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Disabled veterans in Pennsylvania no longer have to claim their monthly benefits as income when applying for state aid programs. Gov. Josh Shapiro sig...

Two years ago, in overturning Roe v. Wade, the United States Supreme Court declared that it was for each state to decide just how many rights women ou...

HARRISBURG — From education to housing to economic growth, Republican legislators return to the local and state tax burden as the issue holding back p...

CIVICS: What is the supreme law of the land? What is the study of the duties and rights of citizens? Do you know the answers? These are some of the sa...

Mike Pence’s failed presidential campaign amassed over $1.3 million in debt, and now he’s forcing taxpayers to help foot the bill.{/div} The Federal E...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The debate over school vouchers, which held up last year’s state budget, is back. And this year’s disagreement, with input from Pen...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson voted in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2025. Commenting on it Friday mo...

HARRISBURG — The Department of Environmental Protection issues hundreds of different permits – 800 to be exact, according to a recent analysis. But le...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — An unanticipated last-minute surge in college students applying for financial aid has created a dilemma for Pennsylvania’s student ...

HARRISBURG — Gov. Josh Shapiro has proposed another $30 million to boost fire companies and emergency medical services, but legislators are concerned ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spent nearly $1.8 billion more than was allocated in its annual budgets between 2014 and 2023, according to a...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — News of Donald Trump’s conviction had barely hit the television screens and the internet sites when Sen. Marco Rubio took to social...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is headed into its final few weeks with over a third of the cases heard this year still undecided, including ones ...

HARRISBURG (AP) — A Democratic-sponsored proposal to boost public school funding by billions in the coming years and impose stricter rules on cyber-ch...

SMETHPORT — The murder trial for Frederick “Ricky” Camejo, accused of gunning down a man in front of his Congress Street home in 2022, has been set fo...

WILMINGTON, Del. — Hunter Biden was convicted Tuesday of all three felony charges related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018 when, prosecutors argu...

The Biden budget deficit this fiscal year probably will exceed $1.6 trillion. This from a president who has repeatedly tried to pass himself off as a ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — GOP 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump is all of a sudden something more than a past president. He is a convicted felon, bran...

In 2010, the Supreme Court issued its Citizens United decision, leading to an explosion in political spending and the rise of dark money groups thatex...