It’s great to see curtains going up. All over the Mon Valley things are a little dramatic right now. It is the height of spring musical season, and in middle schools and high schools across the region...

Let’s state the obvious: We’re at war with Iran. My evidence? Turn on your TV. U.S. forces, working with Israel, killed the supreme leader of Iran and many of his top aides. We sunk Iran’s navy and de...

AS ELECTION REFORMS have become a key issue across the nation, independent voters in Pennsylvania still cannot cast a ballot in primary elections. That’s because Pennsylvania’s election law shuts out ...

The single biggest reason Donald Trump won the last election boils down to two words: gas and groceries. Joe Biden’s failure to control prices on those key commodities enabled Trump, who has never won...

To the Editor: Whatever happened to cocaine in the White House (the most protected home on earth)? Joe Biden was president and his drug-addicted son, Hunter, was in residence. Cameras were and still a...

FRAUD IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS that happens to other people. That’s what we want to believe. That’s true of plenty of bad stuff in life. Fires, crimes, cancer — all of that is easier to accept when we d...

Recently, the usual suspects became very excited by what they viewed as an explosive revelation in the Jeffrey Epstein case. The Justice Department, they alleged, had suppressed an account of a woman ...

is the moment This when total war meets the fog of war. Not in tiny steps but in one great leap, the United States has triggered, and itself soon will experience, a frightful period of total war that ...

WESTMORELAND COUNTY has an overtime problem. TribLive reporting shows regular reliance on overtime has pushed some employees’ earnings far beyond their base salaries. In 2025 alone, county workers mad...

To the Editor: On Jan. 20, meinfuhrer Trump and his fascist cabinet and corrupt appointees took control of our government. They immediately, upon taking power, spit on our constitution and bill of rig...

WHEN WE WATCH WAR unfold on television, there is fear and uncertainty. But there also can be the detachment of distance. It is not a comfort, but it can be insulating to know what is happening is so f...

To the Editor: It was a very shameful display the way the Democrats behaved at the recent State of the Union address. From those elected who chose not to be there, to holding up a protest sign, to not...

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...