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After more than 130 days without a state budget, Pennsylvania lawmakers have finally reached an agreement.
The sale of Dominion Voting Systems — the election technology company that Trump allies aggressively targeted with false claims about the 2020 election — took state and local election officials by surprise last week.
A two-hour state Senate committee hearing explored the use of artificial intelligence to create images and videos depicting children — sometimes real, sometimes “synthetic” — in sexually suggestive poses or acts.
The polls for the 2025 municipal election are closed and the initial vote count has been released. Military/overseas and provisional ballots are yet to be counted, but winners have been proclaimed and concessions have been made.
Gov. Josh Shapiro and the leaders of all four legislative caucuses met in person several days this week amid a four-month budget impasse that is creating increasingly dire consequences across Pennsylvania.
All three of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices who sought reelection Tuesday will get another term, ensuring Democratic jurists keep their majority on the presidential battleground state’s highest court — one at the center of pivotal fights over voting rights, redistricting and elections.
Control of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court hangs in the balance in statewide elections next week, when voters will cast ballots on judges for the state’s three highest courts. Voters across the commonwealth will also vote in municipal elections, including high-profile races in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.
A draft proposal calls for $62 million – less than one-sixth of monthly benefits received by Pennsylvanians.
The Pennsylvania Association for Justice (PAJ) today testified in front of the Senate State Government Committee regarding Senate Bill 125 (SB 125), a Joint Resolution proposing amendments to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania removing from the Judicial Branch the power to determine lawsuit venue and placing this power into the hands of the Legislature.
