The Chicago Teachers Union is facing a federal probe over allegations of missing audits. The U.S. House Committee on ...

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Defending Texas sovereignty has been central to Abbott’s political identity. Yet he has helped Trump erode states’ authority ...

Luzerne County’s Nov. 4 general election was officially put to rest Monday with the Election Board’s certification of the results.

Rep. Lloyd K. Smucker, the favorite to become the next top Republican on the House Budget Committee, is eyeing a second ...

POULTRY POLITICS: What’s typically a feather-light White House tradition turned into something closer to a Chicago crime ...

Just last year, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott joined a bipartisan chorus of governors in denouncing a Biden administration plan they ...

Seven residents elected to the Government Study Commission(GSC) in Newville, held their first organizational meeting Monday, Nov. 24 at the borough building on South High Street to select officers, hi ...