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Lawmakers who voted against the omnibus spending package secured $3 billion worth of earmarks, a CQ Roll Call tally found.

2 years after Kentucky’s first COVID-19 vaccines, doctors continue to urge people to get vaxxed

PHILADELPHIA — More than six decades after the badly bruised body of a young boy was found in a cardboard box in Philadelphia’s Fox Chase section, police Thursday announced the long-sought identity of the boy — finally naming “America’s Unknown Child” and providing some closure in what police say is…

The race for the House Ways and Means Committee chairmanship remains close as contenders prepare to make their final pitches.

​House Democrats on Tuesday elected Pennsylvania Rep. Brendan F. Boyle to lead the caucus on the Budget Committee next Congress.

After 65 years, police have identified the remains of a boy whose body was found in a box by the side of a road

Just as it’s a good idea to child-proof a home before having toddlers over for a birthday party, congressional Democrats should be doing what they can during the current lame-duck session to prepare for the incoming Republican House majority — a crowd that has literally announced its intention to threaten…

Texans will chair some powerful committees in the House, but their roles in top leadership elections last week were more often as anti-establishment voices than contenders.

A judge said Tyrell Morton "of all people" should have known the dangers of knife crime, as his uncle was stabbed to death

House Republicans will face their biggest tests of unity in the next Congress on fiscal issues, including the debt ceiling.

PHILADELPHIA — Three of the teens accused of shooting five young football players, killing one, outside Roxborough High School in September are expected to be charged with murder in connection with another fatal shooting the day before, police said Friday.