Obama's re-election than Chrysler's "It's Halftime in America" Super Bowl spot featuring Clint Eastwood. There is every reason to believe that the pro-Obama theme was...

There's little doubt how Syria's autocratic government manages to endure in a region remade by the Arab Spring push for change. Its brutal leader, Bashar Assad, leans on Russia and China to...

I have no sympathy for Robert Jones and others who are fighting red-light cameras ("Steep fines spur anger at cameras," Feb. 5). As a pedestrian, I must be constantly vigilant when...

Oakland police form a perimiter on Broadway and 23rd and begin making arrests of protesters with Occupy Oakland as they continued their march into the evening through the streets of downtown in...

Allegheny County fire marshals will spend part of today attempting to figure out what started the fire that destroyed the popular North Versailles restaurant, the Winchester Room. North Versailles...

After riding among a caravan of bright blue bikes up Oakland's O'Hara Street Thursday, University of Pittsburgh senior Micah Toll said he wasn't surprised by the attention from...

The sharks were circling the Duquesne Club Thursday evening for the 24th annual Cummerbund Society Pool Tournament. The black-tie event raises money for Magee Womens Hospital's Neo-natal Care...

Pittsburgh, which owes its existence to its beginnings as a frontier garrison town, has always had a close, historic relationship with the military. In great numbers, men and women from Western...

The dangers of lead-based paint have been well-established for more than 30 years. The knowledge that even low-level exposures to lead can affect mental capacity led the United States to ban the use...

All he is saying is give peace a chance. No, not John Lennon -- Fredrik Heffermehl, a Norwegian jurist and critic of the Nobel Peace Prize selection process. It could mean trouble for the committee,...

When a co-worker brought "Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master" to my attention last week, I was immediately intrigued. The letter purports to be from Jourdon Anderson, a runaway...

By Amir Mir ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has turned down a demand by United States Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to release a Pakistani physician who faces treason charges for helping the Central ...

PALO ALTO, California - United States President Barack Obama has contradicted both his defense secretary and head of intelligence by laying a small though significant speed bump ahead of the...

By Brian M Downing The United States has shifted its attention away from Iraq, Afghanistan and other parts of the world and firmly fixed it on Iran. Along with this has come a buildup of naval,...

By Samer Araabi WASHINGTON - Following a failed bid to pass a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for regime change in Syria, Washington is considering other means to influence...

By Mathieu Duchatel and Bates Gill The dramatic rise in overseas travel and expatriate work by Chinese was punctuated by the recent kidnappings of Chinese workers in Sudan and Egypt....

Beijing finds vulnerable ally in Berlin By Jian Junbo LONDON - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's two-day visit to China last week came amid significant advances in cooperation, despite...

Kicking down the world's door By Tom Engelhardt Make no mistake: we're entering a new world of military planning. Admittedly, the latest proposed Pentagon budget manages to preserve...

By Vladimir Socor Confidence in the viability of the Nabucco gas pipeline project - at least in its version envisaged from 2004 to 2011 - seems to be fading all around. On January 25, the Nabucco...

By Cam McGrath CAIRO - The illegal trade in ivory continues in Egypt, with ivory products sold openly in local tourist markets by traders who operate with impunity and Chinese people the main ...

By Peter Morici Democrats rejoiced that unemployment fell to 8.3% and 247,000 new jobs were added in January, confirming to them that President Barack Obama will take them to victory in November....

1912 Belfast Braced for Riots
The city is likened today [Feb. 6] to a warehouse full of nitro-glycerine by its Lord Mayor (Mr. Robert J. McMordie), and to a ship laden with guncotton by Colonel...

Amherst, Mass.


LAST week, the defense contractor DynCorp International announced that it had changed its corporate policies to forbid discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or...

Beirut


ALMOST one year after anti-government protests began in Syria, a disaster of enormous moral and strategic proportions is fast approaching. Full-scale civil war is now likely. And a...

To the Editor:


"Facebook Is Using You," by Lori Andrews (Sunday Review, Feb. 5), offers a frightening overview of the use and misuse of data aggregation on the Web, but that hardly supports...

If you're among the fair-minded Americans who believe that two men or two women should be able to wed, there's an easy though slightly caloric way to express that. Get a caramel macchiato. Maybe make...

If Americans are barred from suing the government for misconduct in a war zone, there would be no way to hold officials accountable for even gross violations of constitutional rights in those...

Every once in a while, the Obama administration will promulgate a policy that is truly demoralizing. A willingness to end the District of Columbia school voucher program was one such case. The...

To the Editor:
Re "The Media's Abortion Blinders" (column, Feb. 5):
Ross Douthat obscures the fact that the recent Gallup poll on abortion finds that only 20 percent of Americans want...

To the Editor:
Re "Russia and China Block U. N. Action on Crisis in Syria" (front page, Feb. 5):
Now we know what the governments of Russia and China consider to be acceptable ways for a...

Two days after Russia and China vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a peaceful transfer of power in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad continued his killing spree.

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On Monday, Stephen Harper, the prime minister of Canada, traveled to China for a week of high-level meetings.  He brought with him a handful of his cabinet ministers, including Joe Oliver,...

The opinions, often expressed in tweets, came fast and furious after Twitter revealed its revised censorship policy late last month. Social-media users, who had just pushed back against...

As we enter the 2012 election season, should American Muslims be bracing for another round of Islamophobia? Certainly the 2010 elections were rife with attacks on American Muslims, seeking to deny...

In the most recent Gallup poll on abortion, as many Americans described themselves as prolife as called themselves pro-choice. A combined 58 percent of Americans stated that abortion should either...

Citizens United decision , and it doesn't work. Oh, yes, it works nicely for the wealthiest and most powerful people in the country, especially if they want to shroud their efforts to influence...

From the archive Profound changes to the global economy contributed to today's crisis and make it harder to resolve. Bergsten — director of the influential Peterson Institute for...

Police in Butler County said a bank robbery suspect surrendered today after officers from multiple agencies tracked his getaway car. Matthew Chestnut, 35, was awaiting arraignment tonight on charges...

A convicted sex offender from Wilkinsburg has been arrested on charges that he indecently assaulted a 10-year-old boy following a Christmas Eve party in White Oak. White Oak police chief Joe Hoffman...

Contributed by : Carol Gould Gaddafy is dead. There are calls for the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbasst ali al Megrahi to be returned to jail in Scotland (the irony is that he might be safer in Great...

**********************To the Manchester United Fans...I feel really bruised and battered. This is particularly hard because I am already disabled and walk with a stick. This week an article I penned...

line is quite another.The cookie sale is the Girl Scouts’ largest fundraiser, bringing in close to a billion dollars annually. This year, some girls will come equipped with credit-card scanners...

Mr. Obama claims, in fact, that the issue of fairness is the ';defining issue of our time.'; The president gives us a stark, if fallacious, choice:';No challenge is more urgent. No...

Frank J. Gaffney Jr. is president of the Center for Security Policy (SecureFreedom.org), a columnist for The Washington Times and host of Secure Freedom Radio, heard in Washington weeknights at 9...

Obama administration - everything from government officials taking simple bribes, to covering up wrongdoing, to using taxpayer money to pay off political supporters, to using government prosecutors...