Government

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot is returning to prime time with a Thursday evening hearing.

The agency was supposed to end its work after city bonds were repaid in 2023, but a new extension will keep PICA around until 2047.

Current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed the death Saturday.

Judge Boasberg ruled the government has violated both the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act by failing to protect the North Atlantic right whale.

Wickremesinghe said that he will leave office once a new government is in place, and hours later the speaker of Parliament said President Rajapaksa would step down Wednesday.

Pa. Republicans are pushing an amendment that would keep courts from intervening in attempts to restrict abortion. It just cleared its first big hurdle.

The vetoes made Friday complicate the state budget package.

The court granted a preliminary injunction that prohibits the Wolf administration from “implementing, administering, or enforcing” the carbon-pricing policy.

Pennsylvanians will soon be able to get state assistance to pay for home repairs, thanks to a new program that lawmakers passed as part of the state budget.

In the report, Customs and Border Protection blamed a “lack of command control and communication” for mounted agents using their horses to forcibly block and move migrants.

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider a case that could reshape election policy across the country, including in Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania lawmakers are starting to wrap up the state budget a week after the annual spending plan was due to be completed when the state's fiscal year ended.

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to protect access to abortion as he faced mounting pressure from fellow Democrats to be more forceful on the subject.

Others receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom are actor Denzel Washington and the late Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain.

It's been a week since the annual spending plan was due to be completed when the state's fiscal year ended last Thursday.