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Democratic Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski faces charges including fraud, bribery, attempted extortion and lying to the FBI.

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court is declining to delay implementation of a new congressional map the justices put in place last week.

In a rare convergence, Fox, CNN, the ACLU, GOP and Democratic, Apple and Microsoft agree: The U.S. government should not unilaterally seize data stored in a foreign country.

A three-judge panel declined to temporarily hold up implementation of the map put in place by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

After lawmakers didn’t meet the court’s short deadline to fix it, justices redrew the map themselves. And analysts expect it will give Democrats stronger representation.

Pennsylvania’s new court-ordered congressional map has thrust the commonwealth into the national spotli ...

This is the third time in recent months they’ve made such an appeal in a gerrymandering case.

Now serving his fourth term, Pawlowski is charged with 54 counts of corruption, including bribery, conspiracy, fraud, extortion, and lying to the FBI. He's pleaded not guilty.

“The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has engaged in a really amazing, highly partisan, unconstitutional power grab,” he told reporters in the Capitol rotunda.

The motion to debate the bill, introduced by a Democrat, required a two-thirds vote and failed. Thirty-six lawmakers supported it, while 71 voted no.

The 2rd district now appears to have nearly 10 percent fewer black voters than the corresponding district did in the previous map.

Analysts think the court-drawn map will give Democrats a shot at winning at least half of Pennsylvania’s 18 districts.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is expected to decide Monday where Pennsylvania’s congressional boundaries will fall for the next two election cycles.

The Pa. Supreme Court will now decide the shape of the state’s 18 congressional districts, as Democratic ...