To the Editor: If you have not seen the Grizwells cartoon in the Mon Valley Independent on July 3, the gist of the cartoon was when we become a dictatorship the immigration problem will be solved beca...

Former President Donald Trump can’t stop thinking about the way he moved his head in the split second before a gunman, intent on assassinating him, pulled the trigger during his speech in Pennsylvania...

THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A TIME when it was this important to consume the news critically. It is important to know what is happening. This is an Olympic year and an election year. There are wars raging in...

VIOLENCE AND DEMOCRACY cannot exist in the same arena. On Saturday, former president and GOP candidate Donald Trump was struck by a bullet as he spoke to an enthusiastic crowd of supporters in Butler ...

Leonid Brezhnev led the former Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Communist Party until 1982. But like most Russian apparatchiks who excessively smoked, drank, and gained weight, he aged prematu...

Pro-life people believe abortion to be the human rights issue of our lifetime, one with eternal stakes. With the Republican Party’s changes to its platform regarding abortion, it’s hard to believe the...

PENNSYLVANIA’S HISTORY as a swing state always gets attention during presidential election years. In the last two such elections, it has made all the difference. Suburban voters in Beaver, Butler and ...

My sister recently told me that her former supervisor at a small-town library doesn’t believe the moon landings were real. I was stunned to hear that, but I shouldn’t have been. My sister’s former bos...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Before Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, there have been multiple instances of political violence targeting U.S. presidents, former presidents and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday appealed for the country to “unite as one nation” after the attempted assassination of his predecessor, Donald Trump, and said he was ordering an indepe...

Donald Trump isn’t normally thought of as a consensus- builder, but in one sense that’s exactly what he is. Many of Trump’s most ardent fans and foes alike believe he is the leader of a political move...

By ZEKE MILLER, JOEY CAPPELLETTI and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Four years ago, candidate Joe Biden stood before supporters at a Detroit high school, flanked by Kamala Harris and ot...

Most polls are showing the former president with a lead in his race against Joe Biden. For all the usual stagecraft, the Republican National Convention that opens Monday is different from Donald Trump...

Calls for the president to end his race for reelection continued Friday. WASHINGTON (AP) — Nancy Pelosi’s phone lit up the night of President Joe Biden’s debate performance with a question that has ye...

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge threw out Rudy Giuliani ‘s bankruptcy case on Friday, slamming the former New York City mayor as a “recalcitrant debtor” who thumbed his nose at the process while seeking to sh...

“I’m getting frustrated by the elites in the party,” President Joe Biden vented on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “’Oh, they know so much more.’Any of these guys that don’t think I should run, run against me....

We’ll probably learn within a week or two whether President Joe Biden’s vow to persist in his 2024 candidacy will hold, or whether he’ll yield to what Democrats urging him to step aside see as politic...

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers are imploring a New York judge to overturn his hush money conviction and dismiss the case, arguing his historic trial was “tainted” by evidence that shouldn’t ha...

The president conducted a press conference in response to calls from donors and fellow Democrats for him to step down. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden used his highly anticipated news conference...

PLEASE SAY MARC FOGEL’S NAME. Say his name, say it often, say it in important places and bring him home. Fogel, 62, is a teacher from Oakmont who has spent his whole adult life teaching kids in foreig...