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With control of a currently 50-50 Senate up for grabs, it looks like the GOP could well come up short even in a favorable political environment becaus...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Pennsylvania’s U.S. lawmakers are urging the State Department to recognize the plight of a Pittsburgh-area resident who has been se...

While President Joe Biden, beleaguered by the unrelenting pandemic, spiraling inflation and myriad other domestic and foreign policy problems is seein...

Republican senators are no fans of a U.S. Postal Service pilot program testing the viability of local post offices providing limited banking services ...

Voting mostly along party lines, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed former Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine to be the nation’s assistan...

Many years ago, Sen. Eugene McCarthy said there is nothing more dangerous in politics than a politician without further ambition. And perhaps one thin...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, a fiercely anti-tax and anti-regulation lawmaker who never entirely warmed to Presi...

BRADFORD, Pa. — Several Democratic candidates for president are calling for an end to the hydraulic fracturing method of drilling for natural gas, but...

It has been one week since the latest school shooting in Parkland, Fla., that left 17 people dead and 15 injured — mostly young teens. The debate over...

When U.S. veterans returned home from serving in Vietnam, many were spat on and called filthy names. More than 40 years later, veterans near and far w...