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The senator’s problem — and why he’s losing Democrats across the country — is that regardless of his earnest belief in what he’s doing, he’s wrong.

A series of Philadelphia Inquirer editorials looks at Pres. Trump’s crypto holdings. “Small investors, at least, lost almost $4 billion on the Trump meme coin. Meanwhile, the President… walked away wi...

While the ruling does not make a determination on the legality of what are known as “third-country” deportations, it is being celebrated as a victory by the Trump administration.

The president continues to plumb the depths of narcissism with a breathtaking array of self-aggrandizing vanity projects.

A series of editorials exploring how Donald Trump has been lining his pockets since he returned to the White House.

Gov. Shapiro should seize the opportunity to counter a cruel attack on the state’s communities.

From Trump’s unhinged outbursts to calling the cops on a student journalist, a free press dies in tandem with the American Experiment.

The city usually blasts out an email with a roll call of Hispanic Heritage Month happenings. This year it hasn’t — and it fits a pattern of Philly’s electeds giving Latino communities little respect.

Government needs to step in and apply guardrails to artificial intelligence, but Congress has failed to take action while the president is all-in on an unregulated AI future.

Majorities in both parties back border security, worker visas, and a path to legal status — they just don’t know it.

If ICE is being used to indiscriminately terrorize communities and ignore constitutional protections while disregarding its public safety charge, what is the point of its continued existence?

At the 2026 BridgeUSA National Summit in Philadelphia, college students made the case that talking to people you disagree with isn’t just possible — it’s the whole point of politics.

Sterling Jones, 22, died after his ATV struck an Uber driver in May. Lawyers for Jones' father say police should not have been pursuing him in the first place.

The data undercut the right’s fear campaign. Facts also undo the left’s clean narrative of “perfect” new arrivals. That’s the point.

Police in Mount Holly Springs, a tiny borough in central Pennsylvania, have turned over 32 immigrants to ICE since March.

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Trooper Michael E. Pahira Jr. was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer. The Trump administration turned it into a political rallying cry about Haitian immigrants.

What is happening with ICE is not about enforcing immigration law; it is about a president using the vast power of the United States against those he deems a target.

A resident of the U.S. for 35 years, the construction worker was fatally shot by ICE agents while still trying to navigate the nation’s arcane immigration system.

While the human impact of President Trump’s immigration policies is immeasurable, the economic damage is clear.

Beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are facing delays, detention, and deportation.

The “great replacement theory” is an idea based on fear of change, of losing power, of looking around you and not recognizing your country anymore. But America has nothing to be afraid of.

Hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants find themselves in limbo, many losing their jobs and risking deportation, after U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services refuses to process their cases.

Bucks County District Attorney Joe Khan has charged five teens with aggravated assault. He must also bring that level of accountability to police engaged in the melee.

As Sen. Dave McCormick recently noted, more than half of Americans worry about fraud at the polls. The reason is Republicans like Pennsylvania's junior senator.

As border residents can tell you, what’s playing out in places like Chicago and Minneapolis is, in many ways, nothing new.

Under the president’s policies, which also curtail legal immigration, families will end up paying an extra $2,150 a year for goods and services by 2028.

The president's masked thugs have now executed two U.S. citizens in broad daylight on the streets of Minneapolis.

The conduct of too many federal agents involved in ICE raids violates the norms of decency, contradicts use of force policies, and disregards rights enshrined in the Constitution.

By invading the South American nation without the approval of Congress, Trump threatens to make the United States a pariah with no moral authority for other dictatorships around the globe.

The kind of militarization seen at the border is now knocking at people’s doors in places like Chicago and New Orleans, and Americans don’t like what they see.

In less than a year in the White House, Donald Trump has used the power of the presidency to demolish institutions and run roughshod over the rule of law.

In immigration courtrooms across the country, ICE agents stand in wait to arrest people who are following the rules.

The president has succeeded in curtailing illegal immigration through a mix of enforcement, deterrence, and cruelty, but it is unsustainable.

In clear violation of the law, the Trump administration has killed at least 42 people across 10 reported strikes on boats that were allegedly carrying drugs.

Beyond the daily outrage of the Trump administration's mass deportation efforts, there is another insidious level to the anti-immigrant push.

Increasingly outrageous actions from Trump and his administration, including the absolute disregard of Congress’ power of the purse, have left Democratic leaders with little recourse.

We can argue on the merits of propping up Argentina’s economy, but the president rewarding his political allies is no way to run foreign policy in Latin America.

ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show after the comedian, long a Trump target, ran afoul of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.

Free speech comes with consequences, but the government doesn't get to have a say.

American exceptionalism lies in its foundational promise of equality enabled by the rule of law — values that are under siege by white supremacists who are desperately holding on to power.

Here's an in-depth guide to the key players, companies, and deals behind Donald Trump's scheme to cash in on his presidency.

This city is full of our Puerto Rican community's labor, our stories and our influence. But where is our recognition, our acknowledgement, and our respect?

Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.

The Eagles' Super Bowl win and back-to-back holidays have made it one big lovefest in the City of Brotherly Love, but it’s hard to enjoy the party when it feels like it’s the last call for democracy.

Sunday's failure to join a suit to stop federal funding cuts impacting Pa. research institutions and the resignation of the state consumer advocate have cast doubt on the Republican's independence.