Politics & Policy

President Trump deputized lawyer Rudy Giuliani to run a shadow foreign policy for Ukraine outside the State Department, witnesses told Congress this past week.

Former State Department official, Richard Stengel discusses his new book, "Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It."

Some newer members of Congress are pushing for more anti-opioid legislation, but those who passed last year’s bill are unsure more is needed.

Companies sued for workplace issues or facing regulatory penalties still routinely received tax incentive awards, a state staffer says.

City Councilmember Al Taubenberger introduced a legislative package Thursday to give breaks on wage and real estate taxes to many Philadelphia families.

New federal rules on pipeline safety are being praised by the oil and gas industry but dismissed by pipeline critics in Pennsylvania as unlikely to make pipelines any safer.

Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper's son who rose to become the powerful chairman of the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee, died early Thursday.

These new numbers from the Urban Institute offer the first reality check on the rhetoric that has dominated the Democratic debate over health care reform.

The requests are in response to an executive order Trump issued in July after courts blocked his administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

The vast majority of Pa. voters will fill out ballots by hand Nov. 5. In the past, direct-recording electronic machines dominated.

A Delaware senator wants to repeal legislation passed in early 2018 that aimed to address disparities in the state’s cash bail system.

The acting Department of State secretary says the legacy system doesn’t make it easy for applicants to tell how long the process will take.

A look at hows the candidate's performed at Tuesday night's Democratic presidential debate in Columbus, Ohio.

The fourth Democratic debate was a long one. You might not have made it through the whole thing, but there were some potentially consequential moments.

It reflects a frustration among activists that issues of sexual violence and harassment have largely been absent from the debate stage and campaign trail.