As we approach the landmark 100 days of the second Trump ascendancy, the nature of his rule has become clear. It is, to be sure, chaotic, like his first term. But this Trump presidency differs in fund...

Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia a good person? I don’t know. In 2021 his wife petitioned for, and received, an order of protection against him after she alleged domestic violence; she said last week that thei...

Local businesses got an extra boost thanks to participation in the Mon Valley I2E Cohort, which was a free workshop series designed to help aspiring and existing entrepreneurs develop their business p...

To the Editor: Prior to and at the start of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) and up to the present time, our country has experienced upheavals that shook the very foundation of our constitut...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Donald Trump first came up with his plan for a “National Garden of American Heroes” at t...

PASSAIC, N.J. (AP) — Alleged gang members without criminal records wrongly sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador. International students detained by masked federal agents for writing opinion colum...

On Easter morning, the day before he died, Pope Francis met Vice President JD Vance, a devout defender of President Trump’s virulent anti-immigration policies. Francis and Vance exchanged brief pleasa...

PENNSYLVANIA HAS 67 COUNTIES, 500 school districts and 2,560 municipalities. With each step down that ladder, there are more and more opportunities for people to step up and participate in their gover...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview released Wednesday that Iran must give up all nuclear enrichment if it wants to make a deal during talks with the Trump administra...

TORONTO (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war and annexation threats have upended Canada’s election and improved the fortunes of the Liberal Party, which could win a fourth consecutive term i...

To the Editor: The Democrats keep betting on the wrong horse. When you see Bernie Sanders and AOC at the top of the Democrat party we conservatives are ecstatic. Those two represent the radical left o...

Amid the boredom of a non-Christian pope’s death and the media’s obsession with the Signal messaging app, I found myself reading about Pearl Harbor this week. It seems that as hell rained down, Marine...

PENN STATE IS MAKING DECISIONS about which of 12 Commonwealth Campuses the university might close. The decision has been dangled since February. President Neeli Bendapudi announced then that she had a...

After all the talking and arguing about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal border-crosser and alleged gang member deported by the United States and now imprisoned in El Salvador, there is still a funda...

To the Editor: It has been 10 weeks since this administration has been in place. We are now in the “find out” phase of broken promises and failed policies. Egg prices still obscenely high, even though...

“The flames rose. So did our people.” Instead of sleeping in on Saturday morning, Darcy Olsen and her four children woke to their attic on fire. Her people came to help. Darcy founded the Center for t...

WHILE THE DEATH OF A POPE is always a time of mourning for Catholics, the passing of Pope Francis, 88, is being felt more deeply by many outside the church and from around the globe. Francis, the firs...

Harvard University has rejected various demands of a presidential commission on antisemitism. The task force wants to persuade Harvard to ensure Jewish students on its campus are no longer harassed, o...

Pennsylvania and federal open records laws don’t require elected officials to release their work calendars to the public. STATE COLLEGE — Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, multiple protests...

This is an era when the great certainties that ruled American life for nearly three generations are being questioned more deeply, more widely and more seriously than at any time in decades. When the C...