Vice President JD Vance faced an impossible task trying to negotiate an end to the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. That Vance failed is no surprise, given Iran’s so-far implacable resistance to the dem...

ON SATURDAY, GREENSBURG Diocese Bishop Larry J. Kulick gathered people at Blessed Sacrament Cathedral to bow their heads and share hope for a common goal: peace. The vigil came at a time when many peo...

To the Editor: TACO made a lot of promises to the hard-working citizens of the U.S. He said we would get tired of winning but didn’t tell us when this winning was going to start. He said on his first ...

War is a great engine of change, sweeping aside assumptions, toppling established power relationships, driving new forces into play, rearranging long-held theories and challenging orthodoxies. That ha...

WHEN YOU FILL OUT A FORM to do anything, there is certain information you expect to provide. Name. Address. Phone number or email. Those are the ways you are identified, how your residency is establis...

The Left and some on the Right went crazy over President Donald Trump’s recent tweet. He warned that if the Iranian regime did not cease blocking the international Strait of Hormuz, he would hit its d...

If you don’t know former Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, he’s the first to tell you these days that he wasn’t ready for the fight of Washington, in some respects. He wasn’t a politician -- honestly, the man ...

BANGKOK (AP) — China said Sunday it would resume some ties it had suspended with Taiwan such as direct flights and imports of Taiwanese aquaculture products following a visit by the Beijing-friendly o...

IN PREPARATION FOR THE VAST crowds expected to flood Pittsburgh for the NFL Draft, proactive steps are being taken. Businesses are allowing — or encouraging — employees to work from home. Pittsburgh P...

It is among the most familiar patterns of the Trump era. First, the president says or does something weird, rude or otherwise norm-defying. Some elected Republicans object, and the response from Trump...

A summer tradition will begin next weekend as Kennywood will open for its 128th season on April 18. The new season will feature new food options, ride tributes, beautification projects, weekend events...

Iread with sadness in Thursday’s edition of the Mon Valley Independent the passing of John Bennati, who left us at the age of 86. Bennati was a leader at the former The Valley Independent where he ser...

AMONG THE FEW THINGS AMERICANS agree on these days is that housing is too expensive. With a shortfall of at least 3.7 million homes, the obvious solution is to build more. Regrettably, a once-promisin...

Trump has President been pressuring Senate Republicans to trash the filibuster and pass a bill disenfranchising millions of voters and boosting their party’s chances of controlling Congress after next...

IT WOULD BE EASY TO LOOK at the closure of schools such as Triangle Tech and assume demand for skilled trades is slipping. That isn’t what the data shows. National Student Clearinghouse data, in fact,...

President Donald Trump says he finds it insulting to hear critics say he does not have a plan to win the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. “People say he doesn’t have a plan,” Trump told reporters Monday. “I ...

WE HAVE BECOME INURED to the way politics bleeds into everything. Harrisburg and Washington are defined by division. We have come to expect the animosity. In our neighborhoods, it spills over into red...

To the Editor: Trump was obsessed with becoming president but did nothing to prepare himself for the job. He just wasn’t interested in the rest of the world. Defense Secretary Hegseth, a man ripped fr...

Same destination, different country. The nation that dares to send an Orion space vessel on a pioneering orbit around the moon is a far different place from the one that first ventured there and place...

“What is your number?” This is the question Catholic bishops are asking one another, according to Cardinal Robert McElroy of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. He was quoted in a New York Times piece...