There has been a certain escalatory logic in the resistance to Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency. In the very beginning, when few took him seriously, they laughed at him. Then they tried to defeat...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has announced the concept he wants for his future Golden Dome missile defense program — a multilayered, $175 billion system that for the first time will put U....

IS THERE NOTHING THAT CAN HAPPEN in Harrisburg without division? On Tuesday, we wrote about two bills wending their way through the Legislature. In the Senate, Republicans passed a bill banning transg...

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Pundits are confused about what to make of the first 100 days of the second Trump administration. Supporters talk of “flooding the zone,” believing President Donald Trump is making so many changes so ...

Once Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the news anchors and reporters and podcasters — and anyone else with an excuse or a budget to go to Rome — have gone home, there will stil...

TODAY IS THE PRIMARY ELECTION, and while it might not attract the widespread attention and participation of a presidential race, what happens today holds the potential to most personally affect area r...

An aggressive administration fires federal employees, changes geographical names and appoints a vaccine skeptic to high office. Opponents of the president challenge many of his initiatives in court. T...

IF YOU HAVE BEEN IN A RITE AID in recent months, the news of store closings was probably not a surprise. Many shelves are barely stocked. Outside of the pharmacy, the stores often have a ghost-town ap...

KOZLOWSKA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said he plans to speak by phone Monday with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, followed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensk...

The sad country we live in To the Editor: It has certainly been some week. The passing of the people’s Pope. What a good man, looking after the less fortunate, much like the Jesus he so deeply believe...

Pretty much on a daily basis now, I find myself muttering or shouting, “If only Congress wasn’t broken,” or something to that effect. I’m happy to acknowledge that our problems have many causes. Still...

PENN STATE LEADERS are proposing the shuttering of seven Commonwealth Campuses. The idea has been on the table since February. It would be brought up in May, it was suggested. But the May meeting of t...

To the Editor: The Associated Press has reported a lot of seniors are concerned about Social Security not being there for them. The usual Democrat suspects constantly parrot the Republicans are going ...

Rumeysa Ozturk is a 30-year-old graduate student at Tufts University and a native of Turkey who wears a traditional Muslim headscarf. Six weeks ago, she was arrested by masked federal agents on a stre...

THE GREAT FRUSTRATION of a divided legislature is how it works so hard to stay in exactly the same place. Having a governor of a different party than the lawmakers is a challenge, but it still allows ...

Liberals are furious that President Trump is admitting refugees who are actually being persecuted because of their race, as opposed to our usual policy, which is to admit poverty-stricken illiterates ...

To the Editor: To those of you who still support Donald Trump, don’t you get tired of losing? Don’t you get tired of being lied to by this administration? Let’s look at some of the failures after the ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom wants California to stop enrolling more low-income immigrants without legal status in a state-funded health care program starting in 2026 and begin charging...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s not just the “gesture” of a $400 million luxury plane that President Donald Trump says he’s smart to accept from Qatar. Or that he effectively auctioned off the first destinatio...