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PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The state Department of Environmental Protection’s first update to its environmental justice policy in nearly 20 years is drawing r...

The apparently pending Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade is an affront to women’s rights to biological self-determination and to all Ameri...

In the swirling days since what I suppose we should just call The Leak, a significant theme has been the argument that the Supreme Court has grown dee...

Justice Antonin Scalia was among the most prescient Supreme Court justices in American history, and the firestorm over the leak of Justice Samuel Alit...

Despite what you might have learned in high school civics, the Supreme Court really only has one role in our system of government — to uphold Roe v. W...

HARRISBURG — The remnants of a federal lawsuit by Republicans challenging Pennsylvania’s new congressional districts were dropped Tuesday, three weeks...

HARRISBURG — A federal lawsuit claims the Pennsylvania Supreme Court would overstep its authority by selecting a new set of congressional district map...

A revolution in university admissions appears to be at hand. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases on affirmative action in higher education,...

Two years into the pandemic, the Supreme Court has finally established that the government has to operate within its defined powers, even in times of ...

It’s been more than 50 years since the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. We’re within seven years of the centennial of his birth. Yet,...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania schoolchildren may soon be attending classes unmasked under a state Supreme Court ruling Friday that threw out the Wolf admi...

HARRISBURG — A lawyer for Pennsylvania’s acting health secretary on Wednesday defended the validity of the secretary’s order requiring masks inside K-...

HARRISBURG — Questions about the legality and practical effect of a victims’ rights amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution that has been in limbo ...

After President Joe Biden’s tragic spectacle of administrative incompetence, pundits said Afghanistan was going to be the chief issue in the midterm e...

Joe Biden may have humanitarian motives for extending the Centers for Disease Control eviction ban that the Supreme Court has already deemed unlawful....

On its face, it sounds like an idea society could get behind: Require that those accused or convicted of drunken driving be equipped with an at-home a...

In considering the conviction of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for second- and third-degree murder and manslaughter in the May 25 ki...

PITTSBURGH — Dr. Tony Gaskew, associate dean of academic affairs and professor of criminal justice at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, will t...

It was a thing of beauty: a light blue, shining sky, a magnificent hymn, a powerful benediction, poetry, patriotic music and a speech in which Preside...

In its effort to challenge vote counts in key states, the Trump campaign has filed lots of lawsuits that have little chance of winning. But there is o...