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NEW YORK (AP) — The lights are on at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau across the street from the White House, and employees still get paid. But, in practice, the bureau has been mostly inopera...

FAMILY FEATURES As the days stretch longer, summer has a way of calling families to pack up and go, whether it’s for a weekend getaway, family reunion, road trip or one more beach escape. To make the ...

DEAR ABBY: I’m struggling with the end of a friendship that has meant the world to me for most of my life. My best friend of 25 years recently married someone she had known for only a few months. I wa...

• Claudy Coudaille, 31, of North Charleroi was charged with simple assault and terroristic threats with the intention to terrorize another stemming from an alleged incident on Sunday, court records st...

NEW YORK (AP) — In a bid to kickoff a new era for DC Studios, James Gunn’s “Superman” opened with $122 million in U.S. and Canada ticket sales over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. D...

DEAR ABBY: My spouse and I are retired and on Social Security. We’ve both worked hard all our lives and are content living a modest retirement. Our house is paid for, and we have little debt. However,...

• Archbishop Elko Donora Knights of Columbus Council 1941 meeting, K of C room, St. Andrew the Apostle Donora church, 1 Park Manor Road, Donora, 7:30 p.m. • Bingo, Stockdale Volunteer Fire Department,...

Darian Helmantoler was found not guilty of causing her infant son’s death in 2023. A Monongahela woman who was acquitted in the 2023 death of her infant son is suing the Washington County district att...

The U.S. State Department is firing more than 1,300 employees on Friday in line with a dramatic reorganization plan from the Trump administration that critics say will damage America’s global leadersh...

KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday toured the devastation from catastrophic flooding in Texas and lauded local officials amid mounting criticism that they failed to warn resident...

Meetings in local government next week Every week, the Mon Valley Independent editorial staff will share upcoming government meetings around the Mid-Mon Valley. If there’s an item or other event of pu...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Democrats used a Louisiana town hall Thursday night to preview one of their main strategies for attempting to retake the U.S. House next year, ripping into the health care changes i...

A Donora man pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to fentanyl and cocaine trafficking and the unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition, Acting U.S. Attorney Troy Rivetti announced Friday. ...

• Deborah M. Hammerle, 58, of Imperial was charged with DUI and traffic violations stemming from an alleged incident July 4, court records state. • Jacob David Steele, 34, of Mt. Pleasant was charged ...

Six staff members were suspended this week. After the Secret Service announced the suspension of six staffers over failures that led to the attempted assassination of President Trump last year in Butl...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a section of a large industrial tunnel caved in, more than two dozen construction workers who were hundreds of feet below the streets of Los Angeles raced for miles in the dar...

By HOLLY RAMER AND MIKE CATALINI Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A federal judge in New Hampshire issued a ruling Thursday prohibiting President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright ...

• Andrew Fisher, 48, of Lower Burrell was charged with theft by unlawful taking stemming from an alleged incident June 3, court records state. • Ciera D. Roy, 35, of Boston, Pa. was charged with burgl...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said in a Thursday letter that he will raise taxes on many imported goods from Canada to 35%, deepening a rift between two North American countries that have s...