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PHILADELPHIA- U.S. Senator David McCormick hosted the inaugural Pennsylvania Red Tape Dialogues last week at Temple University in Philadelphia with the goal of bringing together C-suite executives, small business owners, policy experts, and federal/state regulators to identify and eliminate burdensome government regulations. (credit Sen. McCormick's office)

McCormick takes on Pennsylvania’s red tape, one binder at a time

Salena Zito · October 26, 2026 4:08 pm

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Another 2026 polling wrinkle

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md.

The logic behind Trump’s ‘pretend I’m on the ballot’ appeal

President Donald Trump touches his ear as he talks about the noise from the new ballroom construction before a Medal of Honor ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Monday, March 2, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

The closing economic pitch Republicans are too scared to make

Trump.

Trump and the MAGA enthusiasm strategy

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Abdul el Sayed’s chronic, brazen lying

Guy Benson October 23, 2026 5:45 am

Abdul el Sayed.

Is it too late to move the midterm needle in Michigan?

Byron York October 21, 2026 10:37 pm

Bucks County demonstrators.

The conservative who said yes to Bucks County, USA

Salena Zito October 21, 2026 4:18 pm

El Sayed and Rogers.

What’s ahead if the polls are right — or wrong

Michael Barone October 21, 2026 3:33 pm

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

Salena Zito October 20, 2026 6:30 am

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

Hugo Gurdon October 20, 2026 6:00 am

Abdul el Sayed.

Slick Abdul

Byron York October 19, 2026 4:45 pm

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

Dan Hannan October 17, 2026 8:05 am

President Donald Trump waves as he walks past presidential portraits along the Colonnade.

Inside Trump’s job approval crisis

Byron York October 16, 2026 2:02 pm

Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Abdul El-Sayed, talks to the media after a televised debate with Republican nominee for U.S. Senate Mike Rogers at WOOD-TV, on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, in Grand Rapids, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

El Sayed’s cure for high gas prices would make them worse

Guy Benson October 16, 2026 8:11 am

Hakeem Jeffries and Mike Johnson

What Pittsburgh can teach the next House majority

Salena Zito October 15, 2026 3:41 pm