Politics & Policy

A replacement for Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will step in two months earlier than anticipated, President Trump announced Sunday.

The federal government is expected to remain partially closed past Christmas Day in a standoff over President Donald Trump's demand for funds to build a border wall.

A partial shutdown of the federal government began just after midnight Saturday, after Congress and President Trump were unable to resolve an impasse over funding.

A City Council committee chose the outgoing member's brother to replace him. But the full council rejected him as well as the process the city uses.

While this is the first time the Senate has passed anti-lynching legislation, Congress has been trying for over a century.

Democratic state treasurer-elect Colleen Davis has pleaded guilty to speeding after being charged with driving on a suspended license and other offenses.

USDA could make it harder for Pa. SNAP recipients to keep year-round benefits

Wolf this week changed his tone on the subject as legalizing the sale of recreational marijuana gathers popularity and momentum.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney has signed a bill that will give people at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder more predictable hours and another raising city worker pay.

Jared Kushner's family company is buying another property in a New Jersey beach town where developers can get big tax breaks thanks to a new federal program.

More details released on the leak of highly flammable ethylene oxide that caused a traffic nightmare for travelers on the Delaware Memorial Bridge over Thanksgiving weekend.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., says President Trump "will not sign" a Senate-approved plan to temporarily fund government agencies.

New Jersey is among nine states joining a federal lawsuit to block the Trump administration from allowing seismic testing off the East Coast.

Mattis' departure completes a near-wholesale shake-up of Trump's initial national security team and follows a record-setting series of departures of administration leaders.

Currently, people claiming asylum are allowed to stay in the U.S. — sometimes in detention — while their claim is pending in immigration court.