Politics & Policy

vGov. Tom Wolf kicked off the new year with an ambitious climate change goal: reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions 26 percent by 2025, and 80 percent by 2050.

It's known as "the theater committee" for its high profile, high-drama role investigating President Donald Trump's White House.

The report says that because of the shutdown, which lasted from Dec. 22 through last Friday, about $18 billion in discretionary government spending was delayed.

The U.S. Department of Energy has started production on a new, low-yield nuclear weapon designed to counter Russia.

The formal letter Monday suggests Trump will reschedule the speech after it was postponed because of the partial government shutdown.

The sanctions will not likely affect consumer prices at the gas pump but will hit oil refiners, particularly those on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

President Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, William Barr, says VP Mike Pence is among the officials with whom he's discussed the special counsel's Russia investigation

Daylin Leach is suing a woman who says the Democratic Pa. state senator sexually assaulted her in 1991.

The most extensive effects would hit if a shutdown lasted 90 days.

There is a concept in the American system called "checks and balances."

The price of a first-class forever stamp went up a nickel Sunday, from 50 cents to 55 cents.

We hear about the removal of iconic 30th St. station flipboard sign. Then, Marty talks with Pa.'s Agriculture Secretary about hemp. Last, reaction to the end of the shutdown.

Roger Waters, a member of Pink Floyd, brought his celebrity power to help overcome many of the obstacles involved in securing the release of an ISIS fighter's children.

Hundreds of thousands of federal employees across the country are returning to work after being furloughed for more than a month

In less than a month, Juan Guaidó has risen from obscure, junior lawmaker to self-proclaimed interim president of Venezuela.