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HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania lawmakers have passed a $50.1 billion budget that makes additional investments in public schools, creates a new tax credit for lower-income people, and ends the state’s participation in a climate program. The bills that made up the final package won bipartisan approval in the state House and...

WASHINGTON -President Donald Trump is committed to providing Americans a $2,000 check using money that has come into government coffers from Trump’s tariffs, the White House said on Wednesday. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Trump’s staff is exploring how to go about making the plan a...

From the rolling hills of Western Pennsylvania to distant corners of the globe, TribLive’s Photo Adventure captures the world in motion — one frame at a time. Through the lenses of photographers near and far, these images tell stories of place, connection, and the beauty found in everyday life. It’s...

WASHINGTON — House Democrats on Wednesday released emails which they said raised new questions about President Donald Trump’s relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and how much he knew about his abuse of underage girls — an assertion the White House blasted as a “fake narrative.” The Democrats cite...

The penny, the United States’ iconic one-cent coin whose copper face and everyman symbolism endeared it to millions of Americans before it fell into change-drawer obscurity, died on Nov. 12, 2025. It was 232 years old. In its heyday it was ubiquitous, an American avatar of grit, humility and thrift....

CAIRO/GAZA — Mohammed Wael Helles, 14, has been waiting for surgery on a serious spinal injury caused by an Israeli airstrike for nearly two months, one of thousands of Gazans waiting for urgent treatment in Gaza’s battered health system. Helles was a top student with aspirations of becoming a doctor...

DUBAI — Iran is grappling with its worst water crisis in decades, with officials warning that Tehran — a city of more than 10 million — may soon be uninhabitable if the drought gripping the country continues. President Masoud Pezeshkian has cautioned that if rainfall does not arrive by December,...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Tuesday warned that flight disruptions could skyrocket in the coming days if the House of Representatives does not vote to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Ongoing government-mandated flight cancellations and severe weather in parts of the country wreaked havoc on air travel....

WASHINGTON - Legislation moving through Congress that would end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history would also allow eight Republican senators to seek hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for alleged privacy violations stemming from the Biden administration’s investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The bill,...

NEW YORK/NEWARK — In Newark’s heavily Latino Ironbound district, Rosa Ludena works the register of the electronics shop she’s owned since 2003. A wall of phone cases appears on display behind her, but few shoppers are around to buy them. Traffic has slowed, and some of her customers have told...

Israel’s defense minister said on Wednesday he planned to close publicly funded Army Radio in what he described as an attempt to preserve the military’s nonpartisan character, but the decision was denounced by the station’s chief as a blow to press freedom. The minister, Israel Katz, said in a statement...

HARRISBURG — Billions of dollars for Pennsylvania’s public schools and social services could soon start flowing after months of delay, as lawmakers on Wednesday took up a roughly $50 billion spending plan to break the state’s budget impasse. Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro was expected to sign key budget bills by...

With no big winner in Tuesday night’s Mega Millions drawing, the game’s jackpot will jump to at least $965 million for Friday’s game. The pot was $900 million for Tuesday’s drawing. It marks the eighth largest jackpot since the Mega Millions game began in 2002. The highest jackpot winner this...

President Donald Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for at least $1 billion over its airing of what he says was a deceptively edited documentary, but the case could hinge on whether anyone in Florida watched it online and felt misled. If that hurdle is cleared, a U.S. court...

WASHINGTON -The House of Representatives will try to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history on Wednesday, with a vote on a stopgap funding package to restart disrupted food assistance, pay hundreds of thousands of federal workers and revive a hobbled air-traffic control system. Republicans currently hold a narrow...

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has received a letter from President Donald Trump urging him to consider granting a pardon to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Herzog’s office said on Wednesday. Netanyahu has been facing a long-running corruption trial, and Trump has repeatedly asked for a pardon for his close ally. Netanyahu...

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to throw out a jury’s finding in a civil lawsuit that he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her. Trump’s lawyers argued in a lengthy filing...

Veterans Day, originally known as Armistice Day, is observed annually on Nov. 11. The day is dedicated to thanking and honoring all individuals who served honorably in the military, in wartime or peacetime, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. A federal holiday since 1954, Veterans Day was created...

For the past decade, Dr. Heather Hirsch has tried to convince women that hormone therapy drugs are the best way to treat symptoms of menopause and perimenopause. But warning labels on estrogen have scared many women away from getting the care they need. Now the Food and Drug Administration is...

The operators of Camp Mystic in Texas, where 25 girls and two teenage counselors died in catastrophic flooding on July 4, failed to take necessary steps to protect the campers as life-threatening floodwaters approached, families of the victims allege in a lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed Monday in state court in...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, long one of his strongest MAGA allies, has “lost her way” after the Georgia Republican congresswoman criticized the president for focusing too much on foreign policy. “I don’t know what happened to Marjorie,” Trump told reporters Monday in the Oval...

President Donald Trump is again teasing a check to the American people, but it is unlikely to happen. “People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS!” Trump said on Truth Social on Sunday. “A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone.”...

The leader of one of the nation’s largest progressive political organizing groups called for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s resignation following Sunday’s vote to reopen the federal government without any guarantee that Republicans will extend expiring federal health insurance subsidies. Schumer of New York was not among the eight members...

Authorities in Arizona confirmed that a man died after slipping and falling over the edge at a popular tourist area at Grand Canyon West last week. Deputies with the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office responded to a search and rescue at Guano Point on Thursday around 2 p.m. local time, per...