It’s crunchtime. If all goes well — and it appears to have gone well — negotiators in Washington will finalize the details of a deal to reopen the government and avoid a...
It appeared to be spontaneous: about 15 people demonstrating Tuesday in front of the regional office of U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly in Sharon, Pa. On Wednesday, that city’s new...
The Republicans’ obsession with Obamacare has been variously described as a tactical ploy to preserve the semblance of unity in a divided party or as a fundraising magne...
The Nobel Peace Prize committee blew it on Friday.
It could have electrified the world by giving the prize to Malala Yousafzai, the courageous Pakistani schoolgirl shot ...
There were no arrests or charges, but it amounted to massive felony theft Saturday when the national electronic benefit transfer (EBT) network failed, briefly enabling f...
The addition of three Nobel laureates — Stanford’s Michael Levitt and Thomas Sudhof and UC Berkeley’s Randy Schekman — to the Bay Area’s long list of winners only enhanc...
Having survived the Civil War, this country should know better than to treat the latest government shutdown as the political equivalent of the Bible’s depiction of Earth...
If you wanted to hear words of sweet conciliation, the White House was the wrong place to go last week.
“We’re not going to pay a ransom for America paying its bills,” P...
Let’s put an end to a growing misperception. Selling Sunnyview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center to a private operator is not the same thing as killing or even weakening...
America’s elected leaders have spent the past few weeks trashing their public standing on Main Street and abroad, and they don’t seem to care.
President Barack Obama’s a...
