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It’s a well-worn bit of political lore: President Donald Trump made history in 2016 when he eked out a 44,000-vote win in Pennsylvania.
The commonwealth passed sweeping legislation strengthening protections for animals, and increasing penalties for animal abuse.
The hearing, in front of the House Democratic Policy Committee, comes months after COVID-19 shuttered businesses and locked down the state.
In contrast to Santayana, President Donald Trump wants us to remember the past so we can repeat it.
We are grappling with a massive public health threat.
The leaders of some of the state’s largest school districts started to issue a simple message: “no can do.”
On June 25, Attorney General Josh Shapiro publicly released the first report of the Forty-Third Statewide Investigating Grand Jury.
The whole incident began with the George Floyd protests, and spread to unsuccessful attempts to create an “autonomous zone.”
In Philadelphia, administrators tapped the brakes late Thursday on a plan to open school for two days a week this fall.
The 2008 mortgage foreclosure crisis was brutal.
Last Tuesday, Joe Biden unveiled the “third pillar” of his substantive plan to defeat our health and economic crises.
There will be rallies, voter registrations at every event, and ‘get out the vote’ narratives throughout your communities.
These are words spoken by a president I admire so much that my youngest daughter’s middle name is Lincoln.
A pharmaceutical industry-backed dark money group has already spent more than $200,000 on TV ads for U.S. Rep. Scott Perry.
In the last 24 hours, the Sierra Club, the venerable environmental advocacy group, denounced the racism of its founder, John Muir.
It was sponsored by the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., who died last week, aged 80.
Gov. Tom Wolf tweeted a strong rebuke Wednesday of a botched fundraising attempt at the Bloomsburg Fair.
President Donald Trump said a lot of eyebrow-raising things in his July 19 interview with Fox News anchor Chris Wallace.
Thousands of Portlanders, led by hundreds of moms and dads, were assaulted by federal agents.
Darlene Berlin is just the kind of substitute you’d want to take over your classroom for the day.