It was only one state senate race in Texas. Low-turnout, off-cycle elections are seldom good predictors of larger trends. And the Democrats had a better candidate: a working- class aircraft mechanic r...

To the Editor: I am writing to express my profound gratitude regarding a recent police incident in our borough of North Belle Vernon. In a community as quiet and unassuming as ours, events like these ...

HOMELESSNESS IS A PROBLEM people often try not to see. There are places where that takes effort. In urban areas, homelessness is more visible — in park encampments and on sidewalks, where people learn...

SNOW DAYS MAKE YOU WANT to be out in the stinging wind, feeling the crunch of drifts under your boots, making angels on the lawn and building a fort to fight off your friends with a volley of solidly ...

Conservatives have complained about media bias for decades. But there is bias and then there is bias. Lots of major media institutions — the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and many others — are ...

By MARY CLARE JALONICK AND JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite rare negotiations between Democrats and President Donald Trump, a bipartisan agreement on new restrictions for fe...

PALM BEACH, Fla. — From his lair at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump sees the sun rising. His sunshine retreat doesn’t allow him to see the sun setting. But it is another of the human senses that may be the m...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton agreed late Monday to testify in a House investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but th...

THE LATEST REPORT ON CTE is both enlightening and alarming. A groundbreaking study from Boston University researchers found that those with CTE have a much higher chance of being diagnosed with dement...

FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH. It is a time when we stop and take a moment to recognize the role Black people have played in the building of our country. From America’s earliest days, Black people w...

To the Editor: With the winter storms and cold weather making the news headlines this past week, there were two stories in the Mon Valley Independent that warmed my heart coming out of Charleroi. Ther...

In the months before the April 12, 1861, firing on Fort Sumter, there were lots of sharp divisions in the North about the proper reaction to the first seven Confederate states that had already left th...

EVERYONE KNOWS 2026 is an important election year. It is a midterm, carrying the familiar post-presidential pressure that takes the political temperature of the country. In Pennsylvania, it is also a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mayor of Portland, Oregon, demanded U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement leave his city after federal agents launched tear gas at a crowd of demonstrators — including you...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday it will be a few days before a government funding package comes up for a vote, all but ensuring the partial federal shutdown will drag into the...

To real-life learning. When winter storms dropped more than a foot of snow across Southwestern Pennsylvania, young people responded the same way — by getting to work. In the South Allegheny School Dis...

The killing of Alex Pretti was unjust and unjustified. While protesting — aka “observing” or “interfering with” — deportation operations, the VA hospital ICU nurse came to the aid of two protesters, o...

To the Editor: Did you ever see a little boy sit on the floor and play with his Army men? This is what I see when Donnie “five time bone spurs” does with our U.S. military. He puts a couple in Los Ang...

The editorial department of the Mon Valley Independent encourages letters to the editor. Letters must be no more than 500 words, must be in good taste and must include the author’s name, town of resid...

A RECORD 45% OF AMERICAN adults now identify as political independents, according to new Gallup polling — up from 33% in 1990. That’s a big change. As the ranks of the politically homeless grow, the s...