DALLAS (AP) — As people gathered across the U.S. to celebrate Juneteenth on Friday, former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama welcomed the first visitors to his presidential c...

ZURICH (AP) — The American push to quickly begin high-stakes talks with Iran hit a snag Friday, just days after the signing of an agreement that opens a two-month window for negotiations on Tehran’s n...

By Peter Hall and Whitney Downard, Pennsylvania Capital-Star June 17, 2026 Data center developers would be required to pledge transparency in Pennsylvania communities where they want to build in order...

By Whitney Downard, Pennsylvania Capital-Star June 18, 2026 I have a confession: I’m behind on my dental check-ups. I’m fortunate to have inherited some pretty resilient teeth, but my addiction to sug...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an agreement with Iran on Wednesday that calls for Tehran to dilute its stockpile of highly enriched uranium and waives U.S.-backed sanctions on the cou...

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Capital-Star The days of ground beef and chicken legs are long gone at the Ritenour Co-Care Food Pantry just outside of St. Louis. The nonprofit has swapped out those staple proteins for cheaper groun...

By Jonathan Shorman, Pennsylvania Capital-Star June 16, 2026 As election officials across the country steel themselves for the midterm elections in less than five months, President Donald Trump’s exec...

By JUSTIN VELLUCCI AND JULIA BURDELSKI TribLive Pennsylvania has given $125,000 to the South Side Community Action Network to pay for private security this summer at the South Side Street Fest, an adu...

A Wisconsin beagle breeding and research facility that’s been the site of recent violent protests is closing, and its remaining dogs are being taken in by a Florida rescue group. Big Dog Ranch Rescue ...

By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS AND SHARON LURYE AP Education Writers FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The Catholic school tour ended, and Maria Contreras felt an overwhelming desire to enroll her 7-year-old. But fi...

NEW YORK (AP) — Many workers fear machines will supplant them as adoption of artificial intelligence accelerates. But what if people have qualities both unmistakably human and essential to career succ...

By The Philadelphia Inquirer In late April, Joshua Good got a call from a parent at Ephrata Mennonite School: Two of their children had been diagnosed with measles. Good, who heads the private religio...

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Lincoln Peirce, the creator of the powerhouse comic “Big Nate,” concluded the daily version of the comic strip on Saturday. The Sunday version will continue with a new comic every week. The Mon Valley...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An initial agreement between the United States and Iran to extend their shaky ceasefire inched toward a formal signing despite questions Monday over the fate of Tehr...

By Emily Previti, Pennsylvania Capital-Star June 15, 2026 Key points A 7,500-person ICE detention center planned for a former Big Lots warehouse in Tremont Township would add more people to the area t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump marked his 80th birthday on Sunday by hailing an initial agreement to end the war in Iran and staging a once unfathomable cage-fighting show on the storied Sou...

Lincoln Peirce, the creator of the powerhouse comic “Big Nate,” concluded the daily version of the comic strip on Saturday. The Sunday version will continue with a new comic every week. The Mon Valley...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Six months after President Donald Trump warned states not to regulate artificial intelligence, they are increasingly doing just that. Congress has stalled on producing federal r...