Congress certified President-elect Joe Biden’s presidential victory early Thursday morning after a chaotic day of violent insurrection by supporters of President Donald Trump attempting to halt election proceedings. A shaken Congress formalized November’s results after midnight after beating back challenges to Electoral College vote totals in Pennsylvania and Arizona. After hours of suspended activity in […]

WASHINGTON – Protesters backing President Donald Trump breached the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in violent clashes with police that force a delay in the constitutional process to affirm Joe Biden’s victory in the November election. Trump had urged his supporters to come to Washington to protest Congress’ formal approval of Biden’s win. Several Republican lawmakers have backed […]

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Members of Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation are sharing their experiences after a scary day at the U.S. Capitol, as mobs of President Donald Trump supporters breached the building. Capitol Police evacuated lawmakers from the floor of the Capitol, where Congress was set to count the Electoral College votes. The president and his supporters […]

By 6abc Digital Staff and Christie Ileto PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Lawmakers across the Delaware Valley are speaking out after rioters supporting President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday as a joint session was confirming the Electoral College for President-elect Joe Biden. The nation’s elected representatives scrambled to crouch under desks and donned gas marks, while police […]

by John L. Micek In a flurry of activity Monday, the majority-Democrat U.S. House voted to override President Donald Trump’s veto of a $741 billion defense appropriations bill, even as it handed the lame duck Republican a hollow win by voting to approve $2,000 stimulus payments for most Americans. In all, 44 Republicans crossed over […]

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Despite President Trump’s signing of the $900 billion COVID-19 relief package Sunday, Congressional lawmakers continue to battle over whether the bill goes far enough. The House of Representatives voted Monday evening to pass the bill to increase the $600 stimulus checks to $2,000. The bill now heads to the Senate. The amended […]

by Jonathan Tamari WASHINGTON — Democrats will soon get what they’ve long dreamed of: President Donald Trump will leave the White House. But even once President-elect Joe Biden takes office next month, many of their other hopes face extremely difficult roads to reality. Biden will come to power with the smallest House majority in modern history, and will […]

By Ganesh Setty, CNN For 843 days, Oneita and Clive Thompson took sanctuary in two Philadelphia churches to escape Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Daily life was constrained within the humble walls of the First United Methodist Church of Germantown, and later the Tabernacle United Church downtown. They ate, bathed, and slept cloistered inside the churches, […]

by Michael Klein Conor Murphy has left the general manager’s post at Reading Terminal Market, six months after signing on at the outset of the pandemic. Describing the departure blandly as “parted ways,” the nonprofit market’s board issued a statement Thursday night praising Murphy as “a visionary and a creative talent,” while acknowledging that “as […]

by Karen Bojar Philadelphia NOW, Pennsylvania NOW and the Philadelphia Commission for Women sponsored a well-attended Dec. 6 virtual Town Hall on HB 40, which would establish a U.S. congressional commission to study and develop proposals for reparations for African-Americans. Reparations are sometime seen as a political impossibility, but as Philadelphia NOW President Vanessa Fields […]