Politics & Policy

The government says Hamza bin Laden "is emerging as a leader" of al-Qaida, posting videos on the Internet calling for attacks on the U.S. and its western allies.

A change in Pennsylvania Department of Corrections policy means donated books must be processed at a secure center outside the prisons.

City Councilman Allan Domb has introduced legislation to shrink — but not substantially change — the controversial tax break.

Cohen relied on the argumentative strategy of dissociation to carefully separate his actions from his essence and Trump’s actions from Trump’s essence.

Delaware could soon be the next state to join an effort to make the winner of popular vote in a presidential election the automatic winner of the Electoral College vote.

Marty and her guests discuss the public testimony of former-Trump lawyer and confidant, Michael Cohen, and what it means for the President.

Sen. Cory Booker, one of half a dozen Democratic senators running for the White House, is reintroducing a bill on Thursday that would end the federal prohibition on marijuana.

With the ban now blocked by lawsuits, transgender troops Wednesday were set to testify for the first time before Congress.

New Jersey Transit met Dec. 31 deadlines for installing positive train control, but the Atlantic City line shut for that work won’t be back until May 24.

A planned signing ceremony was canceled. The biggest sticking point was sanctions against North Korea, Trump said at a press conference Thursday afternoon local time.

The House passed what advocates call the most significant gun control measure in more than two decades on Wednesday.

Mayor Jim Kenney says he's looking for a new assessment chief because current property assessments have been off target by 15 percent in large swaths of the city.

In matter-of-fact testimony, the former Trump lawyer drew a troubling picture of his former boss, implicating the president in lies big and small to the American public.

One of Governor Tom Wolf’s perennially-unsuccessful policy suggestions may face better odds this year.

Lest we forget, we would not have heard from Cohen today, in a public session, if the midterm electorate had not thrown the House Republicans out of power.