WASHINGTON — Has the monster of exploding health costs finally been slain? After five years of slow spending growth, it’s tempting to think so. This would be fabulous ne...
Watching Congress at work last week, it might seem as though things were better with a do-nothing Congress.
Late last week, Congress was back to its old tricks, gaming t...
As Republicans in Congress gear up in January for their most aggressive attack yet on President Barack Obama’s health-care reforms, here’s something they probably won’t ...
When President Bill Clinton and 33 other heads of state held a milestone Summit of the Americas in Miami 20 years ago this week, they committed their countries to the dr...
Applause for law enforcement agencies next door in Armstrong County, where a seven-month investigation ended with a drug raid last week that netted about 200 bricks of h...
NEW YORK — Even some of those who have supported the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s torture report agree that it could damage American interests abroad. ...
Even though many of the brutal interrogation techniques used by the CIA in secret prisons were known before the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report thi...
Slap an exclamation point or two behind the latest unemployment figure — 4.5 percent!! — posted for Butler County.
That’s half a percentage point lower than the Septembe...
WASHINGTON — The report by Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding CIA interrogation essentially accuses the agency under George W. Bush of war criminal...
Haltingly, with understandable ambivalence, the American labor movement is morphing into something new. Its most prominent organizing campaigns of recent years — of fast...
