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Judge rules Washington County mail-in ballot policy violated voting rights
The Washington County Board of Elections must notify voters when their mail-in ballots have errors and give them the chance to vote provisionally, a judge has ruled. A group of seven voters sued the county in July, alleging that a board policy passed a few months earlier that prohibited elections...
Supreme Court rebuffs Biden administration plea to restore multibillion-dollar student debt plan
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday kept on hold the latest multibillion-dollar plan from the Biden administration that would have lowered payments for millions of borrowers, while lawsuits make their way through lower courts. The justices rejected an administration request to put most of it back into effect. It...
‘No second shooter’ at Trump rally, FBI says
The FBI said Wednesday that federal investigators have not identified a motive or found evidence of a second shooter in the July 13 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump during a rally in Butler County. “All the rounds have been accounted for. We have zero reason to believe there...
Having a family is expensive. Here’s what Harris and Trump have said about easing costs
WASHINGTON — The high cost of caring for children and the elderly has forced women out of the workforce, devastated family finances and left professional caretakers in low-wage jobs — all while slowing economic growth. That families are suffering is not up for debate. As the economy emerges as a...
Kamala Harris’ election would defy history. Just 1 sitting VP has been elected president since 1836
NEW YORK — As Vice President Kamala Harris begins her fall campaign for the White House, she can look to history and hope for better luck than others in her position who have tried the same. Since 1836, only one sitting vice president, George H.W. Bush in 1988, has been...
Opponents stage protests against Florida state parks development plans pushed by DeSantis
DUNEDIN, Fla. — Opponents of a plan pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis to build golf courses, hotels, pickleball courts and other development at Florida state parks staged protests Tuesday at several sites as pressure builds against the proposal. The Republican governor’s Department of Environmental Protection revealed the plans last week...
Deluzio, Fetterman roll out ‘Make Stuff Here’ agenda to help Dems reclaim working-class voters
As the presidential campaigns battle for the votes of Pennsylvania’s working class, U.S. Sen. John Fetterman and U.S. Rep. Chris Deluzio are trying to help Democrats maintain their historic appeal to this crucial bloc and win back disaffected voters. The two Western Pennsylvania Democrats from Braddock and Aspinwall, respectively, held...
Harris, Biden to campaign in Pittsburgh on Labor Day
Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden are coming to Pittsburgh on Labor Day as part of a barnstorming blitz by Democrats across battleground states. Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, is joining Biden for the first time on the campaign trail since he dropped out of the race...
Washington County violated voters’ rights by concealing mail-in ballot rejections, court rules
Election officials in Washington County must provide voters who vote by mail notice if their ballot will not be counted because of a paperwork error and allow them to cast a provisional ballot on election day, a county judge has ruled. Washington County Judge Brandon P. Neuman granted an injunction...
Harris campaign releases a new ad to highlight plans to build 3 million homes and reduce inflation
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris has a new advertising push to draw attention to her plan to build 3 million new homes over four years, a move designed to contain inflationary pressures that also draws a sharp contrast to Republican Donald Trump’s approach. Harris, the Democratic nominee for president,...
Tulsi Gabbard, who ran for 2020 Democratic nomination, endorses Trump against former foe Harris
Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has endorsed Donald Trump’s presidential bid, furthering her shift away from the party she sought to represent four years ago and linking herself to the GOP nominee’s critiques of Vice President Kamala Harris and the chaotic Afghanistan War withdrawal. Appearing Monday with Trump in Detroit,...
Zuckerberg says the White House pressured Facebook over some covid-19 content during the pandemic
WASHINGTON — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says senior Biden administration officials pressured Facebook to “censor” some covid-19 content during the pandemic and vowed that the social media giant would push back if it faced such demands again. In a letter to Rep. Jim Jordan, the Republican chair of the House...
