Halting Biden stirs Democratic anxiety about candidacy
Politics
June 27, 2024
There are new calls for the president to step aside after his debate performance. ATLANTA (AP) — A raspy and sometimes halting President Joe Biden repeatedly sought to confront Donald Trump in their f...
Politics
June 27, 2024
REMEMBER YOUR FIRST DAY at a new school being full of anxiety and wondering if you’d make friends? Or, remember leaving the comfort of home to head out on your own for the first time, or moving into a...
The flood of disinformation
Politics
June 27, 2024
In Moldova, a false video implied that a pro-Western president actually favored Russia. In Bangladesh, a conservative Muslim country, a female lawmaker was portrayed wearing a bikini. In Slovakia, a d...
Louisiana edict unlikely to survive scrutiny
Politics
June 27, 2024
It’s precisely because of the First Amendment prohibition of an official state religion, of course, that Americans are so much more inclined to spiritualism than other technologically advanced countri...
How Trump will lose the debate
Politics
June 26, 2024
Donald Trump’s recent proposal to give a green card to every immigrant who gets a degree from any college reminded me of his performance at the 2020 debates with Joe Biden. Here’s the 15-second versio...
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Trump, the convicted
June 26, 2024
To the Editor: The Democrats must be very proud of the president that has to have 16 coaches to prepare for the debate with his opponent Donald Trump. He is taking a week off from the people’s busines...
What RFK Jr. really means to the Pa. ballot
Politics
June 25, 2024
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. has filed paperwork to appear on the Pennsylvania ballot as a presidential candidate. The fourth Kennedy to run for president and the first to do so as an independent, he maintai...
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By By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press 
June 25, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan judge on Tuesday modified Donald Trump’s gag order, freeing the former president to comment publicly about witnesses and jurors in the hush money criminal trial that led to...
Boebert wins GOP primary after switching districts
Politics
ELECTION ROUNDUP
June 25, 2024
The loyal Trump ally easily defeated four other candidates. DENVER (AP) — U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert won Tuesday’s Republican primary in a U.S. House race that she jumped into last year, surviving a sca...
Trump on the debate
Politics
June 25, 2024
Former President Donald Trump knows he overdid it in his first debate with Joe Biden back in September 2020. In a recent conversation at Mar-a-Lago, I said to Trump, “A lot of people thought in the fi...
Politics
June 24, 2024
A MEDICAL EXAMINATION in the aftermath of a sexual assault is not easy. For many people, it is a second traumatic invasion. Even for those committed to working with law enforcement toward prosecution,...
How California’s paradise became our purgatory
Politics
June 24, 2024
California has become a test case of the suicide of the West. Never before has such a state, so rich in natural resources and endowed with such a bountiful human inheritance, self-destructed so rapidl...
Here’s what’s at stake for Biden and Trump in this week’s presidential debate
Politics
By By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer 
June 24, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — Rarely, if ever, has one candidate in a presidential debate had so much material to use against the other. Republican Donald Trump has been convicted of 34 felony counts with serious c...
Republicans choose theocracy over democracy
Politics
June 23, 2024
The far-right Republican governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, has just signed a law requiring every public school classroom in his state to display a copy of the Ten Commandments. “If you want to respe...
Politics
June 23, 2024
PHILIPS RESPIRONICS is taking its manufacturing out of the Westmoreland County communities of Murrysville and Upper Burrell. The Bakery Square workers will head to other locations by the end of the ye...