Take time to remember the reason for Memorial Day
Politics
May 24, 2024
MEMORIAL DAY has evolved to a time when people place flowers on the graves of loved ones, but the original intent was to honor military service personnel who have lost their lives in service to Americ...
Politics
By By JILL COLVIN Associated Press 
May 24, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump isn’t known for letting slights pass. Yet for weeks, the famously combative presumptive Republican nominee has sat silently — to the point of sometimes seeming asleep — in...
The mini-Trumps in their giant suits put on quite a show
Politics
May 23, 2024
The temptation is to raillery. But how to satirize a political movement that appears to see self-parody as the highest form of expression? Costumed as if auditioning for a remake of the Talking Heads ...
Why debates matter
Politics
May 23, 2024
Joe Biden and Donald Trump have agreed to debate twice — on CNN in June, then on ABC in September. Both think they can win, or at least gain an advantage over the other. But both can’t be right. Polit...
Politics
May 23, 2024
IS THE NFL DRAFT coming to Pittsburgh in 2026 really that big a deal? From a financial perspective, it definitely could be. It seems unlikely Pittsburgh will see a Super Bowl on the North Shore anytim...
Trump holds a rally in the South Bronx as he tries to woo his hometown
Politics
May 23, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump campaigned Thursday in one of the most Democratic counties in the nation, holding a rally in the South Bronx as he tries to woo minority voters days befor...
Moms for Liberty to spend over $3 million targeting presidential swing state voters
Politics
By By ALI SWENSON Associated Press 
May 22, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — The conservative parental rights group Moms for Liberty plans to spend more than $3 million on a multi-state advertising blitz to increase its membership and engage voters before Novem...
Politics
May 22, 2024
THE DRAMA IN THE Westmoreland County Register of Wills office continues. It started with judges ordering Register of Wills Sherry Magretti Hamilton to comply with certain timelines. She didn’t. There ...
Pick the hillbilly, Trump
Politics
May 22, 2024
Now that it looks like Trump is seriously going to be the Republican nominee for president, who should his vice president be? If he’s headed for a catastrophic, 1964-style defeat, then he should defin...
Politics
By By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer 
May 21, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — As president, Donald Trump imposed a 25% tariff on foreign steel, which hurt Clips & Clamps Industries, a Michigan auto supplier — raising its materials prices, making it harder to c...
Politics
May 21, 2024
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI AND LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In the hours after the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Ohio’s then-Republican senator, Rob Portman, voted to accept...
Brad Smith: What I would have told the Trump jury
Politics
May 21, 2024
In recent days, it has become clear that the Trump trial, in which Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg seeks to imprison former President Donald Trump for a maximum of 136 years over allegedly fal...
Politics
May 21, 2024
IN THE MON VALLEY and all across America, teams of dedicated professionals stand ready to render medical assistance in emergencies. For some this is their career. For many others, it is a volunteer un...
Politics
By By JONATHAN COOPER Associated Press 
May 21, 2024
President Joe Biden and his Republican rival, Donald Trump, piled up more delegates Tuesday as both presumptive nominees won primaries in Kentucky and Oregon. The symbolic decisions provide a few more...
Politics
May 20, 2024
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Former South African President Jacob Zuma was disqualified Monday from running for a seat in Parliament in a national election next week because of a previous criminal c...
We need leaders and followers
Politics
May 20, 2024
“We don’t just need leaders, we need followers.” A friend who’s worked in Washington politics for decades was thinking aloud about a commencement speech she was scheduled to give at her law school alm...
Politics
May 20, 2024
To the Editor: In the past, judges were always expected to set aside personal views and rely on the interpretation of the law and remain fair and balanced even if they did not agree with the law. Curr...