Vance to speak Wednesday in Erie
U.S. Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, plans to hold a rally Wednesday afternoon in Erie. The visit by the Ohio politician, announced Monday, will take place two days before former President Donald Trump, the GOP’s nominee for president, will appear in Johnstown. At the Erie event, Vance...
Slow, steady, bipartisan: Facts, not fiction, guide Rep. Mike Kelly in Trump shooting probe
Controversial claims and conspiracy theories have proliferated in the six weeks since the July 13 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. On Monday, the conservative Heritage Foundation hosted an event at which some Republican lawmakers claimed the Secret Service might have been criminally negligent and pushed the notion that...
Harris and Trump squabble over muted mics at upcoming debate
The campaigns of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are arguing in advance of their high-stakes Sept. 10 debate over whether microphones should be muted except for the candidate whose turn it is to speak. While it’s common for campaigns to quibble beforehand over debate mechanics, both...
Trump to rally Friday in Johnstown
Former President Donald Trump will return to Western Pennsylvania on Friday to rally with supporters in Johnstown, his first visit back to the region since an assassination attempt injured him last month in Butler County. Trump is scheduled to speak late Friday afternoon at 1st Summit Arena in downtown Johnstown....
Trump would veto legislation establishing a federal abortion ban, Vance says
NEW YORK — Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance says Donald Trump would not support a national abortion ban if elected president and would veto such legislation if it landed on his desk. “I can absolutely commit that,” Vance said when asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press” whether he could...
She’s the sitting vice president. She’s the candidate of change. How Harris is having it both ways
WASHINGTON — She’s the sitting vice president who has been in office for 3 1/2 years. She’s also the presidential candidate of just five weeks promising a “new way forward.” Kamala Harris is having it both ways as she hits the campaign trail after the Democratic National Convention, taking credit...
Trump is expected to tie Harris to chaotic Afghanistan War withdrawal on 3rd anniversary of attack
Former President Donald Trump on Monday is expected to tie Vice President Kamala Harris to the chaotic Afghanistan War withdrawal on the third anniversary of the suicide bombing that killed 13 service members. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, is expected to visit Arlington National Cemetery to pay his respects to...
Legendary rock band battling Donald Trump, backing Kamala Harris
The Foo Fighters and Donald Trump’s campaign went into the weekend going rounds, and it doesn’t look like there will any love lost when the dust has settled. The conflict began when the former president used the band’s “My Hero” when he brought former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy...
Behind the rhetoric, a presidential campaign is a competition about how to tell the American story
NEW YORK — Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic nomination “on behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on Earth.” America, Barack Obama thundered, “is ready for a better story.” JD Vance insisted that the Biden administration “is not the end of our story,” and...
Path to the presidency: Keys to victory for Harris and Trump
The parties are over. Now it’s time for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump to get down to business. With this year’s Democratic and Republican national conventions in the history books, both sides have wrapped up their warm-up acts and are now plunging into an intense stretch of politicking ahead of...
The ‘joyful’ Democratic convention is over. The real test for Kamala Harris’ campaign now begins
CHICAGO — Over and over, from the massive stage in the electric convention hall, the Democrats this week predicted Kamala Harris would defeat Donald Trump. They described her as a historic figure, the embodiment of hope, “the president of joy.” But amid the extraordinary optimism, former first lady Michelle Obama...
A ‘flood of ads’: Pa. residents face barrage of political messaging
Political ads are back as an unavoidable part of everyday life in Pennsylvania. On television, they air in 30-second spots during sporting events, late night talk shows, newscasts, daytime soaps and nighttime dramas. While streaming shows or surfing the web, viewers see candidates from both major political parties and special...
Cornel West can’t be on Pennsylvania’s presidential ballot, court decides
HARRISBURG — Independent presidential candidate Cornel West lost a legal challenge Friday in his bid to get on the ballot in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. Commonwealth Court Judge Renee Cohn Jubelirer, in a 15-page opinion, sided with the Secretary of State’s office under Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro in rejecting...
