Politics & Policy

First, Philadelphia's new recycling plan, which no longer includes incineration. Then, environmental news from N.J. Lastly, we discuss the judicial elections in Philadelphia.

Four African-American women’s groups sponsored a candidates forum, hoping to hear Kenney’s plans for a second term. They felt snubbed when he didn’t show.

President Donald Trump is tapping a former border patrol chief who served in the Obama administration to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Potential leaders are ignoring our questions about fixing poverty. That’s not cool.

Pennsylvania: Land of Disenfranchisement? It's not the state slogan, but Pennsylvania is in the minority of states with closed primary elections.

The president's comments came after Facebook this week banned Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones and other extremists, saying they violated its ban on "dangerous individuals."

The Trump Administration is rolling back some Obama-era safety regulations for offshore drilling that were meant to prevent a repeat of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion.

South Korea's military has bolstered its surveillance in case there are additional weapons launches, and South Korean and U.S. authorities are analyzing the details.

Whether presidential campaigns have learned from the cyberattacks is a critical question ahead as the 2020 election approaches. Preventing the attacks won't be easy or cheap.

Wolf hopes to use a severance tax on natural gas drilling to fund broadband internet access, emergency infrastructure, and blight removal, among other things.

Eight sections of Philadelphia will be no-go zones for medical marijuana under legislation passed by City Council on Thursday.

Unfortunately for critics of the Philadelphia Parking Authority, City Hall still doesn’t have the power to wrest control of on-street parking from the state-run agency.

Democratic presidential hopeful Jay Inslee is calling for the nation's entire electrical grid and all new vehicles and buildings to be carbon pollution free by 2030.

Klobuchar says that as president she would prioritize mental health and substance abuse treatment over incarceration for nonviolent offenders.

Gift laws vary widely by state, but critics like March on Harrisburg deride Pennsylvania's as being one of the loosest in the country.