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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

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., referred to Republicans as anarchists in a CNN interview. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Media parrots repeat Democratic shutdown spin

Larry Elder October 9, 2013 4:00 am

In the United Kingdom since the 1960s, voters have often given negative job ratings to the governments of the day. Yet incumbent parties have won most general elections. (AP File)

Voters to politicians: Both parties are blundering

Michael Barone October 9, 2013 4:00 am

USA Today columnist DeWayne Wickham wrote a piece titled "GOP plays politics with race."

No, it’s not always about race and racist Republicans

Gregory Kane October 9, 2013 4:00 am

A proposal to reconfigure 501(c)(4) advocacy groups could suffocate political speech. (Photo: Thinkstock)

IRS heist of premium subsidies could wreck Obamacare

Diana Furchtgott-Roth October 9, 2013 4:00 am

Federal Election Commission officials may take the nearly unprecedented step of exempting a Tea Party group from disclosing its donors due to concerns its supporters could face harassment and retaliation from government officials such as the Internal Revenue Service and private citizens. (Photo by Joshua Lott/Getty Images)

Conservative Tea Party pragmatists of the world, unite!

Philip Klein October 8, 2013 4:00 am

Obamacare created a 2.3 percent excise tax on the manufacture and import of medical devices. This tax doesn't really fall on patients, except in very indirect ways. (Thinkstock)

Ending medical device tax: A win for K Street, a loss for Tea Party

Timothy P. Carney October 8, 2013 4:00 am

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said he could bend the Democrats in the Senate to turn against Obamacare, which didn't happen. (AP/Daniel Sangjib Min)

Tea Party needs to grow up, quickly, before it’s too late for Republicans

Noemie Emery October 8, 2013 4:00 am

President Obama speaks about the government shutdown and debt ceiling during a visit to M. Luis Construction on Thursday in Rockville, Md.ÃÂ President Obama either came out strongly against Big Labor, a key part of his political base, or he committed a stunning political gaffe during his speech.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Maybe somebody should explain the right to strike to Obama

Sean Higgins October 8, 2013 12:00 am

Al-Shabaab is a repugnant and evil bunch, formally allied with al Qaeda, but the group's focus thus far has been regional: the creation of an Islamic state in Somalia, and, as an AS spokesman put it in 2010, "sending a message to every country who is willing to send troops to Somalia," like Uganda and Kenya. (AP File)

Obama opens another bloody front in the war on terror, Somalia

Gene Healy October 7, 2013 4:00 am

Obama is America’s commander in cheap

James Jay Carafano October 7, 2013 4:00 am

heard a memorable one this past May, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where the wonderful Julie Andrews stole the day and served up a message the grads and those watching won't forget. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images/File)

On quarterbacks, singers and responding to the trials of life

Hugh Hewitt October 7, 2013 4:00 am

Obamacare is prime example of government tyranny in action

Obamacare is prime example of government tyranny in action

Gregory Kane October 7, 2013 4:00 am