Sen. Pat Toomey warned Tuesday that a Democratic threat to allow all Bush-era tax cuts to expire next year would plunge the nation into a needless recession. Mr. Toomey, a key Republican member of the so-called super committee that grappled with budget ...
HARRISBURG -- The state Supreme Court has denied suspended Justice Joan Orie Melvin's request for an out-of-county judge to hear her political corruption case. The court issued an order Tuesday denying a request by Justice Melvin to keep Allegheny County ...
Not long ago, law enforcement officials would present a phone company with a search warrant, court order or formal subpoena when requesting information from a person's private phone records. Not anymore. Today, according to information obtained by Congress ...
The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case over whether a young girl's out-of-court statements were properly admitted in her father's child rape case, when the girl had previously been determined incompetent to testify. A split state Superior Court ...
The U.S. House of Representatives will soon be considering legislation sponsored by Rep. Darrell Issa and Rep. Dennis Ross that proposes to "cure" the U.S. Postal Service's financial woes by dismantling the 235-year-old institution. HR 2309 would end ...
HARRISBURG -- Democrats mounted a new challenge Friday in state Supreme Court to a Republican-drawn map of Pennsylvania's legislative districts, after challenges to a prior plan six months ago won a stunning victory from the divided high court and forced ...
After the reassessment section was added to Senate Bill 1546 last week, it was stripped out a day later in the Senate Rules Committee, over objections from Minority Leader Jay Costa, D-Forest Hills. His Republican counterpart, Majority Leader Dominic ...
The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision upholding the Affordable Care Act gives new significance to then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi's prophetic assertion that congressional Democrats had to pass Obamacare before we could find out what is in it. Now that the bill is law ...
TOKYO – The unpopular government of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda suffered another setback on Monday when the largest faction of his governing Democratic Party quit in protest over a proposed tax increase, leaving the party barely in control of ...
WASHINGTON -- Once a month, a group of staff members from the House and Senate intelligence committees drives across the Potomac River to CIA headquarters in Virginia, assembles in a secure room and begins the grim task of watching videos of the latest ...
