Government Accountability

Despite the guilty verdict, Trump remains the Republican nominee for president. Here's how the conviction is already playing out for the campaign.

Trump and his campaign had been preparing for a guilty verdict for days, even as they held out hope for a hung jury.

WHYY News revealed the embezzlement of taxpayer money from the unemployment trust fund in 2023 after receiving a tip about the theft.

A day earlier, Alito rejected demands he recuse himself from cases involving Donald Trump and the Jan. 6 rioters because of flags flown at his N.J. and Virginia homes.

As City Council negotiates a budget with Mayor Parker, some council members and advocates seek more funding that directly impacts working-class Black and brown Philadelphians.

Recommendations could include payments, social services, and political reforms.

Jurors were shown texts, emails and phone records showing that Menendez requested information that was allegedly being passed on to the Egyptian government.

Chester’s state-appointed receiver says the city never signed off on salaries for its stormwater authority board members. Board members might have to pay back restitution.

Demonstrators protested a relatively flat budget proposal for Parks & Rec, saying more money for rec centers would help fight gun violence.

News of the second flag brought renewed calls for Alito to step aside from the Trump-related cases.

Judge Sidney H. Stein said jurors were trapped in an elevator for several minutes during what was supposed to be a 10-minute afternoon break that lasted almost a half hour.

“He attacks his opponents as vermin,” Biden said. “He says immigrants are poisoning the blood of America. That’s a line used in Hitler’s Germany, not an American president.”

Pennsylvania State Police will be directed to release an annual report on traffic stop data, but public information experts say that’s not enough.

The judge has said he expects closing arguments to happen on May 28, the Tuesday after Memorial Day.

A lawyer testified Monday that a businessman saved the senator's then-future wife's home from foreclosure just as the senator allegedly helped him secure business with Egypt.