Around The Valley, Latest News, Politics
March 7, 2026
Meetings in local government this week Here is a look at upcoming government meetings around the Mid-Mon Valley this week. If there’s an item or other event of public interest, we’ll include that belo...
Trump needs to get ready for the blowback
Opinion, Politics
March 7, 2026
It is a special kind of folly to make longterm predictions amid the fog of war. Nobody knows how Operation Epic Fury will end. But there are already a few things we can celebrate and condemn. On the c...
Politics, World News
March 6, 2026
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he should be involved in choosing Iran’s next supreme leader as the U.S. and Israel hammered the country for a sixth day. I...
Politics, World Briefly
More than 20 states sue over new global tariffs
March 6, 2026
WORLD BRIEFLY WASHINGTON (AP) The House narrowly rejected a war powers resolution Thursday to halt President Donald Trump’s attacks on Iran, an early sign of unease in Congress over the rapidly wideni...
This is Trump’s war
Opinion, Politics
March 6, 2026
As President Trump continues to bombard Iran, triggering violent reprisals across the Middle East, is he also blasting Republican chances for controlling Congress after this fall’s midterm elections? ...
Opinion, Politics
By By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press 
March 6, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans invoked the war in Iran and the prospect of retaliatory terrorist attacks as they made another unsuccessful effort Thursday to pass a bill funding the Department of Homel...
Rogers announces candidacy for Pa. House District 58 seat
Elections, News, Politics, ...
CANDIDATE ANNOUNCEMENTS
March 6, 2026
For the MVI Cherri Rogers, of Scottdale, a union nurse and lifelong resident of Pennsylvania House District 58, has announced her candidacy for state representative. “Committed to lowering costs, defe...
MacTaggart to seek House District 48 post
Elections, Politics, Washington County Elections
CANDIDATE ANNOUNCEMENT
March 6, 2026
For the MVI Rebecca MacTaggart, a civil rights advocate and 20-year South Strabane Township resident, has announced her candidacy for Pennsylvania House District 48 during the May 19 primary election....
Sabot seeking Washington Co. Democratic delegate seat
Elections, Politics, Washington County Elections
March 6, 2026
For the MVI Bob Sabot has announced his candidacy to be a delegate for Washington County on the Pennsylvania State Democratic Committee in the May primary, a four-year voluntary position. Sabot, who i...
Trump, forever wars and Iraq syndrome
Opinion, Politics
March 5, 2026
For many years in the 1970s, 1980s and into the 1990s, discussions of the use of U.S. military force suffered from an effect known as Vietnam Syndrome. Many Americans simply could not consider any pro...
Politics
March 5, 2026
By DAVID BAUDER, MEG KINNARD AND ALI SWENSON Associated Press Writers NEW YORK (AP) — For President Donald Trump, some of the sharpest criticism he’s faced in the early days of the Iran war has come f...
Opinion, Politics
To the point
March 4, 2026
To the Editor: A filter is defined as a material that allows certain substances to pass while keeping other substances out. In referring to a filter as a mechanism used by an individual as one conveys...
Netanyahu takes a gamble on American support for Israel with the war against Iran
Politics
By By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press 
March 4, 2026
Throughout his political career, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has steered his country along two pillars of foreign policy: an ironclad partnership with the United States and a relentless ...
Some celebrate in Iran, but deep fear and uncertainty remain
Opinion, Politics
March 2, 2026
By AMIR-HUSSEIN RADJY, SARAH EL DEEB, KAREEM CHEHAYEB and LEE KEATH Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Some of the jubilation was open and even raucous — people dancing in Iranian streets, honking car horn...
Opinion, Politics
By By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press 
February 28, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton testified Friday before members of Congress investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, answering for his connections to the disgraced financi...
The world may be done bending to Trump’s will
Opinion, Politics
February 28, 2026
Imight as well say it clearly: I’m for regime change in Iran. The Islamic fanatics who have been running Iran since 1979 are murderers, torturers and exporters of terrorism. They are despised, or at l...