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The census has not asked all U.S. households about citizenship since 1950.

The Trump administration will ask Congress to make drastic changes to weaken the independence of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, NPR has learned.

One company. One script. Many, many voices.

At 203 members in the House and 50 in the Senate, the commonwealth has the largest full-time legislature in the country.

Last week’s 2,200-page omnibus congressional spending bill nearly doubled funding for construction work led by the U.S. Army Corps of E ...

Fired Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin tells NPR that political forces in the Trump administration want to privatize the VA — and he was standing in the way.

Now that legal challenges to Pennsylvania’s new court-drawn congressional map have been rejected, state lawmakers have turned their att ...

Some Pennsylvania House Republicans urged impeachment after the Democratic-majority state Supreme Court declared the state’s congressional map unconstitutional and redrew it.

In New Jersey, there’s a bail algorithm designed to recommend whether you sit behind bars or walk free until your trial. The state’s court system recently abandoned cash bail.

Mayor Jim Kenney has named a new nine-member board for the Fund for Philadelphia, two of whose past chairs were accused of misspending

“Anyone who thinks the special counsel Robert Mueller isn't in imminent danger of being fired isn't paying attention,” Coons said Wednesday in an interview on MSNBC.

A Republican state lawmaker has introduced a number of resolutions to impeach all but one of Pennsylvania’s f ...

Top executives at Cambridge Analytica have been secretly recorded describing the stealthy methods they used to help get Donald Trump elected.

GOP leaders are taking no action to protect Mueller, embracing a familiar strategy with the president — simply waiting out the storm.