War is the use of arms to settle differences— tribal, political, religious, cultural, and material—between organized groups. It is unchanging. The general laws of armed conflict stays immutable, given...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump promised that 2026 would be a bumper year for economic growth, but instead it has kicked off with job losses, rising gasoline prices and more uncertainty about...

THREE THINGS COLLIDED in Pittsburgh last week: hatred, technology and infrastructure. The result was antisemitic threats against Mayor Corey O’Connor broadcast over a public safety radio channel used ...

It is a special kind of folly to make longterm predictions amid the fog of war. Nobody knows how Operation Epic Fury will end. But there are already a few things we can celebrate and condemn. On the c...

Weekend checklist: Reset your clocks and change your fire alarm batteries as Daylight Saving Time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday, marking the time when clocks “spring forward.” It will stay lighter for longe...

As President Trump continues to bombard Iran, triggering violent reprisals across the Middle East, is he also blasting Republican chances for controlling Congress after this fall’s midterm elections? ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans invoked the war in Iran and the prospect of retaliatory terrorist attacks as they made another unsuccessful effort Thursday to pass a bill funding the Department of Homel...

THIS WEEKEND, MANY OF US will lose an hour of sleep as clocks will shift ahead. Daylight saving time will begin, delaying the moment day becomes night more than four months after it concluded in Novem...

SPRING WILL SOON BE upon us and just like warmer weather and longer days, this time of year also brings with it high school musicals. We know how much spring musical season means to students, teachers...

For many years in the 1970s, 1980s and into the 1990s, discussions of the use of U.S. military force suffered from an effect known as Vietnam Syndrome. Many Americans simply could not consider any pro...

A CAPITAL CASE IN ALLEGHENY COUNTY may be delayed because another prosecutor assigned to it is leaving the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office. Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Berosh said...

To the Editor: A filter is defined as a material that allows certain substances to pass while keeping other substances out. In referring to a filter as a mechanism used by an individual as one conveys...

SWAMPSCOTT, Mass. — “No star fades faster than that of a high-school athlete,” the author John Grisham wrote in his 2006 book “The Innocent Man.” Today’s column is about a high school athlete whose st...

SPIRIT AIRLINES HAS BEEN experiencing turbulence. In November 2024, the budget carrier filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Ten months later, the company filed again. This week, Spirit’s parent company — ...

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...