Politics

Vice President Mike Pence joined a conservative chorus blasting Chief Justice John Roberts over recent Supreme Court decisions, calling the George W. Bush appointee a “disappointment to conservatives.”  President Donald Trump’s No. 2 said in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network he has respect for the Supreme Court as an institu...

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is pushing back at Republican assertions that he should take a cognitive test to disprove President Donald Trump’s claim that Biden isn’t fit for the Oval Office

Republicans remain split with Democrats, and even among other Republicans, on spending for the bill outlining a second round of relief from the coronavirus pandemic. House leaders say they are hoping for a deal by Friday and a vote by next week.

President Trump is taking heat for telling an interviewer that the rising death toll from COVID-19 “is what it is,” in an interview with Axios on HBO. “They are dying, that’s true. And it is what it is. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t doing everything we can,” he says.

With three months before the presidential election, Joe Biden’s campaign is planning a new advertising push in Pennsylvania and more than a dozen other states as it pursues what it says is a strategy to create “multiple pathways” to get enough electoral votes to win the White House.

Joe Biden leads most national polls, but the popular vote doesn’t pick our president. Instead, NBCLX’s Noah Pransky digs into other trendlines revealed by polling for some better indicators of how November could turn out…including the biggest threat to Gen Z voters.

Pennsylvania’s education secretary announced Tuesday he will be leaving the job later this year to take another position, as schools throughout the state are scrambling to develop and implement pandemic reopening plans.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. could be investigating President Donald Trump and his company for possible insurance and bank fraud, the prosecutor’s office revealed Monday in a new court filing. In the filing, Vance’s office urged a federal judge to toss out Trump’s new legal effort to prevent prosecutors from getting his tax...

More members of the Republican party are speaking out against President Donald Trump and urging people to vote for Joe Biden. Political analysts say the GOP defections are happening at an unusually high rate.

Pennsylvania will pay the cost of postage for voters to mail in ballots in November’s general election

A Pennsylvania man who was convicted of threatening President Donald Trump and a district attorney has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

A government oversight group says President Donald Trump’s reelection effort is hiding nearly $170 million in spending from mandatory public disclosure by routing payments through companies tied to his former campaign manager

A county council in Delaware has enacted a measure that bans county police officers from using kneeholds, and bars the use of chokeholds except for in situations where deadly force is warranted.