Politics & Policy

Governor Tom Corbett and his fellow Republicans in control of the state legislature have succeeded in passing a $27 billion budget for th ...

“Explain it to me like I’m a 6-year-old.” That was the favorite line of Joe Miller, the lawyer played by Denzel ...

Both the U.S. and Greece are in the midst of crises over the size of their respective national debts. A common characteristic of both d ...

President Barack Obama stopped in Philadelphia Thursday to speak at a Center City hotel. Obama told the crowd of about 800 that he has do ...

The 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup began today in Germany, with the U.S. team a contender, and all games on ESPN and ESPN2. The openi ...

James Verone has a chance to become the most famous American bank robber since John Dillinger. Yet, he’s held up just one bank, fo ...

James Verone has a chance to become the most famous American bank robber since John Dillinger. Yet, he’s held up just one bank, fo ...

Karl Rove, former advisor to George W. Bush, ...

I am definitely not the type of person a tech analyst would call an early adopter. I never drooled over the Sharper Image catalog, ...

Although the Obama administration has been trying to limit its enforcement of U.S. immigration law only to illegal aliens who have commit ...

Larry Holmes is getting his sheepskin, finally. The former boxing champion, a seventh-grade dropout, will get an honorary diploma ...

What city is unknown to most Americans, but is as big as America’s three largest cities put together? The answer is Tianjin, in th ...

In the wake of Luzerne County’s “kids for cash” scandal, court advocates say Pennsylvania’s judicial discipline s ...