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Pennsylvania state lawmakers are returning to session Monday with a big June agenda and sharp differences over the future of the state’s finances, schools, energy sector and election procedures.

Pennsylvania businesses are reopening without any capacity limits on Monday, which has many restaurants and other gathering places optimistic. NBC10’s Miguel Martinez-Valle reports.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner defeated Carlos Vega in the Democratic primary on Tuesday. NBC10’s Lauren Mayk analyzes what his win means for city politics and also speaks with the Republican who plans to challenge Krasner, Charles Peruto.

Two Philadelphia judges have been picked by Democratic voters as the party’s nominees to run for open seats on two different statewide appellate courts in November.

New state figures show Democrats outraised Republicans, and incumbents hauled in more than challengers in New Jersey’s legislative primary contest set for next month

NBC10’s Randy Gyllenhaal reports on the lifting of many COVID capacity restrictions in New Jersey on Wednesday. Other parts of the Philadelphia rea will follow suit in the days and weeks ahead.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and his Democratic challenger Carlos Vega cast their votes in the Pennsylvania primary on Tuesday. NBC10’s Miguel Martinez-Valle reports.

NBC10’s Randy Gyllenhaal reports on the final push by District Attorney Larry Krasner and his Democratic challenger Carlos Vega to get voters to the polls for Tuesday’s primary election.

Three hundred years ago, humanity’s most prevalent form of government was absolute power. Kings, sultants and emperors were free. Those they ruled over, the people, were not. As civilization became more educated, people began demanding a voice. Democracy decentralized authority and gave people a say in their governance. But as rulers became representatives, they learned they could recentralize their...

Is it possible to have a government that isn’t driven by ideological differences? Examples in North America alone, including one state house in the U.S., show that government bodies can be designed to avoid political parties and encourage cooperation. NBCLX storyteller Peter Hull takes a closer look at the possibilities of decentralized government.

Now that President Joe Biden is on the verge of his first big legislative victory, a key moderate Democrat says he may be open to changing Senate rules that could allow for more party-line votes to push through the White House’s agenda.

A suburban Philadelphia man who said he was stressed over losing his family, the coronavirus shutdown and the “theft of the election” acknowledged firing three shots into a local Democratic Party office on Inauguration Day, prosecutors said.

The outcome of former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial may seem preordained, but the trial itself matters.

Former U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III says he has no plans to run for office again anytime soon and has instead launched a new project aimed, in part, at supporting political races considered “unwinnable” by the Democratic Party.

A day before Pennsylvania state lawmakers will be sworn in for a new two-year session, state Senate Democrats accused Republicans of trying to “steal” an election by objecting to letting one of their members take his seat

State Sen. Jim Brewster, a western Pennsylvania Democrat, won his election by a narrow margin, but state Republicans are refusing to swear him into office over a mail-in ballot dispute.

Nancy Pelosi has been narrowly reelected as House speaker

Progressives are pressuring President-elect Joe Biden to embrace their policy solutions to major issues

Former Vice President Joe Biden won the state of Pennsylvania Saturday, according to NBC News projection, putting him over the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.

Their majority shrunk, House Democrats are casting blame.