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Whether you are in a casino or a courtroom or state house, stacking the deck is wrong. You don’t get to load up your hand with aces. You don’t get to put your best friends on your jury. And you aren’t supposed to carefully, surgically carve out a constituency that...

Some dislike President Trump’s abrasive style and long for the days of Mitt Romney and the Bushes, when Republican candidates respectfully faced unfair and relentless attacks from Democrats without fighting back. Over the past 60 years, Democrats have befuddled Republicans with aggressive tactics invented by Chicago activist Saul Alinsky in...

Did you know that if you are a member of the Ravelry knitting community and support President Trump and his administration, you are a white supremacist, a bigot and a racist? Ravelry is a popular worldwide community; did those in charge not realize that they are calling millions of conservatives...

Donald Trump says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a evil and a disgrace. A true pot calling the kettle black. Trump says he hates the word impeachment and calls it a “dirty, filthy word.” How does he think I, and many Americans, feel? We think Trump is the most evil,...

PORTERVILLE, Calif. — A Central California woman has been arrested on suspicion of killing her 12-year-old son and critically injuring her 7-year-old son who were found unresponsive in a ditch. The Tulare County Sheriff’s office said someone called 911 Saturday to report that 45-year-old Sherri Telnas was acting strangely and...

SEOUL, South Korea — President Trump said he’s looking forward to meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un at the Korean Demilitarized Zone later Sunday. Trump told reporters at a joint news conference with South Korean President Moon Jae-in that he and Kim will “just shake hands quickly and say...

OAKLAND, Calif. — A federal judge on Friday prohibited President Trump from tapping $2.5 billion in military funding to build high-priority segments of his prized border wall in California, Arizona and New Mexico. Judge Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. in Oakland acted in two lawsuits filed by California and by activists...

MEXICO CITY — Tens of thousands of people turned out for gay pride celebrations around the world on Saturday, including a boisterous party in Mexico and the first pride march in North Macedonia’s capital. Rainbow flags and umbrellas swayed and music pounded as the march along Mexico City’s Paseo de...

SAN FRANCISCO — The Trump administration has agreed to postpone implementing a rule allowing medical workers to decline performing abortions or other treatments on moral or religious grounds while the so-called “conscience” rule is challenged in a California court. The rule was supposed to take effect July 22, but the...

A chopped salad, where every ingredient is cut into pieces of about the same size, offers the perfect mixture of flavors and textures in every bite. However, some vegetables get watery and soggy when you chop and dress them, and require extra attention. In this summery salad, we first salted...

Carnegie police want to ensure they’re doing the best job they can. So they’re asking the people they serve to weigh in on how they did after a call. In June, Carnegie police Chief Jeffrey Kennedy began sending surveys each week to four people whom officers had assisted in an...

To apply some modern tricks to old-school chicken salad, we turned to our spice rack. Most spices boast an impressive portfolio of phytonutrients—often the very same compounds that give them such potent flavor. Mild, creamy chicken salad was an ideal canvas. First, we found we could replace two-thirds of the...

Question: We have two married daughters, one of whom is adopted. The biological daughter has two children who, we recently discovered, have been told that it is wrong to call our adopted daughter “aunt so-and-so” because she is not really family. Nor, according to our biological daughter and son-in-law, is...

Passport problems can elicit very real physical responses in travelers. On a blazing afternoon in Jakarta a few years ago, I realized I didn’t have enough pages in my passport to get to my next destination beyond Indonesia. I had one of those skin-crawling, heart-racing moments of terror. Reason went...

In her senior year at North Allegheny, all Rachel Martindale did was average nearly 14 points per game on the hardwood and hit nearly .480 on the softball diamond while helping the Tigers to the district title games in both sports. Not bad for two seasons that at one point...

Blackhawk graduate Brendan McKay didn’t disappoint in his major league debut Saturday. Given an audition with the Tampa Bay Rays, McKay took a perfect game into the sixth inning and wound up throwing six shutout innings, giving up only one hit and one walk while striking out three. He earned...

Home health aides provide valuable and compassionate home care services to seniors and adults with disabilities that enable them to remain safe at home and out of nursing homes. As a clinical manager who oversees a team of home health aides, I know our state is in a home care...

America has a big waste problem. In fact, the problem weighs approximately 280 million tons. That is the quantity of municipal solid waste (MSW) Americans create every year. As waste creation skyrockets, landfills across the country are nearing capacity, generating a waste crisis that crosses state lines. The U.S. produces...

Michael Zolnierczyk has been front and center in maintaining two of the Alle-Kiski Valley’s most enduring sports legacies: Springdale Dynamos soccer and basketball. The soccer program has won nine WPIAL titles and several runners-up. The basketball team has won mor than 1,100 games and has made 34 WPIAL playoff appearances....

Notices Outdoors RIFLE/TRAP LEAGUES There were 122 shooters who competed in the Twi-Night Trap League on Thursday, and seven managed perfect 25 straights. Ruffsdale finished in first place with a score of 193 targets. Connellsville (188), Hecla (188), East Huntingdon (186) and Youngwood (182) rounded out the scoring. Connellsville (72.5)...

We don’t have time for leaders to act like children. The people we have elected are there to do a job. We might not like the job they do, but that’s why we get to shuffle the deck periodically. What we didn’t do was send grown men and women to...

The Pittsburgh Penguins will need to shed serious salary to become significant players in the free-agent market, but regardless of what they do, there will be some fireworks around the league when the signing period opens at noon Monday. Here’s a quick overview. BIG TICKETS The Columbus duo of high-scoring...

I would like to see Congress pass a new program into law to replace the former Aid To Families With Dependent Children program, which was passed under FDR in 1935 and abolished in 1996. Since its abolition, there has been a large increase in the number of people (especially children)...

So now we have the Norwin School District raising taxes again due to a budget shortfall (“Norwin OKs tax hike; maintains staff, programs,” June 21, TribLIVE). It’s interesting how they have money to pay for soccer field and other sporting venue “upgrades” but find it necessary to jam it to...

As we prepare to celebrate the founding of our nation, we are in the grip of a narcissistic president who has spent two years successfully violating Amendment 1 and the Emolument Clause of our Constitution. He has joined other populist leaders in the Philippines, Turkey, Egypt, Poland, Hungary and others...