Our country could use more political leaders like Alan K. Simpson, the former Wyoming U.S. senator who died March 14 at the age of 93.
I got to know Simpson in 1981, duri...
It’s a shame that Chief Justice John Roberts had to take the extraordinary step of chiding President Donald Trump and his cheerleaders for their demands that federal judg...
It’s been five years since the world came to a sudden halt. Outbreaks of a deadly coronavirus — first in China, then in Italy and Iran, and then seemingly everywhere at o...
Five hundred Butler Memorial Hospital nurses are negotiating a new contract for the first time since
Excela Health and Butler Health System merged in 2023.
Butle...
A truce is always better than no truce, and that includes the ceasefire which Ukraine, after discussions with the United States in Saudi Arabia, says it’s ready to comply...
The new best friend of cryptocurrency executives is nicely positioned to help them from his perch in the Oval Office. But as happens to many others in President Donald Tr...
The share of U.S. workers represented by a union ended 2024 at 9.9%. Strip out public sector workers and the rate was 5.9%. Both numbers are even more stunning once you r...
When Luen Ng died at 75 after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in Northeast Philadelphia, few people outside her family knew her story.
But a Spotlight PA investigati...
As if President Donald Trump isn’t busy enough taking a woodchipper to the federal bureaucracy, threatening to wage economic war in North America, putting the screws on U...
Last week, science delivered a really cute experimental result. Researchers created a “colossal woolly mouse,” a fluffy rodent that’s purported to be a step on the way to...
