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Power transmission towers line a street in Redondo Beach, California.

Utility companies want to shift risks on struggling families

Todd Snitchler · July 22, 2026 9:00 am

Reenactors at Mount Vernon in 2019. (Photo courtesy of Mount Vernon.)

On This Day: Washington fears a ‘great deficiency’ in weapons

Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA).

Steelers, civic leaders, and Gov. Josh Shapiro break records and pull off flawless Day 1 of NFL Draft

"The embroidered Queenaas Crown badge and the Union Jack flag, the flag of the United Kingdom whom Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will have reigned over, along with the British Commonwealth, for 60 years from February 6th 1952 to February 2012."

When Charles III meets King Donald

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump kisses a "Women for Trump" placard during a rally at the Lakeland Linder Regional Airport in Lakeland, Florida on October 12, 2016. / AFP / Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump to corporate America: Kiss my a**, please

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner speaks during a news conference in Philadelphia.

Philly’s Soros-funded DA calls Trump a ‘fascist,’ grabs college student’s phone in unhinged rant

Christopher Tremoglie October 23, 2025 10:54 am

Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) meeting with workers at Eos Energy, a zinc battery manufacturer that announced it would expand its footprint in the Pittsburgh region and relocate its headquarters to the North Side.

Pennsylvania energy manufacturing jobs continue to grow with Eos expansion

Salena Zito October 23, 2025 9:57 am

Donald Trump.

Court shows why Trump is right about the National Guard

Byron York October 22, 2025 12:57 pm

Democrat Mikie Sherrill participates in the final debate in the New Jersey governor's race.

The trends in New Jersey and Virginia

Michael Barone October 22, 2025 11:09 am

Host of the Bear Grease podcast, part of the MeatEater podcast network, Clay Newcomb is a seventh-generation Arkansan and chronicler of rural American culture. Stories told around the campfire are deeply rooted in American culture and the folklore attached to them has been passed on for multiple generations. (courtesy Clay Newcomb)

American folklore is more than just scary stories; it carries a value system

Salena Zito October 21, 2025 5:46 pm

New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks on stage for the March on Wall Street, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025, in New York.

There’s left and further left, and then there’s Mamdani

Hugo Gurdon October 21, 2025 2:00 pm

New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

Zohran Mamdani’s terrorist friends of friends

Byron York October 20, 2025 5:10 pm

Health Insurance Claim Form form document.

Insurance subsidies are a costly fix to Obamacare’s leaky ship

Timothy P. Carney October 19, 2025 8:00 am

Reykjavik the capital city of Iceland above view from Perlan.

Now Trump destabilizes politics in the Nordic world

Dan Hannan October 17, 2025 4:10 am

Spirit and JetBlue planes at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. The US crackdown on airline consolidation faces a new test this week with the trial of a government lawsuit claiming the $3.8 billion takeover of Spirit Airlines Inc. by JetBlue Airways Corp. would reduce competition and boost fares for passengers. Photographer: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Biden’s antitrust crusade protected the big guys

Timothy P. Carney October 17, 2025 4:05 am

Pennsylvania Rep. Greg Rothman, R-Cumberland County, attends a hearing of the Pennsylvania State Senate Majority Policy Committee.

Pennsylvania GOP all in on No

Salena Zito October 16, 2025 7:05 pm

President Donald Trump announced Monday his plan to activate hundreds of National Guard troops and federalize the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department to address violent crime in the nation's capital.

DC attackers go free, showing limits of Trump crime crackdown

Byron York October 16, 2025 12:32 pm