2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1083+ words) DALLAS — Vice President JD Vance took the stage Thursday on the second and final night of the Republicans’ midterm convention in Dallas, the party knowing that history is not on its side this election season but counting on President Donald…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (417+ words) Gov. Josh Shapiro talks with students as they unbox and prepare MacBook laptops during a visit to Gateway High School in Monroeville July 16 to highlight education investments included in the 2026-27 state budget. (Massoud Hossaini | TribLive) When “Joey” first entered my…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (372+ words) WASHINGTON — Seat belts and a flight attendant call button from the doomed United Airlines Flight 93. A purse filled with keys and a wallet recovered from the World Trade Center site. The telephone that sat on U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson’s…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (625+ words) Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America, a bipartisan campaign founded by philanthropists Olivia and Tom Walton, announced a $100 million pledge Thursday to make giving birth in the United States safer. The five-year commitment aims to cut the maternal mortality rate in…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (690+ words) The Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh. (Chris Pastrick | Tribune-Review) Most of the 15 Pennsylvania universities surveyed — including Carnegie Mellon, Duquesne and Pitt — received failing grades from a national nonprofit with a mission to defend free speech and thought....

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (528+ words) U.S. Sen. John Fetterman is facing intense criticism from former staffers and fellow Democrats — and the mounting pressure, much of it from anonymous sources, doesn’t figure to subside soon. The story also shared a text message exchange in which Fetterman was…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1192+ words) A scene from Sept. 20, 2001: A makeshift memorial near the site of the Flight 93 crash in Somerset County. (Sean Stipp | TribLive) Glenn Kashurba didn’t know the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 outside of Shanksville would change the course of his life....

6+ day, 52+ min ago   (628+ words) Sharpsburg Mayor Kayla Portis swears in Jon Andrascik to fill a council vacancy Aug. 27. (Michael DiVittorio | TribLive) Sharpsburg resident Jon Andrascik served on the borough’s parks and recreation commission for a little more than a year and volunteered as a…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (534+ words) WASHINGTON — An armed assailant lunged at the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, Amy Acton, on Sunday during a campaign stop at the Canfield Fair near Youngstown, injuring several people, campaign officials said. The suspect knocked volunteers to the ground and…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (321+ words) Work continues July 23 at the former Homer City Generating Station, where a data center is under construction. (Sean Stipp | TribLive) In 1975, I was a college student, spending my days sitting in classrooms, counting down the minutes until I could leave....