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WASHINGTON (TNS) — The television split screen told the story. On one side, Republicans in the House of Representatives labored through the fourth of ...

As Republican infighting debilitates Washington, lawmakers at some U.S. statehouses have managed to launch sessions complicated by similar GOP partisa...

It’s another New Year and time for a round of predictions — whether they turn out right will be up to history to decide. Russia’s former president Dmi...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvania House Democrats’ claim that they hold the majority in the 203-member chamber in an ongoing power struggle has been rej...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Rep. Bryan Cutler, current Speaker of the Pennsylvania House, will continue to lead the state House Republican caucus into the new ...

Kevin McCarthy may now have the hardest job in Washington. Assuming that he becomes speaker of the House, which will require the near-unanimous suppor...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Facing a dramatically different political landscape than Republicans had expected, with the possibility of Democrats in control of ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Republicans in Pennsylvania got some good news Monday in their surprisingly shaky quest to maintain a majority in the state House o...

The polls won’t close for more than a week, but there already is plenty of spin casting blame and taking credit for midterm wins and losses. Yet as mi...

Democrats have been looking for a political lifeline and believe that the Dobbs case overturning Roe v. Wade is it. The problem is that their radicali...

Many conservative state legislators cheered Friday when the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion that an earlier court h...

Think about it this way: There is no army or police department in any halfway civilized country — not even the United States — that would allow an unt...

America faces a serious economic and national security risk when it comes to the development and manufacturing of semiconductor chips that are integra...

HARRISBURG — All seven Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices issued opinions Wednesday regarding their 4-3 vote last month to pick a new map of the stat...

Editor's note: Thisarticle is corrected to note that Rep. Glenn Thompson will seek his eighth term in Congress. U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson said Wednesda...

Republicans who have controlled the state Legislature for all but four of the past 27 years have been able to do so partly because of gerrymandering. ...

Proclaiming himself “tired of being quiet,” President Biden Tuesday proposed retiring the filibuster — the 60-vote threshold for getting almost anythi...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — As Pennsylvania is expected to loom large in upcoming midterm elections, its residents who voted in the 2020 election are still shar...

Sen. Joe Manchin’s announcement that he will not support the Democrats’ giant spending bill should not have been a surprise to anyone who has been wat...

One theme of Democratic control of Washington has been frustration, especially among the party’s progressive wing and its cheerleaders in the media, t...