Michael J. Gallagher was born in Scranton in 1898. He was born into an Irish family of coal miners and was destined to follow in their footsteps. From father to son, the skills and the grit were ...

JD Vance takes pride in declaring himself to be a “Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart” but a trawl of genealogy records has found no evidence linking the US vice-president to Ireland. In an attempt to ...

The Life of Rebel New York Attorney Paul O'Dwyer,” takes readers through the civil rights era, Northern Ireland.

President Donald Trump's first 100 days have been everything from "fantastic" to "horrific," according to Oakland County voters.

After more than a year in development, the Coal Mining Exhibit is set to open to the public at the Grove City Area Historical ...

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The move comes after public pressure from Capito, and follows a series of ABC News reports detailing the impact the firings would have on black lung health care programs for coal miners.

Two West Virginia coal miners with black lung disease testified before a federal judge on Wednesday during a hearing on the Trump administration’s decision to effectively shutter a program that ...

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the reinstatement of nearly 200 fired federal workers who screen coal miners for black lung, a deadly and incurable disease caused by inhaling toxic coal dust.

FARMINGTON, N.M. – President Trump recently signed an executive order to try and reinvigorate coal mining in the U.S.. The Four Corners Region is home to the third-largest coal producer in the ...

“You made this country.” President Trump surrounded himself with coal miners when he signed an executive order on April 8 declaring coal a critical mineral and calling for revitalization of an ...

but he's also doing away with NIOSH that helps the safety of the coal miners," Tennant said. The budget for NIOSH was about $363 million in 2023, the same year that job injuries and illnesses cost ...