To judge from the headlines, Congress managed to accomplish the nearly impossible last week by approving a budget, the first joint budget resolution passed since 2009. B...
This week, President Obama will gather kings, emirs and sheiks from the oil-rich monarchies of the Persian Gulf at Camp David for a summit aimed at bolstering the U.S. a...
Common sense tells us — and national security sense implores us — that we must find a way of accurately and apolitically measuring the significance of a years-old tale t...
Key provisions of the Patriot Act, which was passed in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, expire at the end of this month. Congress is debating whether to rene...
The ease of making contributions online has helped Americans become much more generous to other countries, especially when disaster strikes. Since a magnitude 7.8 earthq...
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U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-3rd, says he wants answers from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Good luck.
Since the beginning of the project to build a new h...
WASHINGTON — We often wonder how people of the past, including the most revered and refined, could have universally engaged in conduct now considered unconscionable. Suc...
The Butler School District approved a consolidation plan Wednesday evening that will bring dramatic changes to the district by the start of school this fall.
The vote ca...
Last fall, Congress was on the verge of doing away with the most troubling invasion of privacy revealed by Edward Snowden: the National Security Agency’s indiscriminate ...
When President Obama announced nine months ago that the United States was going to war against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Congress reached an unusual near-consensu...
