Politics

Vice President Kamala Harris is preparing to make a stop in Montgomery County this week to talk to voters as former President Donald Trump makes his way to New Jersey. NBC10 political reporter Lauren Mayk has more. 

Adult film star Stormy Daniels testified in former president Donald Trump’s hush money trial about the sexual encounter she said she had with him back in 2006 and the money she was paid to keep quiet years later. Her testimony prompted Trump’s attorney to call for a mistrial. NBC10’s Lauren Mayk explains further.

If Donald Trump keeps trying the patience of the judge presiding over his hush money trial, the former president could wind up back in his home New York City borough of Queens — specifically the prison on Rikers Island, experts said Monday.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Friday set a July primary and a September general election to fill the Newark-based U.S. House seat that opened after Rep. Donald Payne Jr.’s recent death. Murphy signed a writ of election, required under state law. The July 16 primary will be about a month after the state’s regularly scheduled June 4...

Senate Republicans are returning to a strategy they hope could neutralize their Democratic rivals’ financial edge: Find rich people to run. But wealthy candidates running in Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin present a fresh set of challenges.

The fine Monday marks the second sanction for Trump for inflammatory comments about witnesses since the start of the trial last month.

Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina on Sunday did not directly answer multiple questions about whether he’d accept the results of the 2024 presidential election, regardless of who wins.

In the latest episode of Battleground Politics, Lauren Mayk spoke with Pennsylvania voters as President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump came to town. They spoke about abortion, the economy, immigration, Trump’s criminal trial, the Israel-Hamas War and who they plan to vote for. Lauren also spoke with Villanova University pollical scienc...

During a weeklong stretch in mid-April, former President Donald Trump came to the Lehigh Valley two days before his criminal trial began while President Joe Biden made three stops in Pennsylvania, including in Philadelphia. In the latest episode of Battleground Politics, Lauren Mayk spoke with Pennsylvania voters as the candidates came to town....

Members of the Israeli-American Council descended on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus on Thursday morning, to call on school officials to end the ongoing protest over the war in Gaza.

President Joe Biden said Thursday peaceful protests are “the best tradition of how Americans respond to controversial issues” but stressed that the United States is not a lawless country.

Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives is advancing legislation long sought by counties seeking help to manage huge influxes of mail-in ballots during elections in the presidential battleground state. The bill passed on party lines Wednesday, 102-99, as Democrats backed it and Republicans opposed it, warning that it would open the door to fraud. U...

Philadelphia public schools face challenges with their facilities and low test scores. Mayor Cherelle Parker addressed the City Council Tuesday morning in regard to her plans to support the school district despite only eight of her nine nominations for school board being accepted. NBC10’s Lauren Mayk has the details.