BEING SICK IS EXPENSIVE, but being prepared for it is becoming exorbitant. And for Pennsylvanians who buy their own health insurance, it’s about to get worse. This week, the Pennsylvania Insurance Dep...

The flight of Hispanic voters from the Republican Party is one of the most important trends this political season, and a few numbers explain why. In the latest New York Times poll, only 7% of Hispanic...

“It’s hard to bear yourself at the foot of the cross. And it’s hard to recognize your own shortcomings, but it’s also the only thing that helps.” Claire Lai had been reading Fulton J. Sheen, the archb...

ALLEGHENY COUNTY BOARD of Health has rehabilitated its proposal for paid parental leave. The board had originally proposed 18 weeks of paid leave for employees of any business in the county. It’s the ...

Did you know that recently released Census Bureau statistics show the poverty rate in the United States fell to a record low in 2025? That’s an extraordinary development, but it has so far not attract...

Barney Frank, the irascible but indispensable liberal lawmaker from Massachusetts who died this spring, was never known as a man of few words. Yet the opening of his book, issued posthumously just the...

TWICE DURING PRESIDENT TRUMP’S first term, his administration tried to prevent a journalist whose work it did not like from reporting at the White House. Twice, judges rejected the moves as unconstitu...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — There is not much that diplomats can agree on these days. But if asked about the state of the world ahead of the annual meeting at the U.N. General Assembly, heads of state and g...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney now believes he is more than just the Western foil to President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement—he is the global one. Accordingly, he seems determined to demonst...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE may be the closest thing our age has produced to Mr. Spock of “Star Trek”: brilliant, analytical and seemingly governed by pure logic. Ask AI a question, and it can process eno...

Good news from McKeesport! The feckless administrations of former state Sen. Jimmy Brewster and former Mayor Mike Cherepko have been replaced by new Mayor Tom Maglicco. It is a great improvement. Magl...

WHAT IS THE BALANCE between access and order? It’s a question that can draw lines between government bodies as big as the White House and as small as the tiniest municipalities on one side and the peo...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. By MORGAN BAZILIAN AND JAMIE WEBSTER Colorado School of Mines Diesel fuel prices in the ...

One of the challenges with writing about the war in — and on — Ukraine is that so little changes. I don’t mean the fighting on the ground, though even there, when viewed from a distance, it doesn’t lo...

It’s Hall of Fame weekend at Elizabeth Forward High School and an induction banquet will be held today to honor the nine honorees (six Hall of Fame, two Educator Recognition and one Outstanding Young ...

MANY PEOPLE PARTICIPATE in a court case rolling through the justice system properly, but the major responsibility sits on the shoulders of the prosecution. The U.S. Constitution makes that clear. Ther...

“Please pretend that I am running,” Trump told Republicans at their recent convention in Dallas. Well, no one has to pretend. Democrats agree completely. They also want voters to view the November ele...

JURY DUTY IS NOT quite like death and taxes. Yes, like death, it can pop up unexpectedly and it might be narrowly avoided at the last moment. Yes, like taxes, it is part of what we pay for being part ...

Last week, the Commerce Department released inflation figures for August, and what they showed was ... more of the same. The year-over-year inflation rate last month was 3.4%, a rate unchanged from Ju...

To the Editor: While so many of us dummies were sleeping, the greatest hero in the world was saving us. You know that wonderful, handsome, loving leader of our country, who sent our army out and arres...