Politics & Policy

President Trump, a day after using racist language in tweets directed at four minority members of Congress, dug in further Monday on Twitter and at a live event.

The DOJ and Homeland Security say potential refugees from Central America who want to seek asylum in the U.S. must first apply for that status in the first country they enter.

The Democratic presidential candidate is using the announced closure of Hahnemann University Hospital as a case in point for his Medicare for All plan.

White racism was at the root of Donald Trump's 2016 candidacy, and so it will be again in 2020.

Four freshman lawmakers, all minorities, targeted in a series of tweets by the president denounced his remarks as racist and responsible for "stoking white nationalism."

In the days ahead of the state GOP leadership election, the party was braced for an ugly battle.

This year, the Netroots Nation conference got local, thanks to City Councilmember-at-large Helen Gym and local community leaders.

Lawmakers expanded options for Pa. residents who want to buy fireworks two years ago. Now, some local government leaders say the changes have created too many problems.

A lawyer, lawmakers and the acting Homeland Security inspector general spoke to members of the House oversight committee about what they have seen at the Southern border.

This week: we get an update on the closure of Hahnemann Hospital and we learn about the Clean Slate Act.

One is tempted to believe that his latest failure is further evidence of his weakness and ineptitude.

The annual liberal political convention Netroots Nation attracts Democratic devotees, and presidential candidates, to Philadelphia for the first time.

During his time as head of the Labor Department, he has cut regulations and pushed for the expansion of apprenticeship programs.

The new law exempts certain “vulnerable” inmates from being kept in isolation and lessens use of the practice on prisoners for whom it is deemed necessary.

The order marks the latest effort to obtain the information despite a Supreme Court ruling that bars the administration from including the question on the 2020 census.