Congress has designated September as Pain Awareness Month. The label is redundant. Americans don't need to be reminded how much pain they're in. And that's the political problem of the moment.Every...

As our economy meanders down the road to recovery, yet to hit its stride, the American dreamslides out of reach for too many. Nearly one in 10 Americans can't find work. If you consider those who...

U.S. government lowered its estimated rate of growth in the second quarter to an anemic 1.6 percent. The unemployment rate won't budge from its perch above 9 percent and may climb even higher....

Congress and looks unlikely to become law anytime soon.But Big Labor is not going gently into that good night. In fact, the shrinking membership rolls are making Big Labor organizations and their...

Labor Day 's parades and picnics, union bosses will bellow today about workers' rights and thealleged greed of management, especially inside Big Business. Such class-warfare sloganeering would be...

Congress is poised - perhaps as soon as this month - to pass legislation that would fuel even faster growth of monopoly unionism in state and local government employment, which is already five times...

When you get a whole country - as did ours - thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent...

Labor Day next year.That's just the beginning.While some consider American unions a dinosaur of a bygone era, they are far from extinct. Now instead of flexing their muscle on the picket lines, they...

Oftentimes, survival itself is an achievement. But in his first year as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Konijeti Rosaiah not only provided political stability in a State rocked by the Telangana...

Under cover of darkness, hundreds of armoured vehicles rumbled across the Iraqi border into Kuwait, marking the much-touted withdrawal of American combat forces. Dominant sections of the...

The accounts of murder, arson, and crimes against women sounded horribly familiar: Each detail, each grisly fact seemed taken out of a script enacted before; the sequence of events was as predictable...

There's a palpable mood of optimism among Britain's 2,00,000-strong Dalit community as it waits for the Government to take a decision on its long-standing campaign for caste discrimination to be...

Africa's first ever refugee social network was launched in Uganda on September 3 on a pilot basis where refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) will be able to trace their family or friends...

(AP) WASHINGTON (AP) - "It's still the economy, stupid."And there's virtually nothing Democrats can do to change that reality before Nov. 2.Time has all but run out for President Barack Obama and his...

A Baldwin Borough man today was ordered to trial on charges that he shoved another man, forcing him into a wall and causing fatal injuries. Garry Ethridge, 55, is charged with homicide in the July 9...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will campaign for Rep. Joe Sestak during a presidential swing through Pennsylvania on Sept. 20. The Sestak campaign confirmed this morning that Mr. Obama will...

The Wabash HOV Tunnel will reopen at 3 p.m., in time for the afternoon rush hour today. It has been closed much of the last few days due to computer-related...

Filmed with the IMAX 3D Cargo Bay Camera during the second spacewalk, astronaut Michael Good (on the Shuttle's remotes manipulator arm) assists astronaut Michael Massimino into foot restraints to...

Kids full of surprises on first day of school Memories will be made on Tuesday in Richmond, Va. It's the day my only granddaughter, Sophia, is entering kindergarten. Everyone is excited but her;...

This weekend, co-vocabularists are invited to submit excuses they have heard, or given, that seem too outlandish to be true (perhaps because they...

September 3, 2010 Once when I was 9, my Mennonite mother busted me for reading during a spectacularly dull sermon that looped around and around like one of those Hindenburg bees. I had smuggled in...

Geoff Nunberg says that pop singers such as The Beatles and Elvis Costello may have visited wordplay from time to time -- but country music lives...

(AP) KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The new top commander in Afghanistan is talking up a weapon that has been kept in the shadows for years - special operations missions to kill or capture key insurgents...

After concern that McKeesport could lose two of its businesses through eminent domain to make way for a $5.7 million fly-over ramp, city officials announced this morning that Eat'n Park and Rite Aid...

Steelers quarterback Byron Leftwich has a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee and he will miss two to four weeks with the injury, a source told the Post-Gazette today. Leftwich, the...

