By PAUL WISEMAN AND LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is waging a trade war without getting approval from Congress: He declared a national emergency to slap ...

Sen. Jim Banks (RIN) has long been an advocate for Vice President JD Vance. Before the 2024 GOP convention, Banks urged President Donald Trump to pick Vance as his running mate. Now Banks says, “After...

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, ZEKE MILLER AND BERNARD CONDON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For President Donald Trump, accepting a free Air Force One replacement from Qatar is a no-brainer. “I would never b...

20 AWEEK FROM TODAY, Pennsylvanians will vote in the 2025 primary election. While primary elections don’t attract as much attention as who will battle it out for their spot in the Oval Office, many of...

Somewhere between 10 and 12 million illegal aliens were invited into the United States by the Biden administration. As far as logistics go, former President Joe Biden could not flee Afghanistan withou...

My favorite early fact about Pope Bob from Chicago comes from his talkative brother, John. Local reporters found John right away as the world met Pope Leo XIV. Fake news I may have repeated initially ...

U.S. SEN. JOHN FETTERMAN, D-Braddock, does not seem pleased with scrutiny over his behavior. It hasn’t been about his language processing in the wake of his 2022 stroke. It hasn’t been about the depre...

President Donald Trump has identified real problems, but he’s abusing his power in trying to correct them. Perhaps the most frustrating thing about being a conservative critic of Trumpism is that you ...

Tomorrow, we acknowledge birth mothers, stepmothers, foster mothers, surrogate mothers, single mothers, working moms, military moms and many other varieties. Thank you for all you do and here’s to a d...

To the Editor: Studying the “Official Municipal Primary Democratic Mail-In Ballot, Monessen 4th Ward, 3rd Precinct,” I concluded that the Monessen voting public must not care much who runs for mayor o...

As Donald Trump vows to deport millions of undocumented migrants, NBC’s Kristen Welker asked the president several times if he felt bound by the due process clause of the Constitution. And several tim...

THERE MIGHT BE NO SINGLE ISSUE in the United States that affects more areas than mental health problems. They can be caused by physical health issues, such as chronic pain or a dire diagnosis. But the...

SHOULD A VOTER BE REQUIRED to prove identity to cast a ballot? It’s a question that has been argued in Pennsylvania for years — just like it has in other states. A recent Spotlight PA and Votebeat art...

The thing I admire most about liberals is their balls-to-thewall bravery. This past weekend, for example, CBS’s Scott Pelley called Trump a “felon,” making him, quite simply, the finest investigative ...

To the Editor: Conservatives want to stop the clock. Reactionaries want to turn it back. Trump and Co. are reactionaries. So it came to pass during the reign of King Donald I, a high stone wall was bu...

We’ve gotten a new tidbit of information about efforts by the Biden White House and some in the press to cover up President Joe Biden’s age-related infirmity. It comes from a new book, 2024: How Trump...

To the Editor: For nearly four decades I have lived a short walk from the Kelly Run landfill. As a legislator from 1985-2010, I served on the Environmental Resources Committee where I helped write law...

PETS ARE NOT JUST ANIMALS that live in our homes. For many people, their cats and dogs, birds and ferrets and other critters are a part of the family. There are 59.8 million American homes with at lea...

Despite the media hysteria, President Donald Trump’s counterrevolution remains on course. Its ultimate fate will probably rest with the state of the economy by the November 2026 midterm elections. But...

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