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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

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks at the Network of Iowa Christian Home Educators' state Capitol day event in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Obstructionism is patriotic

Michelle Malkin June 27, 2014 3:08 pm

President Obama wasn't just bluffing when he smugly declared, "I've got a pen, and I've got a phone." He was expressing his frustration with his political opponents' sometimes refusal to roll over to his dictates and his resolve to circumvent them every time he gets a chance. (AP Photo)

President Obama is not finished

David Limbaugh June 27, 2014 3:08 pm

Republican gubernatorial candidate winner Bob Beauprez defeated three other Republicans, including former Rep. Tom Tancredo, for the nod to challenge Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper in November. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

Facing tough odds, GOP had a good night in Colorado

David Harsanyi June 27, 2014 2:52 pm

House Speaker John Boehner has had enough of executive usurpation of power. He announced this week that he will ask the House of Representatives to file suit against President Obama for ignoring laws the president doesn't like and for using agency rule-making, executive orders, memoranda and even simple letters to accomplish that on which the president can't get Congress to act. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

John Boehner targets Obama over usurping powers

Linda Chavez June 27, 2014 2:50 pm

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, talks to the press at his weekly briefing on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 25, 2014. (Examiner/Graeme Jennings)

Supreme Court ruling on recess appointments bolsters John Boehner’s effort to sue President Obama

Philip Klein June 26, 2014 10:03 pm

A proposed Constitutional amendment would give Congress authority to regulate every dollar raised, and every dollar spent, by every federal campaign and candidate in the country.

Dems struggle to show anti-Koch amendment is ‘reasonable’

Byron York June 26, 2014 10:00 pm

U.S. paratroopers dash across clearing to helicopters that will lift them out of this section of jungle in War Zone C in Vietnam in March 1967 and drop them in another to continue their pursuit of the Viet Cong along the Cambodian border.

Iraq and the echoes of Vietnam

Steve Chapman June 26, 2014 3:06 pm

This Oct. 2008 file photo shows Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike. (AP Photo/Muhammad ud-Deen, File)

Who to kill? Obama’s drone policy is more about politics than law

Jed Babbin June 26, 2014 11:26 am

U.S. Rep. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., right, stands with his wife, Kris, left, as he gives his concession speech at his election night headquarters in Trexlertown, Pa., early Wednesday, April 28, 2004. (AP Photo/Chris Gardner)

Conservatives need to keep their eyes on the prize

David Freddoso June 25, 2014 9:27 pm

Currently 43 Democratic senators are so-sponsoring the constitutional amendment introduced by New Mexico's Sen. Tom Udall to amend the First Amendment so that it no longer protects political speech. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Liberals champion freedom of speech — except in politics

Michael Barone June 25, 2014 9:21 pm

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On climate change, who are the real ‘deniers’?

Cal Thomas June 25, 2014 8:35 pm

Dr. Ben Carson, professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference annual meeting in National Harbor, Md., Saturday, March 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Breakfast with a doctor offers insight into wider issues

R. Emmett Tyrrell June 25, 2014 7:30 pm