The Indiana County coroner today said he can not yet announce the identity of a body found in a barrel this week. Coroner Michael Baker said in a press release that specimens must be collected for...

A woman in front of the Saudi Arabia embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka, protests in support of Lahadapurage Daneris Ariyawathie who was tortured while working as a maid in Saudi...

Human Rights Watch’s work to curb atrocities perpetrated by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan rebel group, took a major step forward in May, when the Obama administration agreed to...

Arrests for things like writing poems unfortunately are regular occurrences in Jordan. It's about time Jordan got rid of laws that criminalize peaceful criticism of its...

A bill in Uganda threatens the rights of LGBT people and could push HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment underground. With HRW's Scott Long and voices from the ground in...

Mr. Niyaz 's "crime"? Giving an interview to foreign media after the July 2009 ethnic violence in Xinjiang - even though he maintained the government's line that the violence had been...

bleak report on the state of black male education. Only eight states graduate more than 70 percent of black non-Hispanic males from their high schools. Four states have a graduation rate between 60...

FOR ones whose live shows have been described as hideously shambolic, and whose career was marked by an impressive ability to implode in a drug-fuelled haze every time mainstream success beckoned,...

A South Side building on the site of a planned discount supermarket is being demolished this morning. The city's Historic Review Commission initially denied permission to demolish the building at...

HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. -- The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says a federal judge in Pittsburgh must hold a mental competency hearing for a man who has sought execution after failing to overturn a...

CONNEAUT LAKE, Pa. -- The sixth-oldest roller coaster in America has reopened for the holiday weekend at Conneaut Lake Park in Crawford County and has won $50,000 from Pepsi that will be used to...

The opinion article “China’s discreet hold on Pakistan’s northern borderlands” by Selig Harrison (Views, Aug. 27) discusses the development activities of the Peoples...

exploded Thursday morning. Fortunately, all thirteen members of the rig crew survived and were rescued successfully. But uncertainty remains over whether we're facing a second catastrophic oil spill...

A protester urges congress not to pass the March health care overhaul. Conservatives have touted health care as the issue that will hurt Democrats most in the midterm...

LA Weekly. Sharron Angle has no business being in the Senate, at least according to many of her fellow Nevada Republicans. The GOP mayor of Reno called Angle "wild" when he publicly endorsed her...

However, what is now one of the party's last flagship policies in the final year of its four year term in government stands a good chance of being blocked by opposition MSPs.Health Secretary Nicola...

However I was disappointed to see no mention of pupils studying the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma. This respected qualification is now on offer at four institutions in Scotland, three...

The war that began on a false pretense ended in ambiguity. President Obama declared this week that it was time for the United States to "turn the page" in Iraq. The combat mission is officially...

Muni operators seem to have lost their sense of direction. Consider their union's latest move: asking the California Public Employment Relations Board to stop Muni from restoring 61 percent of the...

If we told you that a poorly regulated energy facility killed thousands of birds this year, you could assume we were talking about BP's Deepwater Horizon platform in the Gulf of Mexico. But we also...

President Obama's ambitious effort to lift the nation's schools draws heavily from the playbook employed in Chicago and New York City: Test kids more often, open more charter schools and tie teacher...

A South Fayette teen accused of killing his mother at a resort in western India faced a juvenile justice board today in Jodhpur, where police asked the court for additional time to investigate before...

Every 12 hours last year young men boarded motorized skiffs and hijacked vessels on the waterway used by 24,000 ships around the Horn of Africa. Pirate gangs have accrued $150 million in ransom to...

The Black Sea is a cradle of civilization, trade and cultures, but today it is also a region of unresolved conflicts, porous borders and rivalries. Terrorism and insurgency are spreading across the...

The most famous dog in the world has passed away. Dick Stone, the grandson of Rodney Stone, is dead, a heart attack having proved fatal. Considered an even finer type than Champion Rodney Stone, this...