Nation & World, News, PA State News
Dec 08, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Come January, Guy Reschenthaler will be playing for keeps. When the 119th Congress convenes in January, Republicans will hold a tri...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 13, 2023
Republicans looked like they were heading for a no-win debacle on the House floor in their fight over speaker. Instead, Kevin McCarthy got over the to...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 10, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Rep. Kevin McCarthy won his 15th bid to become speaker of the House, but only at great cost. To win the votes he needed to secure t...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 09, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — The television split screen told the story. On one side, Republicans in the House of Representatives labored through the fourth of ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 02, 2023
The 118th Congress convenes today with each party holding a slim majority in one chamber. In the Senate, a Democratic coalition enjoys a 51-49 advanta...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 05, 2022
The midterm elections didn’t provide the red wave Republicans had expected, but they nevertheless gained a small majority in the House of Representati...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 18, 2022
Kevin McCarthy may now have the hardest job in Washington. Assuming that he becomes speaker of the House, which will require the near-unanimous suppor...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 24, 2022
WASHINGTON (TNS) — With Election Day two weeks away, Republican prospects of taking control of the House of Representatives , already strong, appear t...
Jan 11, 2022
Lucky countries have celebrations that remind their citizens of what binds them together — think Memorial Day or the Fourth of July. Unlucky countries...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 11, 2022
Lucky countries have celebrations that remind their citizens of what binds them together — think Memorial Day or the Fourth of July. Unlucky countries...
Сolumns
May 27, 2021
Forgive Americans if they no longer remember that the elephant is the symbol of the Republican Party. Elephants are supposed to never forget, yet Repu...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 25, 2021
It may seem impossible to imagine now, but there was a time not long ago when Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell were angry with Donald Trump. It was ...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 18, 2021
President Joe Biden’s Republican critics charge that he has foisted a “bait and switch” on voters — that he campaigned as a moderate but veered abrupt...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 14, 2021
There’s a word to describe political movements that emphasize ethnic, racial and religious solidarity over citizenship and pluralistic values, but it ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 24, 2021
Last week, two of the Trumpiest Republicans in the House of Representatives, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona, said they we...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 24, 2020
House Democratic leaders are trying to keep the espionage scandal surrounding Intelligence Committee member Rep. Eric Swalwell under tight control. Bu...
PA State News
June 15, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
PA State News
June 14, 2025
PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
Local News, Nation & World
June 14, 2025
Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
June 14, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
Local Sports, Sports
June 14, 2025
(TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
