A new year offers an opportunity for new beginnings. That’s true for almost all of us, but it is especially true for newly elected officials. We welcome all of those individuals to office and hope the...

To the Editor: If we dare to look in the rear view mirror of 2024, we are reminded of the election of Donald Trump to once again be given the title of president of the United States. A surprise victor...

It’s a common and correct impression that Donald Trump is a man without principles, but he actually does have one immutable guideline: Anything that helps him, personally or politically, is good. Anyt...

SOMETHING REMARKABLE happened Tuesday in Harrisburg. Lawmakers exercised both judgment and grace. It’s shocking. Even more surprising, the world didn’t end because there was no obvious partisan victor...

By BILL BARROW AND DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden is the consummate Washington insider. Jimmy Carter was anything but. Yet the 46th and 39th U.S. presidents had a deca...

President-elect Donald Trump will be inaugurated on Jan. 20. For now, his days in Mar-a-Lago are filled with getting ready to be president — meetings with aides, nominees, and world leaders. (The Ital...

To the Editor: Trump wants Greenland, the Panama Canal, and Canada to be a new state. A recent MVI letter writer says he was only joking but the left fell for it! Haha! The rest of the world already k...

NEWLY ELECTED MEMBERS OF THE state government were sworn into office Tuesday, including many from the Mon Valley. Two newly elected members of Congress from Pennsylvania took their oath of office Frid...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation’s capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returns to Washington for three days of state funeral rites starting on Tuesday. C...

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation after facing an increasing loss of support both within his party and in the country. Now Trudeau’s Liberal Party must fi...

PITTSBURGH IS A STEEL TOWN. Pennsylvania is forged from coal and coke and iron. Maps are peppered with the words “furnace” and “mills.” The history of metal production in the Keystone State began in t...

Less than a year before the end of World War II, then U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau drew up a nightmarish plan to punish postwar Germany. After the serial 18701871 Franco-Prussian Wa...

“We care about young women. We care about young children. And we want to make it possible to choose life.” Perhaps the mere fact that Sen. J.D. Vance — now the vice president-elect — felt the need to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters, a last-minute effort to block possible action by the incoming Trump administration...

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said his country was a “a solid ally” of President-elect Donald Trump on Monday as he outlined his vision for global diplomacy in 2025, while warning that...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Jenniffer González Colón was sworn in Thursday as Puerto Rico’s new governor as the island prepared for a normally ebullient ceremony overshadowed by widespread anger over...

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON AND MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The cars begin lining up early in the morning to be screened by Secret Service agents under white tents near the f...

To the Editor: At the beginning of December 2024, I heard that Christians and Jewish people would celebrate on Dec. 25 together. Christmas and Hanukkah are celebrated on the same day every 25 years, m...

ORGAN DONATIONS save lives. The story of medicine in Pittsburgh has included huge chapters on the growth of transplant surgery. Livers, hearts, kidneys and lungs — all of these are the critical organs...

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Before reaching the 1978 peace deal between Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter managed months of intense preparation, high-stakes negotiations at Camp Dav...