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Donald Trump is our first president to have both publicly acknowledged the international trading system has badly failed America and has the insight and courage to pursue corrective policies. The failed policies over the last 30 years or so have produced middle class economic decline driven by hollowing out communities...

High schools Baseball Tuesday’s results Class 6A Section 1 Butler 11, Central Catholic 5 Seneca Valley 4, North Allegheny 1 Section 2 Canon-McMillan 7, Hempfield 1 Mt. Lebanon 16, Woodland Hills 4 Class 5A Section 1 Franklin Regional 3, Armstrong 0 Penn-Trafford 17, Penn Hills 0 Plum 17, Kiski Area...

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 10-9) was shelled 16-4 by St. Paul (Twins). RHP Carson Fulmer (1-1, 4.82) gave up a first-inning grand slam and a two-run homer amongst his five total hits against. He yielded seven runs, walked five and struck out five in three innings to suffer the loss. RHP Colin...

Third-seeded Landon Harclerode and Tyler Quinn of Valley won a three-set semifinal Tuesday and will play for a WPIAL Class 2A doubles championship Wednesday afternoon at Bethel Park. Harclerode and Quinn defeated No.7 Gabe Nettleton and Michael Dubetsky of Indiana, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, and will face top-seeded Jonah Jasek and...

President Donald Trump said he had no intention of firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell despite his frustration with the central bank not moving more quickly to slash interest rates. “Never did,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday. “The press runs away with things. No, I have no intention of firing...

Pittsburgh’s Democratic candidates for mayor will meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. for a live, hourlong debate at WTAE’s studio ahead of the May 20 primary. WTAE anchor Shannon Perrine will moderate the debate between Mayor Ed Gainey and Allegheny County Controller Corey O’Connor. Gainey and O’Connor will field questions from...

Penn State is looking in the spring transfer portal for wide receiver help. As athletic director Pat Kraft bluntly predicted a couple months ago, that’s not a secret. Penn State reportedly hosted Syracuse wideout Trebor Pena over the weekend. James Franklin and his staff are pursuing other receiving options, as...

Tax season just came and went, but one Pennsylvania congressman appears worried that thousands of commonwealth residents may have overpaid. Republican Pennsylvania Congressman Mike Kelly, chairman of the House of Representatives’ tax subcommittee, has been sounding the alarm about the IRS’s new Direct File program, a government-run tax filing tool....

An Essex County, New Jersey, man is accused of driving a school bus while intoxicated with 25 juveniles on board and crashing into a median along Interstate 80. Pierre R. Tranquilus, 47, of the 100 block of South Center Street in East Orange is charged with second-degree endangering the welfare...

Penn State is losing a linebacker to a Big Ten foe via the transfer portal. Ta’Mere Robinson, a redshirt sophomore linebacker with the Nittany Lions, is transferring to USC, according to a Tuesday report from on3. Robinson entered the spring portal when it opened last Monday. So far, he’s one...

Fox Chapel Area High School senior Luca Poli and junior Laila Golla were named 2024-2025 High School All-American Strength and Conditioning Athletes of the Year by the National Strength and Conditioning Association. The honor recognizes high school athletes whose accomplishments reflect their dedication to strength and conditioning. The athletes are...

Pennsylvanians might be more politically divided than ever before, but there’s one thing they can all agree on: the rent is too darn high. In the commonwealth, rents are expected to jump by more than 6% in 2025, well above the national average of 4.8%. This lack of affordability has...

Embark on a visual journey around the Western Pennsylvania region with TribLive’s latest collection of captivating images for Tuesday, April 22, 2025. From the rustic landscapes of Western Pa. to diverse corners of the globe, experience the shared moments of humanity....

The writer of the letter “Wian right pick for register of wills” (April 11, TribLive) insinuates that Katie Pecarchik was complicit in political maneuvering by the court-appointed conservator, and/or was entangled in the office’s troubled history. In actuality, Pecarchik cleaned up the years-long backlog left by Sherry Hamilton. Does the...

Bethel Park High School senior Sophia Iorio has been awarded Gannon University’s prestigious Presidential Scholarship, a four-year full-tuition award valued at nearly $170,000. Iorio, who plans to enroll in Gannon’s five-year physician assistant program, was among 75 students who competed for the scholarship. Eligible candidates were required to apply and...

The U.S. government is ending the leases of four Mine Safety and Health Administration offices in Pennsylvania and has plans to cut 200 jobs at the Pittsburgh Mining Research Division of OSHA (“Pa. mine safety, research offices targeted for closure as president touts coal,” April 8, TribLive). This drastic reduction...

Well, Liberation Day has come and gone. The good news is that we’re making a slow recovery, although people have lost possibly trillions in their individual retirement accounts. Hopefully these people will recover from the massive losses they incurred. The bad news is that President Trump instituted tariffs, and the...

Requiescat in pace. That is the Latin phrase abbreviated as R.I.P. on so many memorials. The common English use “rest in peace” does not do it justice. “Rest in peace” is a direction or an order. A more accurate translation is “May he rest in peace.” The simple addition of...

The correctional officers’ life expectancy at the Allegheny County Jail is 61 years of age, 16 years below the life expectancy of the average American. Experts agree that a critical difference in what makes this expectancy so low is the constant exposure to the possibility of physically intervening in a...

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Regarding the article, “Faced with a perfect storm, small local colleges try to navigate the future” (April 13, TribLive): the “Skyrocketing Tuitions” chart and other publicly available data shows the extent of how much college tuition costs have increased relative to other economic indicators since 1980. The chart shows that,...

WASHINGTON — A Republican proposal to impose a tax hike on millionaires offers to generate about $400 billion over a decade, according to two new estimates provided to Bloomberg News, providing fresh revenue to partially offset the cost of the party’s multitrillion-dollar tax package. The Budget Lab at Yale projects...

High schools Baseball Monday’s results Class 5A Section 2 Peters Township 3, Upper St. Clair 1 Class A Section 2 Rochester at St. Joseph, ppd. City League Obama Academy at Westinghouse, ppd. Perry Traditional Academy at Carrick, ppd. Nonsection Fox Chapel 4, North Allegheny 1 Hundred (WV) at Mapletown, ppd....