Politics
February 10, 2025
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE between an investment and a purchase? Apparently, it could be enough to move President Donald Trump’s sentiments on the relationship between U.S. Steel and would-be buyer Nippon...
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By By JILL COLVIN Associated Press 
February 10, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he is serious about wanting Canada to become the 51st state in an interview that aired Sunday during the Super Bowl preshow. “Yeah it is,” Trump told Fox ...
Politics
February 8, 2025
Thumbs down to flu season. February is bringing cold weather — and influenza. That means flu, as well as COVID, pneumonia and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Statewide, there were 21,469 cases of F...
Many will lie about the consequences of Trump’s tariffs. The markets won’t
Politics
February 8, 2025
Thank God for the stock market. The market is one of the only things Donald Trump can be expected to listen to — likely more than polls and certainly more than his advisers — even when he doesn’t want...
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Basket full of deplorables
February 8, 2025
To the Editor: January’s potent one-two punch of bone-chilling temperatures and wintry weather reminds us how important it is that Pennsylvanians have access to dependable utility service to economica...
Politics
February 7, 2025
By GENE JOHNSON AND MIKE CATALINI Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A second federal judge in two days has blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship for the children of paren...
Foreign aid helps America
Politics
February 7, 2025
In 2017, when now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio was a senator from Florida, he posted this on social media about the United States Agency for International Development: “Foreign Aid is not charity. W...
Politics
February 7, 2025
WHAT’S NEXT FOR MONROEVILLE MALL? The 186-acre retail destination was sold by CBL Properties last week. The price tag? About $34 million. That’s nothing compared with the $231 million CBL paid when it...
Politics
February 6, 2025
By AAMER MADHANI AND ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump promised voters an administration that wouldn’t waste precious American lives and taxpayer treasure on far-of...
DEI hires unite!
Politics
February 6, 2025
Last week, Donald Trump unaccountably blamed DEI for the catastrophic plane crash in Washington, D.C. — a claim that was “baseless” and “without evidence,” as noted a very reasonable 1 million times b...
Politics
February 6, 2025
GOV. JOSH SHAPIRO laid out a plan for cooperation in his budget address Tuesday. Heading into his third budget negotiation, he outlined priorities that might be consensus builders between his Democrat...
Politics
February 5, 2025
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER AND MEG KINNARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of senior officials put on leave. Thousands of contractors laid off. A freeze put on billions of dollars in humanitarian a...
Politics
February 4, 2025
To the Editor: The Associated Press should stand for the Associated Propagandists for the Left and Democrat party. They insert so many lies or half truths in their reporting it is really sad they thin...
Saints of New York
Politics
February 4, 2025
“When shall I begin to give myself entirely to him, who has given himself unreservedly to me?” New York may not be your idea of a hotbed for holiness. But the quote above comes from Father Isaac Jogue...
Mexico — Friend, enemy, neutral, or something else?
Politics
February 4, 2025
exican nationals, Mlikely cartel members, recently crossed the border and shot and wounded an American hiker. Did they assume that Joe Biden was still president, and so it was still a veritable open s...
Politics
February 4, 2025
AS NATIONAL EYES focus on the midair collision of a commercial plane with a military helicopter over the Potomac River, and the medical plane crash in Philadelphia, concerns remain about how to preven...
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By By NICHOLAS R. MICINSKI University of Maine The Conversation 
February 4, 2025
The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. As diplomatic spats go, it was short-lived. On Jan 26, 2025, Colombian President Gustavo...
Politics
February 4, 2025
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In its first direct criticism of the Trump administration, North Korea lashed out at U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio for calling it a “rogue” state and warned Monday that...
Party unity is no easy feat with a leader like Trump
Politics
February 1, 2025
Donald Trump has long complained that Democrats are better at sticking together than Republicans are. He’s already revisited this gripe. In meetings with Republican leaders from the House and Senate a...