politics

Did you hear a roar from Lewis Run Wednesday night? It was a standing ovation and loud cheers for Judge John Cleland’s wonderful speech to 250-plus pe...

LEWIS RUN — In his long and distinguished career on the bench, retired McKean County Judge John M. Cleland, in his words, “absolutely avoided politics...

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — On a table at the office of the Waukegan Township Democrats sits a box of postcards with Wisconsin addresses that were collected...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The American political system works. Of course it works. That’s what a system — a thing that once set up keeps running — does. But ...

As we enter the stretch run of the 2024 presidential election, all eyes will be on Pennsylvania, the most critical swing state on the electoral map. D...

NEW YORK (AP) — Kamala Harris wanted to help voters get to know her better with a cascade of media appearances Tuesday, but the most lasting impressio...

If Kamala Harris wins the election this will be Barack Obama’s fourth term of ruling and running our nation. He had two terms of his own and one with ...

The Biden-Harris administration is set to eclipse the $1 trillion mark in improper payments, a new record for wasted money in a four-year term, accord...

Americans are like members of a quarrelsome family, so intent on arguing their petty grievances around the kitchen table that they don’t smell the ris...

The Democratic National Convention featured two themes of interest to working seniors: choice is an essential function of freedom, and every person sh...

WARREN — The USDA Forest Service announced that Allegheny National Forest officials are extending the public outreach period to fill committee member ...

(Editor’s note: The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) As the presidential e...

BALTIMORE (TNS) — The theme of this election, the Democrats tell us, is to be freedom, as the theme of the 2022 election was said to be democracy. Dem...

BERKELEY, Calif. (TNS) — What role, if any, will the Supreme Court play in the November presidential election? That is the crucial, unknowable questio...

A Republican-backed slate of bills focused on workplace discrimination protections in Pennsylvania will likely expire this year without action. Even t...

If you are in the ID/A community — a person with a disability, a family member or an advocate on behalf of someone with intellectual disabilities or a...

Dr. Tracee Howell, associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, will report Wednesday on the 900-page Project 2025, noting: “It’s ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris pledged ongoing federal support and praised the “heroes among us” as she visited ...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Weeks after former President Donald Trump told Pennsylvania farmers he would levy a 200% tax on John Deere tractors imported from M...

SOMERSET (TNS) — JD Vance’s rural working-class upbringing, as chronicled in his bestseller ‘Hillbilly Elegy’, fits right in with the lived experience...