Government and Politics
Published on January 12, 2023 - Page 10
HARRISBURG (AP) -- Pennsylvania's state Senate on Wednesday voted to undo an automatic wholesale tax increase on gasoline and diesel that kicks in...
Published on January 10, 2023 - Page 7
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department is reviewing a batch of potentially classified documents found in the Washington office space of President...
Published on January 8, 2023 - Page 6
WASHINGTON -- It was the extraordinary moment that brought House Republicans to the brink -- and ultimately the moment they found their way back....
Published on January 7, 2023 - Page 2
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican leader Kevin McCarthy was on the cusp of becoming House speaker late Friday as the chamber convened for a historic 14th...
Published on January 6, 2023 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- Assistant District Attorney Daniel Lynn announced Thursday he'll enter the race for Columbia County District Attorney this spring.
Lynn...
Published on January 6, 2023 - Page 2
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For a third day, divided Republicans kept the speaker's chair of the U.S. House sitting empty Thursday, as party leader Kevin...
Published on January 6, 2023 - Page 8
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Joe Biden said Thursday the U.S. would immediately begin turning away Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who cross the...
Published on January 5, 2023 - Page 2
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans flailed through a long second day of fruitless balloting Wednesday, unable to either elect their leader Kevin...
Published on January 4, 2023 - Page 2
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Failing to elect party leader Kevin McCarthy as the new speaker of the House, Republicans adjourned in disarray Tuesday night,...
Published on January 4, 2023 - Page 4
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When Washington Sen. Patty Murray was elected to the Senate in 1992, she says, male senators treated her with some trepidation....
Published on January 4, 2023 - Page 8
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The former chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party said Republican Sen. Ron Johnson spoke to him weeks before Joe Biden...
Published on January 4, 2023 - Page 8
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House Jan. 6 committee is shut down, having completed a whirlwind 18-month investigation of the 2021 Capitol insurrection and...
Published on January 3, 2023 - Page 5
NEW YORK (AP) -- Both political parties are opening the new year confronting critical questions about the people and policies they want to embrace as...
Published on December 26, 2022 - Page 4
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Illegal border crossings by Cubans and Nicaraguans rose sharply in November while overall migration flows were little changed from...
Published on December 26, 2022 - Page 8
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Three buses of recent migrant families arrived from Texas near the home of Vice President Kamala Harris in record-setting cold on...
Published on December 20, 2022 - Page 5
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House Jan. 6 committee urged the Justice Department on Monday to bring criminal charges against former President Donald Trump...
Published on December 17, 2022 - Page 8
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is considering recommending the Justice Department pursue...
Published on December 4, 2022 - Page 8
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A watchdog investigation initiated after the tax returns of two former FBI directors were subjected to intensive audits during the...
Published on November 29, 2022 - Page 14
HARRISBURG -- When John Fetterman goes to Washington in January as one of the Senate's new members, he'll bring along an irreverent style from...
Published on November 27, 2022 - Page 5
NEW YORK -- A week after former President Donald Trump launched his third run for the Republican nomination, he dined with a Holocaust-denying White...
Published on November 27, 2022 - Page 14
Some of Taylor Swift's fans want you to know: They're not still 16, they have careers and resources and they're angry.
Look what Ticketmaster made...
Published on November 26, 2022 - Page 5
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When President Joe Biden speaks about the "scourge" of gun violence, his go-to answer is to zero in on so-called assault weapons...
Published on November 16, 2022 - Page 8
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Biden administration to lift Trump-era asylum restrictions that have been a cornerstone of...
Published on November 15, 2022 - Page 4
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department and lawyers for Donald Trump are at odds over whether the former president can assert executive privilege...
Published on November 12, 2022 - Page 4
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Abortion rights supporters secured another win Thursday as voters in Montana rejected a ballot measure that would have forced...
Published on November 12, 2022 - Page 5
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans intensified their public criticism of former President Donald Trump this week. Some say it is time for the party to...
Published on November 11, 2022 - Page 17
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of veterans in the United States experiencing homelessness dropped by 11% since 2020, the biggest decline in more than...
Published on November 11, 2022 - Page 17
WASHINGTON (AP) -- This week, a judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing Donald Trump's oldest son and other Trump allies of an intimidation and defamation...
Published on November 9, 2022 - Page 1
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eager to claw back power in Congress, energized Republicans waged a grinding push late Tuesday in hard-fought races as they sought...
Published on November 8, 2022 - Page 4
COATESVILLE (AP) -- Candidates and big-name backers made final appeals to voters Monday in the last hours of a fraught midterm election season....