Pithy vacation items

Three news outlets are telling a federal court that the White House is defying a judge's orders by refusing to let them return to covering President Donald Trump.

Earlier this year, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that Daniel J. Sullivan, who shares a first and last name with incumbent Dan S. Sullivan, could stay on the ballot.

Ballot-stacking tactics are common in politics and generally considered legal — and have been employed by both parties in Alaska.

Judge David O. Carter wrote that the administration’s demand for urgent action “would wreak havoc and disrupt the election that is already underway."

In the past few months, at least nine of 15 Cabinet secretaries and several other senior Trump deputies have been formally accused of Hatch Act violations.

Their efforts have aimed to erode this double standard and make it easier to hold men accountable for sexual assault.

The videos demonstrate how foreign adversaries continue to use a familiar playbook to try to influence American voters who are deciding which party controls Congress next year.

It’s a crime in Brazil for a political candidate to accept funding or other campaign assistance from a foreign source.

Democrats need to pick up four seats to retake the Senate, and the party has a clear lead in just one Republican-held state.

Across the country this election season, taxing the richest Americans is the solution many Democrats are offering for a host of middle-class problems.

Conservative pioneers in the 1970s revealed that incendiary direct mail targeting specific slices of the electorate and arousing their emotions could motivate voters and raise funds.

Four competitive races are neck-and-neck as the candidates launch last-minute attacks and spend big before Election Day. Democrats appear to have the momentum.

The cease-and-desist is the second time in two weeks a candidate in the race has called on the other to take down an ad.

The condemnation of Bezos by his most famous employee is one of the headlines from “Secrets,” the long-awaited memoir of his 55 years in journalism to be published Nov. 24.

Katharine Bement Davis fought outdated laws by studying American women's sexual practices and knowledge.

Nearly 600 high-profile, right-wing social media accounts, podcasts and other online media have published more than 7,000 statements questioning the election’s integrity this year, an analysis found.

Ethan Young, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Pennsylvanian, is one of six people who sued President Donald Trump over banning of journalists from the White House.

The Justice Department plans to deploy 1,000 election monitors nationwide, including to polling stations in Philadelphia, Allegheny, Luzerne, and Lehigh Counties.

Republicans are on pace to lose the two U.S. House seats they flipped just two years ago, according to a new Inquirer/New York Times/Siena University poll.

As Día de los Muertos approaches, pan de muerto has started to pop up on menus and bakery shelves.

No one else so celebrated the possibilities of what we could bring into being if we just got off the sidewalk and walked into history together, writes Sabrina Vourvoulias.

Suigo is back in his home country for the first time since he moved to Villanova. The 7-foot-3 center, who will have family and friends in attendance on Sunday, is enjoying it.

This is slated to be the longest rain-less period in Philly in two years.

Philly's circular window to the world will stay open, but details about the new arrangement remain scant.

Several players on the Lincoln football team grew up in Philadelphia. Friday night's matchup with Virginia Union will serve as a homecoming and an opportunity for the school to gain exposure.