IT USED TO BE COMMON to see “Let’s Make a Deal” contestants leave the TV game show smiling after winning $100 for every coin they could pull out of their purse or pocket. But as America moves ever clo...

When MSNBC signed off at 3 a.m. the first night of the Republican National Convention, they were still talking about Melania’s speech. For five solid hours, MSNBC had been obsessing over two paragraph...

DID YOU TURN on the heat yet? It’s a touchy topic in some households as October settles into its annual indecision. Sixteen days in, the month has had highs in the 80s and lows in the 30s. It creates ...

To the Editor: The recent uproar with the 80-foot high, two-sided sign at the Belle Vernon Area School District transportation building should be applauded. I’m not certain that this next idea would h...

Both the Harris-Walz presidential ticket and now lameduck President Joe Biden keep insisting that they are Israel’s best friend. A snarly Biden recently bragged at a contentious press conference, “No ...

EVERY YEAR, THE NATIONAL Network to End Domestic Violence conducts a survey of those seeking help. It is not a total for the year. It is a snapshot of one day. How many people reached out? How many pe...

IS A PRIVATE FACEBOOK PAGE a public record? It’s a complicated question — so complicated that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is being asked to decide. The line between public and private isn’t as blac...

“Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.” — Jonathan Swift, 1710 I am old enough to remember predictions of the glorious promise of the internet, which optimists declared would usher in...

If Donald Trump loses the election, to hear him and his campaign tell it, the fate of the Republican Party should be the least of our concerns: his defeat would spell the end of the nation itself and ...

If Kamala Harris loses the election next month, one big reason will be the steady drift of Latino voters away from the Democrats. In a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, Harris led Donald Trump...

To the Editor: It’s so sad to read about the closing of area personal care homes. I feel sorry for the people in them and their families. Where will they go? How far away will they have to go if there...

THE TRAGIC SCENES from Hurricane Helene’s path of destruction are nothing short of heartbreaking. In the week and a half since it made landfall, subjecting coastlines across the Southeast to storm sur...

NEW PROGRAMS in government often are nothing new at all. They are frequently just repackaged versions of previous ideas. When the opioid settlement with states and counties across the country was anno...

To the Editor: Donald Trump called out who was coming across our border along with people legitimately seeking asylum. He said murderers, rapists, thieves, and more, were just walking in. The left has...

The fundamental problem with Kamala Harris’s campaign promises is that she has served as vice president of the United States for nearly four years. All those things she is out on the campaign trail pl...

By MATT BROWN AND LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Black registered voters have an overwhelmingly positive view of Vice President Kamala Harris, but they’re less sure that she would c...

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Kashmir’s biggest political party opposed to India’s stripping of the region’s semi-autonomy won the most seats in a local election, official data showed Tuesday, in a vote seen...

“So What?” According to special counsel Jack Smith, that was Donald Trump expressing his trademark compassion, care and concern for his vice president, Mike Pence, who was being threatened by the Jan....

By SCOTT BAUER and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press JUNEAU, Wis. (AP) — Donald Trump on Sunday visited Wisconsin for the fourth time in eight days as his campaign showers attention on a pivotal st...

ON NOV. 5, Pennsylvanians will turn out by the millions to cast ballots for offices including state legislators, a couple of Pennsylvania row offices, federal representatives and a U.S. senator. Oh ye...