Politics & Policy

How ironic. Just as many Americans were threatening to move to Canada, an installation opened on Independence Mall to replicate the exper ...

Pennsylvania’s Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey won re-election last week while keeping his distance from presidential nominee Donal ...

Lamenting the election of Donald Trump as president, nearly 2,000 protesters assembled Wednesday evening at Thomas Paine Plaza in Center ...

Donald Trump’s path to victory in Pennsylvania came down to a handful of counties with excruciatingly close returns. Trump’s ...

Shirley Chisholm, the first black wo ...

Three Pennsylvania state House races in the Philadelphia suburbs remain too close to call, with small vote margins separating the candida ...

Jermaine Lassiter sat on a stool inside the Mayfair Diner on Wednesday morning with a hot tea in his hand and a 1,000-yard stare in his e ...

Hillary Clinton told supporters Wednesday that they owed Donald Trump “an open mind and a chance to lead.” Addressing ...

The Republican tide in Pennsylvania Tuesday wasn’t limited to the presidential election and the U.S. Senate race. The GOP captured ...

Donald Trump’s election and a Republican majority in Congress have put the Affordable Care Act on shaky ground. A repeal of the law ...

Pennsylvania does not have a voter ID ...

When North Carolina was called for Donald Trump, a crying Dynah Haubert left the Sheraton ballroom. She and other activists were a ...

Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey fended off his challenger Katie McGinty to win a second term. The combined $155 million in spendin ...

As expected, Rep. Bob Brady will return to Congress for his 11th term as representative from Pennsylvania’s 1st. Congressional Dist ...

Watch PBS NewsHour’s coverage of Election Night 2016 on Tuesday, November 8, 2016 on PBS ...