Politics & Policy

President-elect Joe Biden said Friday that President Donald Trump isn't “fit for the job,” but he repeatedly refused to endorse growing Democratic calls to impeach him.

The county government’s network was accessed through a phishing email received in September, and ransomware was activated, a December memo says.

Mike White led the Presidential Protective Division until June 2017. He blames abysmal preparation for this week’s violence but says that won’t happen on Jan. 20.

The most dangerous situation in recent history was a 1990 pipe bomb in the basement.

In a Friday tweet Trump said, “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”

Minority Leader Jay Costa, D-Allegheny, said Sen. Doug Mastriano's words and actions since November encouraged a coup attempt and inspired the people behind it.

“Nobody is fooled by these last-second, come-to-Jesus conversions,” said Rick Wilson, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, a group of Republicans fiercely critical of Trump.

Much of the reaction among Biden and Trump supporters caused reactions that broke along existing political fault lines.

Less than two weeks before President-elect Joe Biden will be inaugurated, fractures in Pa.’s evenly split congressional delegation have widened.

Twitter had threatened to block him from the platform over posts he made in the wake of the violence.

The Montgomery County Board of Commissioners virtual meeting turned into a heated exchange about racism after Capitol insurrection and summer protests.

Kim, a second-term Democrat from a district Trump won twice, wasn’t looking for publicity, according to one colleague who came upon him and didn’t recognize him at first.

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn speaks with WHYY political reporter Katie Meyer about how Pa.’s political disarray stoked tensions in D.C. this week.

Pa. Congresswoman Madeleine Dean spoke with Morning Edition’s Jennifer Lynn the morning after the attack at the U.S. Capitol.

A mob stormed the U.S. Capitol after Trump urged supporters to march to the building to oppose the election results. Roughly 14 hours later, Congress affirmed Biden's victory.