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LOS ANGELES (AP) — When leaders gather this week in Los Angeles at the Summit of the Americas, the focus is likely to veer from common policy changes ...

Last week, in an unscripted moment, President Joe Biden warned bluntly that if China invades Taiwan, the United States will come to the island's defen...

We all know what happens when a tree falls in an empty forest. What happens when a democracy emerges unscathed from a purported vile racist threat to ...

From red-state capitals to Washington , Republican politicians are conceding what’s been obvious for decades: Their “pro-life” advocacy ends with a ch...

More than 4% of Pennsylvanians, about 550,000 people, are qualified by the state government to use marijuana to treat pain, anxiety disorders, epileps...

To hear the Biden administration talk, the war in Ukraine is nearly won — and the United States wants some of the credit for winning it. “Russia is fa...

The motto for Great Valley High School and its 1,400 students in the Pennsylvania borough of Malvern, about 25 miles west of Philadelphia, is “Creatin...

New York Democrats’ hyperpartisan gerrymandering violated the state Constitution, which voters amended eight years ago to establish a bipartisan redis...

The pandemic is almost over — we think. Not as a medical fact. COVID-19 will be around forever, just like the cold and the flu, but it no longer domin...

QUESTIONS: We enjoyed reading through the citizenship test and refreshing our knowledge of civics. There were a few things that we had forgotten. For ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvania’s health secretary will leave her post next week, just four months after taking the job, Gov. Tom Wolf’s office announ...

Much has changed since President Donald Trump invoked emergency powers to combat the spread of COVID-19. Immunity, whether natural or acquired through...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration has asked the state’s highest court to let the centerpiece of his plan to fight climate change take e...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Financial reviews of school systems released by the state auditor general’s office last month revealed fairly typical yet important...

The McKean County State Health Center has more COVID home test kits to distribute for free this week and next. The center, at 84-90 Boylston St., will...

William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” etched in the minds of people the world around the famous phrase, “What’s in a name? That which we call ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — House Republican lawmakers are calling on Gov. Tom Wolf to end the moratorium on natural gas drilling on state lands as part of a m...

Almost daily since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States and allies in Europe and Asia have been tightening the sanctions vise on Moscow. Ye...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Seven out of 10 Pennsylvania voters oppose eliminating the state licensing requirement to carry a concealed weapon, according to th...

The chairman of the Pennsylvania House committee on energy urges Gov. Tom Wolf to ban the importation of Russian-sourced energy and to end opposition ...