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HARRISBURG — With concerns mounting that Pennsylvanians will face skyrocketing utility costs in the coming months and years, state lawmakers are tryin...

HARRISBURG — Three bills to stop waste, fraud, and abuse in Pennsylvania’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Medical Assistance program we...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — President Trump has begun his second term pressing his power to reshape the government by firing federal officials, ending diversit...

The Department of Defense purchased lobster tails, footrests and more during a September 2024 spending spree that saw $79.1 billion spent on grants an...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Republicans put Pennsylvania and Wisconsin back in the win column in the 2024 presidential race, and they're hoping that momentum ca...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — At least 12 times in 2021 and early 2022, Pennsylvanians heard about a different Republican who wanted to be governor, among them t...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Se. John Fetterman, D-Pa., applauded the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for publishing a rule that will end a decades-lo...

DETROIT (TNS) — With a few exceptions, I agree with the objectives of nearly all of the executive orders President Donald Trump has signed during his ...

HARRISBURG — New polling from the Commonwealth Foundation, a think tank that promotes fiscal conservancy, shows bipartisan support for policies they s...

During his first term, Donald Trump pledged to kill two federal regulations for each new one imposed. In the spirit of the president’s hyperbolic mann...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Shortly after his swearing in, President Donald Trump reinstated his ban on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the federal go...

Roy Cohn, the mafia lawyer who nurtured Donald Trump’s contempt for the rule of law, once infamously stated, “Don’t tell me the law, tell me who the j...

Maybe you’re mad about President Joe Biden’s parting gift of a preemptive pardons for Dr. Anthony Fauci and members of the Biden family. If not, you’r...

Hispanic voters in Pennsylvania were not just consequential but decisive in 2024, shifting by double digits toward Republicans and showing up at highe...

(TNS) — President Donald Trump issued several orders to dramatically toughen immigration standards and enforcement within hours of taking office on Mo...

(TNS) — Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., shot down rumors he plans to jump to the Republican Party after meeting with President Donald Trump. "It's not goi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president Monday, returning to power with a promise to end America’s decline and to “completel...

TheSenatebegan the show hearings for Donald Trump’s presidentialCabinetnominees last week. ManyDemocratsdid not distinguish themselves. The most conte...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — After his visit with just-about-to-be president Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago, many members of Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman's base...

HARRISBURG (AP) — When Democrat John Fetterman got elected to Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate seat, many backers hoped he'd challenge convention and the st...