-ranging actions Wednesday meant to call out Russian influence in the upcoming U...

The mainstream media has always engaged in mass lying about immigration, but they’re really going the extra mile this election cycle. Lie No. 1 is the toughness of the “bipartisan” border bill, covere...

SO DONALD TRUMP HAS HAD HIS FUN with those AI-generated images of crowds of Taylor Swift fans in “Swifties for Trump” T-shirts, which reportedly sparked a backlash among actual Swifties. And who didn’...