To the Editor: The reaction by Michael Moore and the naysay crowd is so misdirected. If people want to be mad about our health care system they need look no farther than our very own federal governmen...

MARIJUANA IS LEGAL in Pennsylvania. Kind of. Except not really. The twisting vines of what is and isn’t OK in the Keystone State have been growing like weeds since 2016. That was when the state legali...

AT ANY EMERGENCY, there is a concern beyond bandages and oxygen. The victims of a car crash, fire or other event are observed and kept calm. An emergency medical technician may wrap in a blanket someo...

By COLLEEN LONG AND JILL COLVIN Associated Press PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — In a freewheeling press conference at his Mar-a-Lago club, President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he would consider pardoning...

Former President Barack Obama had long been rumored as the catalyst for the 2020 Joe Biden nomination — and thereafter played the whispering puppeteer behind the subsequent lost Biden administration y...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump announced Saturday that he’s picked longtime foreign policy adviser Richard Grenell to serve as an envoy for special missions, tasking him wit...

MONTREAL — Irwin Cotler arrived at a restaurant in this city’s Mile End neighborhood in a mini motorcade of six vehicles, all of them holding Canadian security agents. The protective force that has be...

By NOAH TRISTER, TARA COPP and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump huddled with allies and a Republican cause célèbre at Saturday’s Army-Navy football game...

MICHAEL CONAHAN should be familiar with what goes into difficult decisions about crime and punishment and their effect on a person’s life. Conahan was a Temple-trained lawyer who spent 13 years as a L...

In a shocking development last week, Amnesty International effectively exonerated Israel of genocide. This was easy to miss, and not just because of the recent crush of news. Amnesty’s report, titled ...

By LINLEY SANDERS and MEG KINNARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans may have recently elected Donald Trump to a second term, but that doesn’t mean they have high confidence in his ability t...

THE U.S. HOUSE of Representatives’ bipartisan Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump has released recommendations in a 180-page report. The task force, chaired by U.S. Rep. Mike ...

Donald Trump has vowed to impose 25% tariffs on imported goods from Mexico and Canada unless, he says, those neighbors stem the flow of illegal migrants and drugs into the United States. Chinese impor...

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams met with President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming “border czar” on Thursday, with the Democratic...

ON JAN. 7, Susan Shepherd called the police. Her son Christopher Shepherd, 48, was in the grip of a psychiatric crisis. He had a kitchen knife. He barricaded himself in his Upper St. Clair home. It wa...

By FARNOUSH AMIRI AND ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Under fire from congressional Republicans about one of the darkest moments of Joe Biden’s presidency, Secretary of State Anton...

Inasmuch as the most popular reaction to the cold-blooded murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been to hail the shooter as a hero, I gather that Americans really hate health insurance co...

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, ILLIA NOVIKOV AND AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The grinding war between Ukraine and its Russian invaders has escalated ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration, wi...

By MATTHEW LEE, AAMER MADHANI AND ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Tuesday it will recognize and support a new Syrian government that renounces terrorism, d...

To the Editor: What do you do when it’s four o’clock and you can’t sleep? You are about to find out what I do. The word minestrone (or minestroni) means “soup” in Italian, but I think it means “Clean ...