How do destructive ideas and bouts of collective madness so quickly become policy, law, and the status quo? After all, most have little public support—and are not Western nations supposedly rationally...

By AMIR-HUSSEIN RADJY, SARAH EL DEEB, KAREEM CHEHAYEB and LEE KEATH Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Some of the jubilation was open and even raucous — people dancing in Iranian streets, honking car horn...

IT CAN BE HARD TO UNDERSTAND in a world of soda cans and smartphones that there was a time when aluminum was rarer than diamonds. That changed in Southwestern Pennsylvania. It wasn’t that aluminum was...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton testified Friday before members of Congress investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, answering for his connections to the disgraced financi...

Imight as well say it clearly: I’m for regime change in Iran. The Islamic fanatics who have been running Iran since 1979 are murderers, torturers and exporters of terrorism. They are despised, or at l...

It was great to see McKeesport firefighters coming together with students in McKeesport Area High School’s new Protective Services Class. The fire department donated several pieces of used equipment t...

MORE THAN A DECADE AFTER Charleroi lost its last Veterans of Foreign Wars post, a group of local veterans is working to bring one back — and organizers say the effort is about more than reopening a cl...

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AND PAUL WISEMAN Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump sought in his first State of the Union address to sell Americans on the idea of a booming econ...

Donald Trump has waged war on the news media his entire career, frequently deriding journalists as “enemies of the people” and “real scum.” In his second term, he has gone far beyond name-calling, sui...

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...

TARIFFS HAVE CREATED economic confusion over the past year. Some don’t really understand what they are or how they impact prices in the U.S. Some support them as an American trade policy even if they ...

To the Editor: Lately I’ve been inspired by letter writers with positive views and optimistic messages and also by writers who give credit where credit is due. Therefore praises to the entire staff of...

In the end, the conflict between federal immigration authorities and protesters in Minneapolis boiled down to one fundamental policy question: Should sanctuary cities be allowed to exist? Should citie...

By REGGIE WILLIAMS AND DAVID M. SHRIBMAN When Black leaders proceeded from Selma to Birmingham, Alabama, in 1965 to demonstrate for voting rights, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel marched beside the Rev. ...

EDUCATION HAS BEEN CRITICIZED in recent years — decades, really — for not teaching children how to think so much as teaching them how to take tests. Specifically, students have learned exactly what th...

To the Editor: After the fall of the Soviet Union, Mayor Yuri Luzhkov turned Moscow’s Public Works Department into a personally-owned construction company. For a while his wife was the richest woman i...

Why would any president destroy the U.S. southern border? The Left typically “pounces” on anyone daring to suggest that the Biden administration had green-lighted illegal immigration to gain new const...

WE GOT A KICK OUT OF AN OLD chestnut among conspiracy theorists — whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe and whether any of those aliens have visited Earth — that rose to the surfac...

PENNSYLVANIA LAWMAKERS are embroiled in the annual dance in balancing our collective checkbook — the state budget. At the same time, the Keystone State is offering a tax exemption to data center devel...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AP) — Over and over, the Republicans and former Republicans who gathered just outside Washington this weekend warned that President Donald Trump and his allies in Congress are te...