politics of the united states

SCRANTON (TNS) — In November,Donald Trumpwon the presidency with 49.8 percent of the popular vote. That was up three percentage points from his 2020 l...

People around here are complaining about President Donald Trump's methods. Former President Joe Biden and his far left pals hurt us by opening the bor...

BEGINNING: At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Un...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., introduced a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to implement term limits in Con...

Public officials in 16 states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration Thursday to restore access to pandemic relief aid for schools...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania politics cast a stunning juxtaposition last weekend. On Thursday, the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference, a conservative pol...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity is seriously considering a run for governor in 2026, as the GOP race to challenge Gov. Josh Sh...

I’ve been a working GOP political consultant for more than 40 years. One of the most amazing stories in politics in that time is the way the GOP in Pe...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — “Don’t be a PANICAN,” President Donald Trump cautioned on social media. Critics have questioned the universal tariffs he unleashed ...

Shares of U.S. Steel are hitting a 52-week high after President Donald Trump ordered a new national security review of Nippon Steel's proposed bid to ...

For those of us who are calling balls and strikes on the Trump administration, the idea of creating a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to sl...

Believe it or not, the 2028 presidential election isn’t all that far off, especially in this modern era of political fundraising and positioning. On t...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — With President Donald Trump announcing a new round of tariffs that could spark a global trade war on Wednesday, at least one Republ...

David Fitz, leader of the group Bradford for Democracy, has organized a Hands Off rally to be held noon to 1 p.m. Saturday in Bradford. The rally, hel...

The DOGE-damners on Capitol Hill are going to hate Elon Musk’s latest target: Congressional wallets. Speaking at a town hall in Wisconsin Sunday night...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Donald Trump came into office with mandates to fix three big problems Joe Biden had failed to address: Out-of-control illegal immig...

PHOENIX (AP) — The Democratic base is angry. Not just at President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the “Make America Great Again” movement. Rank-and-file ...

MIAMI (AP) — In Hialeah, Florida, a city that's 95% Hispanic, only three residents showed up at a recent city council meeting to speak against a partn...

Virginia lawmaker Jackie Glass said she got a “safety brief” when she joined the Legislature. “I was told who not to go drink with, who not to be alon...

It’s scandalous, but hardly surprising, that high-level Trump officials discussed imminent missile strikes over a non-governmental messaging system. H...