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HARRISBURG — A Pennsylvania Republican-majority county government where two commissioners secretly allowed a third party to copy voting-machine data l...

Politicians are motivated by many things, among them power, fame, idealism, greed — and fear. The last of these is not to be underestimated. It is a p...

Decades from now, when scholars are debating how the executive branch jumped the rails of any legislative accountability or rational rules, the new Bi...

In 1896, the body of a baby, wrapped in a bag, was fished out of London’s Thames river. An investigation led to the hanging of Amelia Dyer, a “baby fa...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — A couple of weeks ago, as I moderated a discussion at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House on the heated battle to ...

Communities across Pennsylvania struggle with an emergency of their own as they try to provide adequate emergency services amid rising demands, declin...

It might be easy to embrace recent warnings against a bellicose bipartisan consensus in Washington regarding China. But the real peril is that the tru...

If overly expensive health care in the United States could be summarized in a single headline, this one from The New York Times would be a good candid...

HARRISBURG — Drug rehabilitation centers across Pennsylvania can’t expand services due to regulatory barriers, but they also face another challenge: r...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — A former state lawmaker was forced to resign her position on a commonwealth board after taking a second state government job. Margu...

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s first state budget proposal perpetuates unsustainable spending and fails to address the most promising ideas he put forward during...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — In the brief but spectacular collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, we may just have witnessed the best banking crisis ever. It might eve...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — Five months after a dangerous situation at an Allentown child care center, the state of Pennsylvania finally has taken action to pro...

MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — The grief is still suffocating, the anger still visceral, President Joe Biden said Tuesday, in this suburban Los Angeles commu...

Los Angeles County, a bastion of left-wing politics, removed 1.2 million ineligible voters from its voter rolls in February — a move the Democrats fre...

Hostility to the First Amendment is a bipartisan endeavor. Too many elected officials take an oath to uphold the Constitution without having bothered ...

HARRISBURG — Lawyers for the districts that won a landmark school funding court case in Pennsylvania say that Gov. Josh Shapiro’s budget proposal fall...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Helping people who were raped and molested when they were children decades ago should have been the easiest task of the year for th...

HARRISBURG — State Sen. Cris Dush, R-Brookville, joined colleagues today in announcing Senate Republican principles and priorities for the 2023-24 leg...

ALLENTOWN (AP) — A man was arrested after an explosive was found in a bag checked onto a Florida-bound flight at an eastern Pennsylvania airport, fede...