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President Joe Biden came to office seeing two sicknesses in his country. Neither has abated a year later.

Friday had been the deadline. The city cited ongoing negotiations with employee unions for the extension to Jan. 24.

The inspection of voting machines in a heavily Republican county in Pennsylvania appears ready to go forward in a GOP effort inspired by former President Donald Trump.

It's unlikely that Biden's voting rights legislation can pass. We'll look at what's happening in Congress today, and take it back to the crucial 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Stewart Rhodes has been arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

It’s a vision of election overload that would undercut Pennsylvania’s proportional, local representation in Washington, D.C.

Democrats are mounting an impassioned bid to overhaul Senate rules that stand in the way of their sweeping voting legislation.

Unlike a previous version of the measure, the bill that passed the New Jersey Legislature Mon. would not require insurance providers to cover abortions.

State House Republicans who just lost a key vote on new preliminary legislative district maps moved Monday to regain more control of the process.

The city’s fiscal emergency is worsening because of a failed pension plan. Receiver Michael Doweary is looking at all options, including bankruptcy.

When the 219th state Legislature is sworn in at noon on Tuesday, the overall body and its Democratic leadership will include more people of color.

President Joe Biden has held fewer news conferences than any of his five immediate predecessors at the same point in their presidencies.

The state senator who has pushed to overturn last year’s presidential election formally announced he will run for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.

Democratic leaders recalled Reid — often laughingly — as a man whose impatience for pleasantries was part of a drive to improve the lives of ordinary Americans.