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Aleppo-Workers giving visitors a tour 900 feet down the Bailey coal mine that straddles Washington and Greene counties in Pennsylvania. (Salena Zito)

In Pennsylvania coal country, follow the climate money

Salena Zito · October 20, 2026 1:07 pm

Jake Loosararian, CEO of Gecko Robotics

Pittsburgh’s Gecko Robotics expands its Navy contract to $300 million

People wearing all black in Lyon, France, protest and peer at the arson of their own demise of a burning tourism office.

France on fire — a dangerous inflection point for the West

Abdul el Sayed.

Slick Abdul

President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin talk, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump has killed the American-led world order

Protesters face off against police firing tear gas outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles.

A bad week for the West against its green-red enemies

Hugo Gurdon March 31, 2026 12:57 pm

After the death of his elder half brother Lawrence, George Washington was closest to his third-youngest sibling, John Augustine, whom he called Jack. Washington's sibling helped manage Mount Vernon during the French and Indian War and the Revolution. His eldest son, Bushrod, would eventually inherit Mount Vernon. (Photo public domain.)

On This Day: Washington’s stoic mask drops in detailed correspondence with his brother

Salena Zito March 31, 2026 10:53 am

Dude gets baptized.

Faith among young people surges, providing a missing anchor

Salena Zito March 30, 2026 9:38 pm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks during a Senate luncheon press conference.

Will the insane shutdown ever end?

Byron York March 30, 2026 2:33 pm

Colonel Henry Knox leading the cannons out of Boston (photo courtesy of Mount Vernon).

On This Day: As Washington organizes his army’s next move, Henry Knox and Nathaniel Greene prove vital

Salena Zito March 30, 2026 10:23 am

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

What the CPAC straw poll says

Byron York March 29, 2026 11:22 am

Revolutionary War era painting depicting correspondence at the time (Photo courtesy of Mount Vernon).

On This Day: British fleet leaves Boston, destination unknown

Salena Zito March 27, 2026 12:45 pm

Ali Khamenei, right, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Tehran.

Are Chinese drone operators buried under the rubble in Iran?

Sean Durns March 27, 2026 8:00 am

Bluffton, Indiana, USA - August 21, 2021: The business district on Market Street

Capitalism, modified, in a conservative town

Timothy P. Carney March 27, 2026 5:47 am

Doug Burgum, secretary of the interior, from left, Marco Rubio, US secretary of state, President Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, US secretary of defense, Howard Lutnick, commerce secretary, and Markwayne Mullin, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, during a Cabinet meeting at the White House Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Will Oliver/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The signal and the noise

Dominic Green March 27, 2026 5:44 am

BIRMINGHAM, UNITED KINGDOM - MARCH 20: Worshippers take part in the Eid al-Fitr morning prayer to mark the first day of Eid in Small Heath Park on March 20, 2026 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. (Photo by Giannis Alexopoulos/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Let Muslims pray in public

Dan Hannan March 27, 2026 5:42 am

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 01: New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife Rama Duwaji after his ceremonial inauguration as mayor at City Hall Thursday January 1, 2026 in New York, NY. Mamdani has added a "block party" to the official inauguration events to allow thousands of New Yorkers to take part. Mamdani was officially sworn in at midnight by New York Attorney General Letitia James at the Old City Hall subway station in a private ceremony. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

Two wives, two media standards

Guy Benson March 27, 2026 5:40 am