Politics
December 22, 2025
By JONATHAN J. COOPER AND SEJAL GOVINDARAO Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The next presidential election is three years away, but Turning Point USA already knows it wants Vice President JD Vance as t...
Keep your hat on
Politics
December 22, 2025
MONTREAL — Time for a holiday-season break from the divisions of the day. Surely you can read about war, protests, economic strains, cultural disputes, AI, cryptocurrency, the White House ballroom and...
Politics
December 22, 2025
IN WESTMORELAND COUNTY PRISON, the freedom to worship is treated less as a right than a whim. On multiple occasions, prayer or Bible study gatherings have been disrupted by corrections officers. Tim W...
Top Trump official defends partial release of Epstein files as Dems cry foul
Politics, World Briefly
December 22, 2025
AP WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday defended the Justice Department’s decision to release just a fraction of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the congressionally...
Does either party actually want to win the Texas Senate race?
Politics
December 20, 2025
One of the worst features of the election primary system in our polarized “Red vs. Blue” time is the tendency of primary voters to flock to the candidate they most want to “destroy” the other party, n...
Politics
By By CALVINWOODWARD Associated Press 
December 20, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s glowing account of progress under his watch Wednesday was out of tune with the experience of price-squeezed Americans and the story told by some of his gover...
Politics
December 20, 2025
The spirit of Christmas is alive and well in the Mon Valley, where local churches, civic organizations, volunteer firefighters, police, students, educators and many volunteers in our communities are w...
What to know about Trump’s order seeking to relax federal drug policies for marijuana
Extra, Politics
By By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press 
December 20, 2025
President Donald Trump has directed his administration to work as quickly as possible to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug. Trump’s executive order on Thursday does not legalize marijuana ...
True conservatives fight back
Politics
December 19, 2025
Alittle more than 10 years ago, Jack Danforth, a former Republican senator from Missouri, wrote a prescient essay in Time that declared, “Today’s Republican Hardliners Aren’t ‘Conservatives’ — They’re...
Politics
Time for grades
December 19, 2025
To the Editor: It is that time of year for the annual letter to Santa — a comprehensive list of all one desires to be rewarded with after a year of working extremely hard to be a good boy or girl. Has...
News, Politics
December 19, 2025
THEY PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE. They save hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property from being destroyed every year. They’re ready to help day or night, around the clock, 365 days a year. J...
Politics
By By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press 
December 18, 2025
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Africa has been the hardest hit by the Trump administration’s decision to add 20 countries to a list of travel restrictions but reactions on the continent of some 1.5 billion p...
Politics
December 18, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic senators on Wednesday hammered the Federal Communications Commission’s leader for pressuring broadcasters to take ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off the air, suggesting ...
Politics
December 18, 2025
MORE THAN 30 YEARS AGO, an investigating grand jury last sat to hear and deliberate evidence in Westmoreland County. That was in the 1980s when prosecutors were exploring allegations of law enforcemen...
Politics
December 17, 2025
DO YOU HAVE TWO SPARE hours each week that if you don’t put them to good use, they will be lost forever? Two hours that could be put to good use by doing something special to help some of your neighbo...