Politics
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Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, to track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the United States, according to an agreement obtained by The Associated Press.
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Vance touts tax breaks in Pennsylvania as he makes White House’s first big pitch on Trump’s new law
Vice President JD Vance made the Trump administration’s first big pitch to sell the public on President Donald Trump’s sweeping budget-and-policy package in the swing political turf of northeastern Pennsylvania.
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What potential funding cuts to NPR, PBS will mean in Pennsylvania
A House vote is all that stands in the way of President Trump’s effort to claw back more than $1 billion in funding to the public radio and television stations that serve Pennsylvania’s biggest cities and smallest rural communities.
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Pennsylvania unions embrace Josh Shapiro; shun GOP opposition
Union leaders say they will continue to back Gov. Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania governor’s race.
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Shapiro joins lawsuit to claw back education funding withheld by Trump administration
Pennsylvania joined 23 other states and the District of Columbia in challenging what they call the federal government’s unlawful withholding of funding for after-school programs, teacher training, literacy, and education for migrant and non-English speaking students.
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Pa House passes budget bill; ‘still much work to do,’ Senate Republicans say
The proposal House Democrats sent to the Senate would cut spending by about $900 million
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Creating deepfakes with malicious intent will soon be a crime in Pennsylvania
Gov. Josh Shapiro signed legislation to classify deepfakes in Pennsylvania as digital forgeries, making non-consensual digital impersonation punishable by law.
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The challenger who narrowly lost to GOP Rep. Scott Perry wants another chance to beat him in 2026
Democrat Janelle Stelson, who lost to Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Perry by barely a percentage point in 2024, will run again in the right-leaning congressional district in Pennsylvania.
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ICE officers detaining Lehigh County residents sparks fear
ICE officers are detaining and arresting immigrants at the Lehigh County Courthouse, angering local residents.
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200,000 Pennie customers may lose health care coverage thanks to Trump’s budget bill
Provisions in President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill may cost Pennsylvanians their health care through Pennie, the state’s official marketplace.
