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Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will vote to create an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. There’s no doubt...

It always seemed unlikely that Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate Republican leader, would vote to convict the disgraced ex-president who, e...

As the U.S. Senate pressed through its final days of the second impeachment trial of America’s 45th president, Donald Trump, it is important that we r...

When foreign policy scholars list the best secretaries of state of the last half-century, the usual choices are Henry A. Kissinger, the brilliant but ...

Marcy Kaptur is the longest-serving woman in the current Congress. She has also been in the U.S. House of Representatives longer than any woman has se...

When Joe Biden arrived in the White House, he promised a new dawn of unity and bipartisanship. But when he began to pursue a COVID relief bill, he met...

After losing a national election, it’s natural that a political party goes through a period of soul-searching and internal turmoil. The Republican Par...

Many years ago, as a young foreign correspondent, I went to Beirut to cover the Lebanese civil war. On the wall of the newsroom where I worked, someon...

I’m going out on a limb here and saying that Republicans and Democrats have very different ideas of what “unity” means. The fact that President Joe Bi...

The announcement by two moderate Republican senators — Rob Portman of Ohio and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania — that they will not seek re-election is not...

It’s the new America and the exposed plot of the moment is to hold a Senate trial on removing Donald Trump from office when he is no longer in office....

ST. MARYS — The Elk County Democratic Committee will host its monthly meeting on Wednesday starting at 7:30 pm. Because of current COVID-19 concerns, ...

Joseph R. Biden Jr. arrived in the White House Wednesday thanks to two unappreciated assets: He is 78 years old, and he has been a politician for more...

President-elect Joe Biden plans to address a joint session of Congress in February to press for his aggressive $1.9 trillion pandemic relief proposal....

Raise your hand if you are exhausted from the incessant political turmoil that continues to unfold in the United States. While almost everyone is hopi...

Among the amazing scenes in our Capitol during the failed insurrection of Jan. 6, few were more remarkable than a brief speech by Sen. Kelly Loeffler,...

SAINT MARYS — The Elk County Republicans will hold their first meeting of 2021 at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Knights of Columbus of Saint Marys. The agenda...

The storming Wednesday of the U.S. Capitol by right-wing radicals, instigated by President Trump earlier in the day, should be a sad event for all Ame...

America seems deeply divided. The House of Representatives is split 222-213 between Democrats and Republicans, meaning just five seats need to flip to...

What happened in Harrisburg on Tuesday didn’t have to happen. The question of who exactly won the 45th District seat in the Pennsylvania Senate is not...