Government and Politics
Published on December 22, 2020 - Page 11
Congressional leaders hashed out a massive bill that combines $900 billion in COVID-19 aid with a $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill. Here are...
Published on December 21, 2020 - Page 3
WASHINGTON — Undeterred by dismissals and admonitions from judges, President Donald Trump’s campaign continued with its efforts to overturn the...
Published on December 16, 2020 - Page 3
WASHINGTON (AP) —Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell congratulated Democrat Joe Biden as president-elect on Tuesday, saying the Electoral College...
Published on December 15, 2020 - Page 4
WASHINGTON (AP) —For the first time, a groundswell of leading Republicans said Monday that Democrat Joe Biden is the winner of the presidential...
Published on December 13, 2020 - Page 5
HARRISBURG (AP) —When the 20 Pennsylvania loyalists selected by President-elect Joe Biden gather to cast their electoral vote ballots on Monday, it...
Published on December 11, 2020 - Page 18
WASHINGTON (AP) —The Justice Department is investigating the finances of President-elect Joe Biden’s son, including scrutinizing some of his Chinese...
Published on December 10, 2020 - Page 4
WASHINGTON (AP) —The Trump administration said Wednesday it will allow migrants from six countries to extend their legal U.S. residency under a...
Published on December 10, 2020 - Page 10
HARRISBURG (AP) — The drive to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump in the battleground state of Pennsylvania is...
Published on December 8, 2020 - Page 4
WASHINGTON (AP) —President Donald Trump has declared he has the “absolute right” to issue a pardon to himself. Yet the law is murkier than his...
Published on December 4, 2020 - Page 5
WASHINGTON (AP) —President Donald Trump’s daughter and senior White House adviser said Thursday she was deposed for more than five hours by attorneys...
Published on December 4, 2020 - Page 10
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats elected centrist Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney on Thursday to lead their campaign arm into the 2022 elections....
Published on December 2, 2020 - Page 5
HARRISBURG (AP) —Republicans attempting to undo President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to take...
Published on November 30, 2020 - Page 3
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s highest court on Saturday night threw out a lower court’s order preventing the state from certifying dozens of contests...
Published on November 28, 2020 - Page 5
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democrats once dominated Koochiching County in the blue-collar Iron Range of northern Minnesota. But in this month’s...
Published on November 28, 2020 - Page 5
WASHINGTON (AP) —The Justice Department is quietly amending its execution protocols, no longer requiring federal death sentences to be carried out by...
Published on November 21, 2020 - Page 10
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, Democrat John Fetterman, may have gotten under somebody’s skin. A provision slipped into lame-duck...
Published on November 16, 2020 - Page 5
WASHINGTON (AP) —After several thousand supporters of President Donald Trump protested the election results and marched to the Supreme Court,...
Published on November 12, 2020 - Page 4
WASHINGTON (AP) —The presidential race was in limbo in 2000 when outgoing President Bill Clinton let then-Gov. George W. Bush read the ultra-secret...
Published on November 12, 2020 - Page 6
PHILADELPHIA — During a Pennsylvania court hearing this week on one of the election lawsuits brought by President Donald Trump, a judge asked a...
Published on November 11, 2020 - Page 5
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Twenty years ago, in a different time and under far different circumstances than today, it took five weeks of Florida recounts...
Published on November 11, 2020 - Page 5
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The reelection defeat of U.S. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson in Minnesota and some key retirements mean a...
Published on November 11, 2020 - Page 11
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania counties ground through ballot counting Tuesday, a week after voting concluded in a high-turnout battleground election that...
Published on November 10, 2020 - Page 4
HARRISBURG (AP) —President Donald Trump’s campaign launched a lawsuit to stop the certification of the election results in Pennsylvania, suing Monday...
Published on November 9, 2020 - Page 4
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump campaign’s strategy to file a barrage of lawsuits challenging President-elect Joe Biden’s win is more about providing...
Published on November 9, 2020 - Page 8
Joe Biden shored up the Democrats’ “blue wall,” —more sturdily in Michigan, more tenuously in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — to rebuild the party’s...
Published on November 8, 2020 - Page 1
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, positioning...
Published on November 8, 2020 - Page 1
Chanting “This isn’t over! and “Stop the steal,” supporters of President Donald Trump protested at state capitols across the country Saturday,...
Published on November 7, 2020 - Page 1
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden stood on the cusp of winning the presidency Friday night, three days after Election Day. The long, exacting work...
Published on November 7, 2020 - Page 5
ATLANTA (AP) — Advocates for both presidential candidates raced to find every person in Georgia who submitted a flawed ballot before time ran out...
Published on November 7, 2020 - Page 8
ATLANTA (AP) —Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff will face off in a Jan. 5 runoff in Georgia for Perdue’s Senate seat. It’s...