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The Congressional Budget Office projects that the federal government will have a budget deficit of $1.9 trillion this year, $400 billion more than was...

MILWAUKEE — Former President Donald Trump chose Sen. JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate on Monday, picking a onetime critic who became a loyal ally ...

This week’s Republican National Convention, which began Monday in Milwaukee, was always going to be all Trump, all the way. The former president and h...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The Biden administration on Wednesday took steps to close a loophole that allowed foreign steelmakers like China to dodge tariffs b...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — In the midst of trying to nail down an overdue state budget, Pennsylvania lawmakers passed a bill 10 years in the making, aimed at ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania lawmakers began grinding through a series of votes Thursday to finalize a budget deal that took nearly two weeks i...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Days after the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade in late June, Dave McCormick release...

The year was 1919. President Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat with another 16 months left in his second term, collapsed in Colorado during a speaking tour. ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — Republicans have adopted a platform , in advance of the party convention next week in Milwaukee, that might manage to be a s...

The Hazel Hurst Post Office, 309 Main St., will close its doors July 26 — hopefully temporarily. During the closure, residents will have to travel to ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — It took Joe Biden three campaigns and more than 30 years to win the presidency. It should come as no surprise that he’s resisting s...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — After what was described as a thorough search of the Pennsylvania Capitol building, authorities said they do not believe the threat...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity didn’t sit well at all with the current occupant of the office. “The Am...

As the nation’s most populous swing state, Pennsylvania was always going to be key to Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. It’s becoming clear that his re...

The IRS has appointed a new “taxpayer experience officer,” whose salary is paid by — who else? — taxpayers themselves. The agency hasn’t publicly anno...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (TNS) — For decade after decade in the United States of America, July 4, 1776, has been joyously celebrated as the date when America...

HARRISBURG — The state capitol fell quiet Wednesday after lawmakers left town for the Fourth of July, intent on hammering out a budget deal over the w...

One half of the Court of Common Pleas bench in McKean County is vacant with the recent retirement of Judge Christopher Hauser, and it could be 2025 be...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Perhaps on the Fourth of July, the Alitos flew the American flag properly, not upside down, at their Virginia or New Jersey homes. ...

After President Joe Biden’s abysmal performance in the first debate, Democrats and progressives are sweating bullets. They have been in denial for fou...