Pennsylvania law allows for the death penalty, though there have been no executions in the state since 1999.

A perfect storm of harsh immigration enforcement, aging journeymen and a building boom for data centers is wreaking havoc on the nation’s supply of skilled trade workers.

A growing number of voters are taking their anger about affordability to the polls this midterm election and blaming President Donald Trump’s tariffs as a culprit for rising expenses, polls show.

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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak crossed a historic threshold this week: at 1,078 cases in 41 counties, the state has recorded the nation’s largest measles outbreak in the last three decades. Five peop...

A movement is brewing to get sheriffs around the county to pledge not to interfere in the 2026 midterm elections, and at least one Pennsylvania sheriff is on board.

Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.

Recognizing the impact its June 15 ruling would have on skill game hosts and operators, the Supreme Court instructed that no law enforcement agency was to act on the decision for 120 days. That safe h...

Commentators are contemplating the possibility of a Democratic trifecta in Pennsylvania for the first time since 1993

Household water bills are increasing faster than inflation and income, according to a new analysis.

The Democratic effort builds on regular election protection methods and incorporates practices and procedures that grew out of the effort to document ICE agents’ actions during the immigration surge in Minnesota this year.

Speakers at the rally were critical of Shapiro for his initial embrace of Amazon and other tech companies as they scoped out sites. The development guidelines that now encompass much of the commonwealth’s data center policy are too little, too late, they said.

An Eastern Pennsylvania developer wants to build a 1-gigawatt data center campus and natural gas plant in rural Elizabeth Township at a former landfill site.

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Speakers at the rally were critical of Shapiro for his initial embrace of Amazon and other tech companies as they scoped out sites. The development guidelines that now encompass much of the commonwealth’s data center policy are too little, too late, they said.

Facing a surge of measles cases in New York state’s rural counties, Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul issued an executive order allowing paramedics, pharmacists, midwives and other non-physicians to admini...

President Donald Trump wants to curtail mail ballots, but with Republicans falling behind in the polls, the president is now urging his supporters to vote in the midterm elections any way they can, in...

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

WPSU began as a radio station in 1953 and added television service in 1965.

The federal government is seeking to sell two warehouse in Pennsylvania that were purchased for use as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, along with five other warehouses nationa...

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Pennsylvania’s election code already prohibits police from being within 100 feet of polling places.

The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

The Senate Leadership Fund is diverting money to Kansas, which has become a growing concern for the party as it seeks to hold its majority.

Jobs across the United States rose by 29,000 in September, a disappointing result as recent growth was also revised down in Friday’s monthly jobs report.

A court battle that began when conservative-led states sued to block protections for transgender people has ended in a rollback of protections for people with disabilities.

William Dahlberg said the “nail in the coffin” for his decision to leave was the expectation that the station follow the state's new Gulf of America law.

District attorneys sent more people to state prison during election years than in other years during the height of the nation’s “tough on crime” era.

A new poll sheds light on how young men and women are shaped by certain historical moments and tend to diverge on issues of gender and reproductive rights

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Nearly 100 community-based organizations have lost their federal HIV-prevention grants as the Trump administration redirects dollars.