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HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s incumbent U.S. senator just isn’t ready to let go. Bob Casey Jr., denied a third term in Washington by voters exactly a we...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Democrats will return to the state House in January with a one-seat majority intact. This, after incumbent Rep. Frank Burns ...

Following a long and intense campaign season, Election Day is — finally — nearly here. In-person voters might be relieved Tuesday to at last make thei...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania’s legislative Republicans would like to pass additional voter ID requirements, restrict abortion and make election chan...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff, retired Marine Gen. John F. Kelly , broke a long silence and denounced his former...

Soon it will be Halloween — a time for trick or treat. And then less than a week later it is Nov. 5 — Election Day. And that is when one of the bigges...

HARRISBURG — Longtime homeowners in all but two of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties face the same problem: property tax bills that rise every year, often be...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Democrats think they can get closer to flipping the Pennsylvania Senate this year — with potential to tie the chamber for the first...

Another poll has come out showing the presidential race deadlocked here in Pennsylvania. The Emerson College Polling/RealClearPennsylvania survey show...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Vice-presidential candidates JD Vance, a Republican U.S. senator from Ohio, and Tim Walz, the Democratic governor of Minnesota, wil...

HARRISBURG — In the battleground of Bucks County on Wednesday, Republican Senate Candidate Dave McCormick focused on the rising cost of living. “Famil...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress on Wednesday passed a temporary measure that keeps government agencies funded into December, avoiding a shutdown for now wh...

(Editor’s note: The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) “All politics is loca...

ATLANTA (AP) — Trying to defend their narrow Senate majority with a challenging slate of contests on Republican-leaning turf, Democrats are pumping $2...

HARRISBURG — Recent polling averages show the gap closing in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race. Republican challenger Dave McCormick trails incumbent De...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — They got the wrong Philadelphia. In a breathless attempt to score political points in Pennsylvania’s increasingly combative U.S. Se...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Democratic U.S. Sen. John Fetterman has a reputation for being crass, and he channeled that energy Wednesday while taking shots at ...

More than 6 million Americans are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and each day nearly 3,000 patients may progress from mild to moderate dementia due to the...

NEW YORK (AP) — As Vice President Kamala Harris begins her fall campaign for the White House, she can look to history and hope for better luck than ot...

ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump is changing his tune on Georgia’s Republican governor after delivering a series of attacks at a rally just weeks ago. In a...