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Three weeks after the deadline, Pennsylvania still has not enacted its 2023-24 state budget. The budget bill was passed in both chambers of the state ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — We don’t know what specific charges special counsel Jack Smith will pursue if former President Donald Trump is indicted on allegati...

Do you love to draw, paint, color, or otherwise create art? Are you in kindergarten through 12th grade? Can you write one to two sentences about why y...

HARRISBURG — Counties in Pennsylvania are preparing to get by without payments for some of the social services they carry out as a state budget stalem...

There has been a highly political battle on Capitol Hill — actually, that’s the only kind of battle they have on Capitol Hill — over U.S. defense poli...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Glenn “GT” Thompson voted in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024. ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro talks a big game. He claims to be “competitive as hell,” and he campaigned for governor boasting that he “takes on big ...

SMETHPORT — Sen. Cris Dush, R-25, and Congressman Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-15, recently announced their upcoming Cameron County area satellite office ho...

Thursday, June 29, 2023, was a very good day for the Supreme Court and the U.S. Constitution. On that day the high court struck down “affirmative acti...

A new poll found that less than two-thirds of young adults in Pennsylvania feel national pride. The results from a recent survey — conducted by the Bu...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently released federa...

Four months after President Joe Biden nominated former California Labor Secretary Julie Su to serve as U.S. Labor Secretary, Su’s nomination remains s...

Permits. Licenses. Certificates. Catalogs. Deadlines. Pretty dull stuff. But the unsexy work of streamlining bureaucratic approvals, especially of con...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Spurred on by train derailments, some states with busy criss-crossing freight railroads are pursuing their own safety remedies rathe...

WASHINGTON — On Monday, U.S. Senators Bob Casey, D-Pa., and John Fetterman, D-Pa., announced that Pennsylvania is receiving $1,161,778,272 from the In...

Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, probably dodged a jail cell when he pleaded guilty this week to two tax charges. He also agreed to enter a p...

There are a lot of questions surrounding the federal indictment of former President Donald Trump, which alleges that after leaving the White House, Tr...

A “slap on the wrist,” is what House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer says of Hunter Biden’s plea deal over two misdemeanor counts of failing to ...

In the last three years, Republicans in two dozen states passed laws limiting voting in the name of preventing alleged voter fraud. At the same time, ...

WASHINGTON — Fatalities on Pennsylvania highways rose 13.2% in the first three months of 2023 over the same period last year, according to new federal...