politics

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., chairman of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, announced a new Biden Administration proposed rule th...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — "There were a lot of very sick people tonight," said theEmergency Departmentnurse, explaining why my friend had to wait six hours t...

CIVICS: We’ve featured some of this before, but we saw The Washington Post had run a story asking if readers knew more civics than an eighth grader. S...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Thwarted by the U.S. International Trade Commission in its push to boost tariffs on 14 countries — even after the Commerce Depart...

NEW YORK (TNS) — In announcing the nomination ofLinda McMahon, a former professional wrestling executive, to his cabinet, President-electDonald Trumpp...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The House task force investigating a pair of assassination attempts on President-elect Donald Trump is poised to hold its final hea...

Democratsroutinely complain that Republican gerrymandering is a threat to the republic. Not surprisingly, they’ve been noticeably silent about how it ...

Prominent Democrats spent the run-up to the November election professing their desire to protect “democracy.” Court documents reveal that was a cynica...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (TNS) — If the Democratic Party wants to win future elections outside of deep blue areas, they might just need to take inspiration from...

HARRISBURG — The Amish vote received significant attention throughout the 2024 election cycle as Republican activists worked to mobilize the tradition...

In what representatives called “a powerful demonstration of dialogue and connection,” the McKean County Collaborative Board hosted its Annual Meeting ...

Money can’t buy happiness or a presidential election. Democratic donors just learned that the hard way. After a candidate loses a high-profile, compet...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — New and bleak numbers from the state Independent Fiscal Office could harden partisan views on Pennsylvania's long-term financial he...

NEW YORK (TNS) — President-elect Donald Trump’s economic legacy may well depend on whether he prefers the comparative form of an adjective. Specifical...

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman's political career has always been a high-wire act. The 6-8 senator, who survived a near-fatal stroke during his 2022 campaig...

Under President Joe Biden, the Department of Health and Human Services has created a “diversity, equity and inclusion” infrastructure of dizzying comp...

Gov. Josh Shapiro was almost selected as Kamala Harris’s running mate, and he wants to be president more than Phillies fans want to win the World Seri...

American missiles — by way of the Ukrainian army — are now being launched atRussia. Putin, in response, is rattling his nuclear saber. If you haven't ...

The Keystone State was expected to be the bellwether on Nov. 5, and it didn’t disappoint. Not only did Donald Trump carry Pennsylvania by two points —...

As Joe Biden’s presidency enters its last weeks, officials are rushing “to preserve at least some of the outgoing president’s legacy,” The Associated ...