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The injunction keeping Aliquippa in Class 4A football remains in place after a Commonwealth Court judge denied a PIAA request for a stay. Appellate Ju...

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 ...

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...

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...

The U.S. Supreme Court ended its term Monday with a highly anticipated decision that provides American presidents with a modicum of immunity from crim...

HARRISBURG (AP) — A western Pennsylvania county’s elected commissioners were sued Monday over a policy adopted for this year’s primary in which people...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday kept on hold efforts by Texas and Florida to limit how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social med...

The Supreme Court is releasing decisions in a handful of remaining cases into early July. In the meantime, the justices have struck a blow for freedom...

In 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Miranda vs. Arizona that criminal defendants were entitled to say nothing so as to not incriminate themselves...

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...

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...

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 ...

The response to the Donald Trump verdict was predictable, as partisans raced for their corners. But President Joe Biden’s comments were particularly t...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — A bill has passed in the Louisiana state legislature that would require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all schools and col...

In the mid-1950s, when Jim Crow laws reigned in Alabama, state attorney general John M. Patterson — later a Ku Klux Klan-supported governor — filed a ...