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WASHINGTON (TNS) — More than 170,000 Pennsylvania residents have enrolled in the new federal student loan program that will limit payments to a percen...

NELSONVILLE, Ohio — Some 40 Native American tribes have ancestral ties to Wayne National Forest, a quarter-million acres spread across portions of App...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — When Elon Musk closed the $44 billion deal to buy Twitter on October 27, 2022, he walked into its San Francisco headquarters weari...

The people of the United States should be ashamed of themselves for allowing what is going on with Donald Trump to happen. To me the Democrats are sho...

Let’s say you hate Donald Trump and really, really, really don’t want him to become president of the United States again. How do you prevent that? Wel...

Pennsylvania has 2,560 local governments, besides 67 counties and 500 school districts. Each of those governments also has authorities, boards and com...

About 110 years ago, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote that “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants,” which certainly is true of go...

By design, including structure and funding, police are arms of the government. As such they are supposed to be subject to civilian control, but rarely...

One way government boards deny the public access to documents is by ignoring the provisions of the Freedom of Information Law, such as by significantl...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Canada has launched an ambitious program to recruit highly skilled immigrants from all over the world — including from the United S...

Pennsylvania Transportation Secretary Mike Carroll made an adept analogy recently when he compared the ongoing transition to electric vehicles to the ...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that race-conscious college admission programs are unconstitutional, two things were imm...

Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward, R-Westmoreland, made the right call in bringing members of the upper chamber back to Harrisburg so...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Our armed forces are shrinking in size and capacity. The current crisis in military recruiting qualifies as a direct threat to U.S....

As surely as water flows downhill, Pennsylvania will not meet its ambitious 2025 goals for water pollution reductions to boost the Chesapeake Bay’s re...

A Potter County Commissioner has been named to four leadership positions with the National Association of Counties, according to an announcement by NA...

WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania’s senators are lauding measures passed as part of the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, saying the bill i...

HARRISBURG — St. Marys attorney Christopher Martini has been publicly reprimanded by the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. The ...

WASHINGTON — Wednesday, U.S. Senators Bob Casey, D-Pa., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, announced passage of their bill to screen U.S. investments in nation...

WASHINGTON — Wednesday, U.S. Senator Bob Casey, D-Pa., and U.S. Congressman Chris Deluzio, D-Pa.-17, introduced a bipartisan concurrent resolution cal...