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...

Donald Trump is an enigma To the Editor: We should seriously question the Trump influenced thinking of elected Republicans — federal, state or local. Obvious to many Americans, Trump’s credibility is ...

Finally free from the demands of being chief archivist of the United States, secretary of state, national security adviser and unofficial viceroy of Venezuela, Marco Rubio made his way to the Munich S...

It’s a great time to not only renew your faith , but also support local churches, fire departments and businesses as the Lenten season began this week on Ash Wednesday. During the Lenten season, fish ...

REGIONALIZATION IS BECOMING a reality in Pennsylvania. You can see it with police departments, such as the Charleroi Regional Police Department and Southwest Regional Police. In the Alle-Kiski Valley,...

“Stop the Steal!” That was President Trump’s rallying cry as he protested — frequently but falsely — that the 2020 election had been rigged against him. Now that slogan is relevant again — but for two...

A federal judge has accused the Trump administration of terrorizing immigrants and recklessly violating the law in its efforts to deport millions of people living in the country illegally. Citing the ...