Donald Trump’s Saturday night announcement that he’s going to nominate a new director of the FBI, the woefully unqualified and completely unfit Kash Patel, is premature by a few years because the director’s position is…

A September study in the Journal of the American Medical Association illustrates just how interconnected mental health and community truly are.  By cross-referencing survey results about emotional well-being from over 2,000 Allegheny County teenagers with…

Republicans boasting about their great election mandate may want to hold the euphoria. As the final results trickle in from the late state of California, the GOP looks set to have the narrowest House majority…

The pushback against cruise ships in the world’s top tourist destinations is nothing new.  More than three years ago, these vast vessels were barred from Venice’s lagoon on grounds of the risk they posed to…

Matt Gaetz on Thursday dropped out of consideration to be Donald Trump’s new Attorney General, and readers as far west as Topeka might have heard the whooshing noise, as Senate Republicans in Washington sighed in…

The week after he won the White House, Donald Trump announced his national security advisor.  It was 2016 and the pick was Mike Flynn, a man with an oddly pro-Russian worldview who only would last…

Allen County Commissioner Jerry Daniels asked for help Tuesday in keeping track of emergency management services. “We have a contract that increases every year. We’re purchasing vehicles and now we’re doing matching grants,” he said. …

In a fitting and just outcome, Infowars, the hateful tool of the odious Alex Jones, who profited from horrid lies about the murdered of children of the Sandy Hook school massacre, is now the property…

In choosing South Dakota’s John Thune as their new leader, Senate Republicans appear to have recognized a crucial truth: It is in their party’s interest to be led by a Donald Trump supporter but not…

Get ready to welcome back polio, measles and other preventable viruses if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the  next secretary of Health and Human Services. There are few government departments that have as direct a…