Politics & Policy

In their final week of annual budget hearings, Pennsylvania state lawmakers are trying to evaluate how last year’s sweeping gambling overhaul is affecting state finances.

Senate President Steve Sweeney said in a statement Tuesday his plan would imposes a 3 percent surcharge on businesses making over $1 million.

Foreign lobbying is a huge industry in Washington. It’s common for Washington D.C. elites to curry favor with lawmakers on behalf of fo ...

Guests: Andrea Bernstein, Andrew Prokop Jared Kushner lost his top-level security clearance last week. Since this ...

Even in Texas we're now starting to see the makings of a national blue-wave backlash against the very stable genius.

North Korea says it is willing to discuss denuclearize of the Korean peninsula with the United States, a key requirement laid out by the Trump administration.

On a Monday morning last month people packed the Pittsburgh mayor’s conference room to witness the city’s successful transition to fi ...

New Jersey could become the first state to require a warning sticker on opioid prescription bottles. Assemblyman John Armato said ...

A bipartisan group of New Jersey senators is drafting legislation to counter some of the negative consequences of fed ...

Richard Lazer, who has deep ties to organized labor, will seek the nomination in a mostly suburban district.

"I regret my health has become an ongoing challenge," Cochran said in a statement Monday

Convicted felons, fugitives, domestic abusers and others not legally allowed to buy guns try to do so anyway. They’re known as “lie and try” buyers.

President Trump downplayed congressional GOP concerns. "I don't think you're going to have a trade war"

Trump’s latest ode to autocracy, mouthed at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend, was predictably despicable. The temptation is to simply ignore it. Let's not.