To the Editor: As one may recall, a flurry of executive orders were signed by Donald Trump the day he was sworn in as president. The number of orders have been reduced, but continue to have a presence...

THE NATIONAL DEBT isn’t just a big number. It’s a major anchor on economic growth. On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that government bond yields are increasing throughout the globe. As thes...

ACCORDING TO THE PEW RESEARCH Center, about 1,500 data centers are in various stages of development nationwide. It’s an issue hitting Pennsylvania hard. There are more than 3,000 data centers already ...

It’s not too late to make plans today, and why not spend it participating in an event that benefits people from our own communities. Today is the 23rd annual Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital Foundat...

WASHINGTON (AP) — During his first address to a Republican convention in 2016, Donald Trump had an audacious message to a nation yearning for change: “I alone can fix it.” A decade later and nearing t...

Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters says the GOP midterm election “convention” will be a “Trumpapalooza.” It’d be better if everyone called it that. American political conventions are o...

Editor’s Note: Mon Valley Independent Managing Editor Stacy Wolford was a reporter for The Valley Independent when she covered the Flight 93 crash from Shanksville on Sept. 11, 2001. She has returned ...

TODAY is a milestone anniversary, the 25th, of the terrorism attacks that took at least 2,977 lives on Sept. 11, 2001. The deadliest attack on the United States of America, 9/11 is seared indelibly in...

To the Editor: “Jesus loves everyone.” In the eyes of God, there is no difference, when it comes to the color of our skin. There is no discoloration on folks’ skin. God loves us unconditionally, and w...

THE ADULTS IN A CHILD’S LIFE are models. They are who kids will learn to emulate. They put down the footprints that are followed. That’s what makes incidents at youth sports events so upsetting. These...

Anew analysis in the Wall Street Journal offers striking evidence that, for all his problems, President Donald Trump has delivered economic benefits to the voters whose support was the foundation of h...

SEPTEMBER IS SUICIDE PREVENTION MONTH, a time to raise awareness of this urgently important crisis. We use this month to shift public perception, spread hope and share vital information to people affe...

To the Editor: A recent letter writer remarked that our excursion in Iran would take four to six weeks and that we were now past the six-month point. The writer lamented that Mr. Trump has no idea how...

It seems like only yesterday. Tragedies sometimes have that effect. The good times — the triumphs, the moments of joy — aren’t forgotten, but are remembered in a smudge of memory. The great sadnesses ...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. When the Buffalo Bills play their 2026 season home opener in the newly built Highmark St...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. By KEVIN B. JOHNSON Professor of Pediatrics, Biomedical Informatics and Science Communic...

BY JEFF OLIVER For the MVI Have you ever made a great friend that grew out of a situation that started in jest and borderline ridicule? Well, that’s how I got started to get close with Steve Beck. Bec...

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST AND GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Sunday renewed its appeal to the Supreme Court to allow new restrictions on mail ballots in time fo...

IT SHOULD NOT TAKE AN OFFICIAL ruling to realize that a pension needs to be kept sound. A pension is a contract between employer and employee. The employee does the work, putting in time and money for...

it was a war for oil So, after all. On social media Friday, President Trump announced that the United States and Venezuela have struck an agreement for “THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY.” The who...