For his first public event since announcing his candidacy last Thursday, Biden chose Pennsylvania, the state where he was born 76 years ago
The assault on the 150-year-old congregation was the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in recent US history
Federal officials said 46-year-old Robert Bowers faces 29 separate federal charges, several of them carrying the death penalty
Police and anti-capitalist protesters clashed at the University of Pittsburgh campus on Friday evening, hours after the G20 summit ended.
Protesters smashed shop windows and threw rocks at police on Thursday as police used pepper gas and batons to disperse marches against capitalism.
Leaders of the world’s biggest rich and developing countries meet on Thursday to seek ways to nurture the economic recovery.
US President Barack Obama said on Sunday he would push leaders this week for a reshaping of the global economy in response to the financial crisis.
United States President Barack Obama will show Pittsburgh to world leaders this week as a ”bold example” of a new green economy.
<i>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</i> starts members’ club offering readers extra content, access to journalists and special events.
United States Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama spent a fourth day on Monday defending himself for calling people in small towns with economic blight ”bitter” in a…
United States Senator Robert Casey of Pennsylvania on Friday endorsed Barack Obama’s campaign for the Democratic nomination for president in a boost for the Illinois senator.…
An unusual international alliance of private companies and governments is slated to choose a site in the United States for the world’s cleanest coal-fuelled power plant, called…
A pizzeria is vying for a spot in Guinness World Records for the world’s largest commercially available pizza. The , 150-slice pizza isn’t a one-time deal. In fact, the Big One…
Distinguishing fine wine from plonk is usually left to connoisseurs and winemakers, who rely on their senses, rough chemical measurements and the whims of nature to produce an…
He may have survived two world wars and prohibition. But a trip to the zoo proved too much for a 10kg lobster named Bubba. The leviathan of a lobster died on Wednesday afternoon…
Growing up in an untidy home can mess up a child’s mind, according to a new American study. Researchers from Pennsylvania State University studied data from about 8 000 three-…
Alcoa, the world’s largest aluminium maker, is asking federal authorities to stop alleged dumping of aluminium by a South African company. Pittsburgh-based Alcoa petitioned the…
