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The Philadelphia Housing Authority will randomly select 10,000 applicants to be on the new wait list for the federal subsidy. It’s expected to take 3-5 years to clear it.

Images on TV channel Globo News showed protesters roaming the presidential palace, many of them wearing the colors that have come to symbolize the Bolsonaro government.

Biden is stopping in El Paso after two years of hounding by Republicans who've hammered him as soft on border security while the number of migrants crossing spirals.

Pennsylvania’s newly minted state House speaker is moving to make his major policy goal regarding victims of child sexual abuse to be the chamber’s urgent priority.

Not since the Civil War era has a speaker's vote dragged through so many rounds of voting.

President Biden has conferred high honors on those who stood against the Jan. 6 Capitol mob two years ago and the menacing effort to upend the election results.

The new law requires building inspections to be conducted within three days after requested.

The explosion destroyed three homes and damaged dozens more. So far, the city’s gas utility has not found evidence of a leak.

Among those being honored are seven members of law enforcement, as well as election workers and election officials.

Democratic Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania said Thursday that he will undergo surgery for prostate cancer but is expected to make a full recovery.

After the Pa. House picked Mark Rozzi to be the new speaker, some are hopeful the chamber will finally pass meaningful rule changes.

What started as a political novelty, the first time in 100 years a nominee has not won the gavel on the first vote, has devolved into a bitter Republican Party feud.

The Biden administration says it'll immediately begin turning away Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.

Both McCarthy and the nominee for speaker a century ago represented a party establishment regarded with hostility by a potent faction of the party.