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HARRISBURG — A bill banning transgender athletes born male from competing in women’s sports cleared the Pennsylvania Senate with bipartisan support on...

HERSHEY — Nearly 4,000 people representing local governments across the state’s 1,546 townships gathered in Hershey this week for the Pennsylvania Sta...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On April 11, U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D‑Pa., joined a group of Democratic senators, including New York’s Chuck Schumer and Kirsten...

WASHINGTON Ahead of U.S. trade talks being held with Chinese officials this weekend, a new report highlights the U.S. states that are the most and lea...

Debates over entitlement programs bring out the worst in elected officials, who are typically more concerned with political survival than addressing d...

If the U.S. Department of Education suddenly went away, what would change for local families and communities? Not much. For starters, the Department o...

OLEAN, N.Y. — SUNY Jamestown Community College recently introduced a scholarship that will make a JCC education more affordable for Pennsylvania stude...

Our elected state and federal officials take an oath of office, many with their hand on a Bible. Common in these oaths is a venerated commitment to pr...

HARRISBURG — A 173-page bill that regulates adult-use cannabis in the commonwealth went from introduction to committee approval in less than 24 hours....

HARRISBURG — In the purple Keystone State, thousands of working people turned up to the Pennsylvania Farm Show complex on Friday to hear Vermont Sen. ...

President Donald Trump is spending taxpayer money 10% faster than Joe Biden was at this time last year, according to daily financial statements releas...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Between 2022 and 2024, the U.S. saw a record 43% rise in “sheltered homelessness” — staying in some sort of emergency shelter, as o...

DETROIT (TNS) — Americans knew exactly what they would get when they electedDonald Trumppresident last November. And now, to quote Mencken, they're ge...

The new Pennsylvania GOP chairman, state Sen. Greg Rothman, was elected on a platform that can be described as: “Let’s make Pennsylvania Florida.” In ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On April 10, U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., introduced the School Meal Modernization and Hunger Elimination Act, legislation that...

HARRISBURG — Northern Pennsylvania Regional College has been awarded a $1 million grant to enable more high school students to enroll in dual credit p...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The “queens” and “queers” of the kindergarten alphabet book “Pride Puppy” finally had their day before theSupreme Court. Predictabl...

DON’T: We’re always told that two topics to stay away from in polite company are politics and religion. In 2022, the Pew Research Center assembled som...

Canada has one of the most protectionist economies among developed nations. It particularly targets American farmers, media, and manufacturers. That m...

HARRISBURG — Lawmakers in both chambers of the General Assembly want to launch a Pennsylvania Department of Government Efficiency – or PA DOGE – that ...