“I had God on my side,” he told the convention. MILWAUKEE (AP) — Donald Trump, somber and bandaged, accepted the GOP presidential nomination on Thursday at the Republican National Convention in a spee...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats at the highest levels are making a critical push for President Joe Biden to rethink his election bid, with former President Barack Obama expressing concerns to allies and S...

If you were worried that liberals would tone down the apocalyptic rhetoric about Donald Trump after Saturday’s assassination attempt — He’s an existential threat to democracy! A fascist! An aspiring d...

To the Editor: The World War II War Memorial Tank at Monessen City Park is your tank — do you want visitors of our city to think we don’t care and respect what it means? The Tank Restoration project i...

Ted Cruz, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis were among Tuesday’s convention speakers. MILWAUKEE (AP) — Donald Trump was feted Tuesday at the Republican National Convention by former rivals who once leveled...

To the Editor: If you have not seen the Grizwells cartoon in the Mon Valley Independent on July 3, the gist of the cartoon was when we become a dictatorship the immigration problem will be solved beca...

Former President Donald Trump can’t stop thinking about the way he moved his head in the split second before a gunman, intent on assassinating him, pulled the trigger during his speech in Pennsylvania...

THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A TIME when it was this important to consume the news critically. It is important to know what is happening. This is an Olympic year and an election year. There are wars raging in...

VIOLENCE AND DEMOCRACY cannot exist in the same arena. On Saturday, former president and GOP candidate Donald Trump was struck by a bullet as he spoke to an enthusiastic crowd of supporters in Butler ...

Leonid Brezhnev led the former Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Communist Party until 1982. But like most Russian apparatchiks who excessively smoked, drank, and gained weight, he aged prematu...

Pro-life people believe abortion to be the human rights issue of our lifetime, one with eternal stakes. With the Republican Party’s changes to its platform regarding abortion, it’s hard to believe the...

PENNSYLVANIA’S HISTORY as a swing state always gets attention during presidential election years. In the last two such elections, it has made all the difference. Suburban voters in Beaver, Butler and ...

My sister recently told me that her former supervisor at a small-town library doesn’t believe the moon landings were real. I was stunned to hear that, but I shouldn’t have been. My sister’s former bos...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Before Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, there have been multiple instances of political violence targeting U.S. presidents, former presidents and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday appealed for the country to “unite as one nation” after the attempted assassination of his predecessor, Donald Trump, and said he was ordering an indepe...

Donald Trump isn’t normally thought of as a consensus- builder, but in one sense that’s exactly what he is. Many of Trump’s most ardent fans and foes alike believe he is the leader of a political move...

By ZEKE MILLER, JOEY CAPPELLETTI and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Four years ago, candidate Joe Biden stood before supporters at a Detroit high school, flanked by Kamala Harris and ot...

Most polls are showing the former president with a lead in his race against Joe Biden. For all the usual stagecraft, the Republican National Convention that opens Monday is different from Donald Trump...

Calls for the president to end his race for reelection continued Friday. WASHINGTON (AP) — Nancy Pelosi’s phone lit up the night of President Joe Biden’s debate performance with a question that has ye...

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge threw out Rudy Giuliani ‘s bankruptcy case on Friday, slamming the former New York City mayor as a “recalcitrant debtor” who thumbed his nose at the process while seeking to sh...