Politics & Policy

Without new budget legislation signed into law by Friday, the state will lose the authority to make many discretionary payments.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen last month said a repeal “would have very damaging effects on the economy and would set women back decades.”

While abortion-rights supporters have focused their anger at the Supreme Court, but there was plenty aimed at Democrats who they feel let them down.

Hutchinson quoted Trump as directing his staff, in profane terms, to take away the metal-detecting magnetometers despite knowing the crowd was armed.

One bill would prohibit anyone who comes to N.J. for an abortion from being extradited back to states where abortion is illegal.

Polling over abortion in Pa. suggests voters don’t favor outright bans. With Roe still in place, efforts to do it were largely for show. Now that’s changed.

A proposal to require Pa.'s four state universities to promise they are not conducting research or experiments with fetal tissue from elective abortions was added to budget.

With $750 million on the table, Congressman Dwight Evans and state Senator Art Haywood look to create red flag laws in Pennsylvania.

Lawmakers on the panel investigating the 2021 insurrection had previously indicated there would be no more hearings until July.

There are lots of questions about what happens now after the Supreme Court's ruling on Roe v. Wade. Here are six that have political implications.

The legislation provides funding for education, but not directly to help landlords install new detectors — and PHA says cost is a big issue.

Overall 24% of registered Philadelphia voters went to the polls, vs. 17% in the previous midterm.

A similar system was used without major issues during the 2020 election as an emergency measure. Now lawmakers are poised to make voting by mail the law.

With the legislative session set to wrap up for the summer this week, New Jersey lawmakers have moved on nearly half a dozen measures related to election reform.

President Joe Biden is praising the global alliance confronting Russia over its war in Ukraine.