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The recent state budget approved by the General Assembly and sent to the governor would have achieved the goals of being balanced, keeping spending to...

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — If any hopes have been raised that the progress between the United States and Iran to halt Tehran’s development of nucle...

WASHINGTON — It came two days after the announcement of the nuclear agreement with Iran, yet little mention was made on July 16 of the 70th anniversar...

Pennsylvania’s woods provide us with numerous benefits — among them are a variety of recreational opportunities, clean water, and habitat for a wide r...

WASHINGTON — It is good to be President Barack Obama these days. In the midst of a visit to Africa, including Kenya, where Republican front-runner Don...

In his budget address, Governor Tom Wolf told Republicans and Democrats alike to bring him different ideas and he would listen. But, he also said that...

WASHINGTON — The latest controversy over Hillary Clinton’s emails — the allegation that classified information was improperly transmitted on her priva...

WASHINGTON — The most surprising revelation in recent presidential polling is not that Donald Trump has low favorability in key states — a welcome ind...

WASHINGTON — Current quibbling over what Jeb Bush meant when he said it’s time to phase out and replace Medicare — as opposed to “attacking the senior...

WASHINGTON — The more I read about comedian/sexual predator Bill Cosby’s behavior, the more I question President Obama’s my-hands-are-tied response to...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf holds a political science doctorate, but these days he’s a freshman with an incomplete in the first big test of his ad...

NEW YORK (AP) — Here we go again. One worry after another has hit the municipal bond market in recent years, from a high-profile 2010 prediction for a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Barack Obama returns to Africa this week, his major initiative to help the continent double access to electricity is in...

Pennsylvania was the crucible through which the Industrial Revolution was forged. Her rich coal reserves fueled the western Pennsylvania forges that p...

A white racist with strong sympathies for the Confederacy and segregation walks into a black church in Charleston, S.C., talks with a welcoming congre...

As Pennsylvania confronts its own energy tax issues, it’s important not to lose focus on potential threats from our federal representatives. The headl...

WASHINGTON — Do not worry about Donald Trump becoming president. Worry, instead, about what his current — emphasis on current — stratospheric standing...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump can’t help himself. Nor can we. The “worse” he gets, it seems, the better we like it. Watching Trump is so deliciously awful...

Some of the biggest struggles of the teen years for children are trying to fit in, while trying to maintain one’s individuality. Yet for so many child...

WASHINGTON — In the early days of the 2016 Republican campaign — an unusually important period, in which the viability of the GOP is being defended ag...