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HARRISBURG (AP) — When Philadelphia’s election board prepared to count ballots last year that were mailed in without the voter’s handwritten date, Rep...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Despite the latest Franklin & Marshal Poll findings that show voters’ growing dissatisfaction with Pennsylvania’s election procedur...

For all the speculation that goes on around Donald Trump and the 2024 Republican presidential nomination race, it's possible, even likely, that the mo...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — When Josh Shapiro took the oath of office Tuesday on a trio of Bibles, he didn’t just become the leader of Pennsylvania governmen...

This column has written previously about the fundamental difference between Republicans and Democrats when it comes to the crisis on the U.S.-Mexico b...

George Santos is unbelievable. And that’s no exaggeration. Though folks routinely use the word “unbelievable” to refer to all sorts of things that are...

Josh Shapiro, at 49, is Pennsylvania’s first post-baby-boom governor. Less certain is whether that will translate into better state governance. Pennsy...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The special elections to fill two vacant seats in the Pennsylvania state House — the subject of a contentious fight between Democra...

Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives accomplished something that far longer eluded their federal counterparts: electing a leader for t...

Republicans looked like they were heading for a no-win debacle on the House floor in their fight over speaker. Instead, Kevin McCarthy got over the to...

As another Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday approaches, our nation has much to celebrate as we strive toward MLK’s dream of a colorblind society. Si...

The drama is over. WithRepublicansfinally installing Rep.Kevin McCarthyofCaliforniaas speaker of theHouse of Representatives, that body can get going ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — U.S. Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson is among 62 House Republicans pushing legislation that would ban abortions when a fetal heartbeat is ...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania's state Senate voted Wednesday to postpone a trial seeking to remove Philadelphia’s progressive district attorney on the hee...

HARRISBURG — Republicans who control Pennsylvania's Senate on Wednesday kicked off the new legislative session by pushing through a trio of proposed c...

HARRISBURG — A week after he was a surprise choice to become speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Democratic state Rep. Mark Rozzi ca...

Congressional Democrats last year showered the IRS with $80 billion in new funding in an effort to close an estimated $600 billion “tax gap,” the diff...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Rep. Kevin McCarthy won his 15th bid to become speaker of the House, but only at great cost. To win the votes he needed to secure t...

Not all conspiracy theories are created equal. The same people who pride themselves on rigorously insisting on the facts — ideally, explained in the d...

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