Mourning in America
Opinion, Politics
January 27, 2026
Editor’s note: While columnist Victor Davis Hanson is on leave, we will be substituting his weekly column with syndicated American Voices columnist Robert B. Reich. Today we mourn the death-by-executi...
Politics
By By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press 
January 26, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — A growing number of Republicans are pressing for a deeper investigation into federal immigration tactics in Minnesota after a U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a man in Minneapol...
Opinion, Politics
January 26, 2026
“DID YOU SEE ON ‘THE PITT’…?” It’s becoming a regular refrain after the HBO Max medical series airs Thursdays. Each episode, set in a fictional Pittsburgh hospital, becomes a scavenger hunt of familia...
Politics
January 26, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eleanor Holmes Norton, the 18-term delegate for the District of Columbia in Congress and a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, has filed paperwork to end her campaign for reelectio...
Vance touts administration’s record at March for Life
Latest News, Politics
By By MEG KINNARD Associated Press 
January 24, 2026
Vice President JD Vance on Friday encouraged anti-abortion activists to “take heart in how far we’ve come” on the quest to limit the practice, listing the Trump administration’s accomplishments includ...
Politics
By By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press 
January 24, 2026
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump took center stage in his whirlwind visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, overshadowing the yearly gabfest among national leaders, ...
Trump’s globalist era is going to make everyone poorer
Politics
January 24, 2026
I’m not sure what to call the new era we seem to be entering. But I am sure it will make people poorer. Let’s start with some basics. Imagine you inherit a thriving department store chain. Rather than...
Around The Valley, Politics
January 24, 2026
Meetings in local government next week Here’s a look at the upcoming government meetings around the Mid-Mon Valley. If there’s an item or other event of public interest, we’ll include that below the l...
Politics
January 24, 2026
Pennlive.com Lehigh County’s top financial elected official is calling for the eviction of ICE from county-owned property. Mark Pinsley, the county controller, said the federal agency has been delinqu...
Vance in Minneapolis: Local officials must cooperate with immigration crackdown
Politics
January 23, 2026
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Insisting that he was in Minnesota to help “lower the temperature,” Vice President JD Vance on Thursday blamed “far-left people” and state and local law enforcement officials for th...
Why Trump is failing
Opinion, Politics
January 23, 2026
Donald Trump has called 2025 “the greatest first year” of any president, but a majority of Americans strongly disagree: In the latest CNN poll, 58% describe that year as a “failure.” To hardcore MAGA ...
Politics
A government can choose to investigate the killing of a protester — or choose to blame the victim and pin it all on ‘domestic terrorism’
Turning victims into suspects
January 23, 2026
The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. By STEPHANIE A. (SAM) MARTIN FRANK Bethine Church Endowed Chair of Public Affairs, Boise...
Trump backs down on Greenland, and cancels tariff threat
Politics, World News
January 22, 2026
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday scrapped the tariffs that he threatened to impose on eight European nations to press for U.S. control over Greenland, pulling a dramatic r...
Minnesota and the battle to cripple ICE
Opinion, Politics
January 22, 2026
You’ve seen videos of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers struggling to apprehend illegal immigrants in Minneapolis and elsewhere around the country. Many of those immigrants have criminal re...
Opinion, Politics
January 22, 2026
To the Editor: The pictures coming out of Minneapolis are awful. ICE’s indiscriminant violence makes everyone vulnerable. We know who is responsible. It ends with Trump. Why is this happening? It has ...