Here is a bit of history of which you are likely unaware: A Black man named Robert Smalls — a Civil War hero after a daring escape from slavery, later a Reconstruction-era legislator and congressman —...

BUTLER COUNTY HAS BEEN Trump country from the beginning. North of the Democratic island of Allegheny County, Butler County is not hesitant in its support of former president and GOP nominee Donald Tru...

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — The Secret Service has acknowledged it denied some requests by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign for increased security at his events in the years bef...

He will address Congress on Wednesday and plans to meet with both the president and vice president. JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to Washington today, leaving behind...

WASHINGTON (AP) — She’s already broken barriers, and now Kamala Harris could shatter several more after President Joe Biden abruptly ended his reelection bid and endorsed her. Biden announced Sunday t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A rapidly growing chorus of Democratic lawmakers called Friday for President Joe Biden to drop his reelection bid, even as the president insisted he’s ready to return to the campaign...

One can hardly fault Donald Trump for believing divine providence is on his side. He’s had the most impressive lucky streak in living political memory. While his debate performance was exceptional onl...

WASHINGTON (AP) — To borrow a favorite phrase from the man himself, President Joe Biden is at an inflection point. Is his on-the-ropes reelection campaign about public service or his ego? About securi...

AN UNPRECEDENTED STRAIN of bird flu is spreading among dairy cattle in the U.S.An outbreak of a flesh-eating bacteria has infected more than 1,000 people in Japan. At least 13 communicable diseases in...

After Donald Trump was almost killed by a sniper, he didn’t hide behind his Secret Service protectors. He struggled to his feet, looked directly at the photographers who were frantically trying to rec...

“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster,” Friedrich Nietzsche famously wrote. “And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” ...

“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 ...