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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court delivered a victory to abortion-rights advocates in directing a lower court to consider a challenge to the state’s 1982...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. Bob Casey (D-PA), chairman of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), chairwoman of the U.S. Sen...

Perhaps the most head-spinning statement of the Biden years came about a week ago when President Joe Biden endorsed an impending Senate immigration de...

HARRISBURG — Gov. Josh Shapiro’s budget may contain some laudable goals for rural Pennsylvania, but area legislators were put off by what they saw as ...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Gov. Josh Shapiro’s second budget proposes significant increases to education and economic development and would regulate adult use ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The changes railroads announced after last year’s fiery crash in East Palestine, Ohio, haven’t yet made a major difference, statist...

Computers, cellphones, online multiplayer games, social media — how does a parent keep a child safe from potential predators they can’t see? The Child...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Western Pennsylvania’s Republican lawmakers are trying to quash the confirmation of the first Muslim American nominated to the fede...

HARRISBURG — In the last two years, tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians have fled the state. This trend is not new. For 12 of the past 13 years, more ...

(TNS) — Pennsylvanians overwhelmingly think video gaming machines should be taxed and not banned, an annual fee should be imposed on electric vehicle ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The Biden administration on Thursday began the first-ever negotiations over the price of 10 drugs in an effort to lower Medicare co...

Pennsylvania’s legislators get annual raises tied to the Consumer Price Index, but minimum wage in the state has been frozen at $7.25 per hour since 2...

What do you call it when somewhere between 6 and 8 million people enter the United States illegally in the course of three years? Many people would ca...

Pennsylvania has some of the most restrictive open records laws in America, needlessly slowing or stopping the public from accessing documents and inf...

(TNS) — Abortion-rights advocates on Monday applauded a Pennsylvania Supreme Court reproductive rights decision as a step in removing barriers to abor...

Lawmakers in more than a half-dozen U.S. states are pushing laws to define antisemitism, triggering debates about free speech and bringing complicated...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Whether working full time for themselves or part time as contractors, picking up occasional gig work, or having a side hustle, an e...

The Environmental Protection Agency isn’t traditionally associated with ranged weaponry, but the federal government has spent almost $620,000 since 20...

As a member of the Pennsylvania State Legislature’s Women’s Health Caucus, I know that when you educate women, health outcomes improve for the whole c...

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