Government and Politics
Published on February 10, 2022 - Page 6
HARRISBURG (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf hit the road Wednesday to begin selling his proposal for what would be the largest-ever increase in aid for...
Published on February 7, 2022 - Page 3
HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf will pitch his eighth and last budget proposal to lawmakers Tuesday, as the Democrat pushes Republicans to spend more...
Published on February 6, 2022 - Page 7
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Anti-abortion clinics across the country are receiving tens of millions of tax dollars to talk women out of ending their...
Published on February 5, 2022 - Page 7
LOS ANGELES (AP) —When Leondra Kruger settled into her new chambers at California’s highest court seven years ago, she asked her top assistant to...
Published on February 3, 2022 - Page 4
NEW YORK (AP) — As former President Donald Trump insists his vice president, Mike Pence, could have prevented Joe Biden from taking office, a...
Published on February 3, 2022 - Page 6
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democrats’ fragile hold on the Senate majority became more tenuous Wednesday with the sudden illness of New Mexico Sen. Ben Ray...
Published on February 1, 2022 - Page 4
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Talks to stave off the threat of war in Eastern Europe moved to the United Nations Security Council on Monday. Russia,...
Published on January 29, 2022 - Page 5
PITTSBURGH (AP) —Arriving just hours after a bridge collapse here, President Joe Biden stared into the cratered muddy earth where the aging span fell...
Published on January 29, 2022 - Page 8
WASHINGTON — As America’s first second gentleman, Doug Emhoff has attended a U.S. naturalization ceremony in New York, dished up spaghetti and...
Published on January 27, 2022 - Page 9
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy said Tuesday that it has discharged 23 active-duty sailors for refusing the coronavirus vaccine, marking the first time it...
Published on January 21, 2022 - Page 10
WASHINGTON (AP) —President Joe Biden ends his first year in the White House with a clear majority of Americans disapproving of his handling of the...
Published on January 8, 2022 - Page 7
NEW YORK (AP) — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz appeared on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” show Thursday to apologize for describing the Jan. 6...
Published on January 7, 2022 - Page 18
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden accused Donald Trump and his supporters of holding a “dagger at the throat of democracy” in a forceful speech...
Published on January 6, 2022 - Page 4
HARRISBURG (AP) —More than a dozen Republican candidates for governor appeared on stage together for the first time Wednesday. The question-and-...
Published on January 5, 2022 - Page 5
The fighting one Capitol Police officer described as “medieval” and another as a “trip to hell” left more than 100 law enforcement personnel injured...
Published on January 5, 2022 - Page 5
HARRISBURG (AP) —Dominion Voting Systems has asked a court to restrict any inspection of its voting machines as part of what Republican lawmakers...
Published on January 4, 2022 - Page 9
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first time Celeste Norris laid eyes on Ashli Babbitt, the future insurrectionist had just rammed her vehicle three times with...
Published on January 2, 2022 - Page 4
WASHINGTON (AP) —Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts says the federal judiciary needs to do more to ensure judges don’t participate in cases...
Published on January 2, 2022 - Page 21
Millions of Americans watched the events in Washington last Jan. 6 unfold on live television. Police officers testified to the violence and mayhem....
Published on January 1, 2022 - Page 6
Minimum wage increases, animal protections and police accountability are part of a series of new laws taking effect across the country today, the...
Published on December 23, 2021 - Page 10
WASHINGTON (AP) —President Joe Biden, progressive and moderate Democrats appear determined to return to the negotiating table with Sen. Joe Manchin....
Published on December 20, 2021 - Page 4
School systems nationwide rely on high-level expertise from the U.S. Secret Service and others as they work to stay vigilant for signs of potential...
Published on December 20, 2021 - Page 4
WASHINGTON (AP) —More than 12,000 military service members refusing the COVID-19 vaccine are seeking religious exemptions, and so far they are having...
Published on December 20, 2021 - Page 5
Facing rising infections and a new COVID-19 variant, colleges across the U.S. have once again been thwarted in seeking a move to normalcy and are...
Published on December 15, 2021 - Page 5
WASHINGTON (AP) — As a mob overran the U.S. Capitol last January, some of Donald Trump’s highest-profile defenders in the media — and even his own...
Published on December 9, 2021 - Page 4
WASHINGTON (AP) — On Wednesday, a group of progressive Democrats ratcheted up pressure on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to punish conservative Rep. Lauren...
Published on December 3, 2021 - Page 10
WASHINGTON (AP) — After leaders defused a partisan standoff over federal vaccine mandates Thursday, the Senate passed a stopgap spending bill that...
Published on December 1, 2021 - Page 8
It’s the moment conservatives have been waiting for. Oral arguments at the Supreme Court today represent the best opportunity leaders on the right...
Published on November 29, 2021 - Page 4
WASHINGTON (AP) —Both sides are telling the Supreme Court there’s no middle ground in Wednesday’s showdown over abortion. The justices can either...
Published on November 26, 2021 - Page 10
NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — On Thursday, President Joe Biden wished Americans a happy and closer-to-normal Thanksgiving, the second celebrated in the...