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After the Supreme Court removed the constitutional right to abortion, some states have outlawed it.

Volunteer baker Alicia Calabrace’s chocolate crinkle cookies are among more than 1,000 dozen cookies slated to be distributed Sunday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Uvalde. The cookies, which will be accompanied by cards, books, and stuffed animals, are from the Wedding Cookie Table Community based in Monongahela, Pennsylvania. A group with ties to Monongahela,

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The military says that remains exhumed from a U.S. Army base in Pennsylvania do not belong to the Native American teenager recorded to have been buried there more than a century ago.

The fate of the Democratic Party is intertwined in a pair of Pennsylvania elections that’ll be closely watched this year.

World swimming’s governing body has effectively banned transgender women from competing in women’s events.

The Supreme Court seems poised to take on a new elections case being pressed by Republicans.

The multi-million-dollar summer ads will focus on protecting vulnerable Senate Democrats in crucial battleground states with attacks on Republican candidates.

Dozens of Republican candidates who sought Donald Trump’s endorsement have spent months parroting the former president's baseless claims of 2020 election fraud.

Young workers were also allowed to work too many hours in Pennsylvania, officials said.

The FBI either lied about having video of the dig, or destroyed the footage to prevent a father-son team of treasure hunters from gaining access to it, an attorney claims.

Ex-AG Bill Barr testified before House January 6 investigators that Trump's voter fraud claims in Pennsylvania made no sense.

A lawyer for a father-son team of treasure hunters is accusing the FBI of either lying to a federal judge about having video of its 2018 dig for legendary Civil War-era gold, or illegally destroying the video.

The Pennsylvania Republican nominee for governor who's pushed Donald Trump's election lies has appointed Trump's former campaign lawyer as a senior legal adviser to his campaign.

Many of the nation’s most vulnerable Democrats are actively trying to distance themselves from Washington — and their party — as the midterm season enters its next phase.

"We have that tape of Trump saying to [Georgia's] Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger...just find 11,780 votes that don't exist," Norm Eisen said.

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The boycott calls stem from James Martin's support for Doug Mastriano, a right-wing candidate for Pennsylvania governor.

The Jan. 6 House select committee made the allegation in a hearing Thursday night.

Bucks County, a suburb near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has an ample supply of swing voters — they've sent Republicans and Democrats to Congress.

OSHA is investigating after two workers became trapped inside a chocolate-filled tank at a Mars Wrigley factory in Elizabethtown, Pa.

The sense of urgency surrounding the court’s action fell off last week, when Republican Senate candidate David McCormick conceded to rival Mehmet Oz.

The Supreme Court is allowing elections officials to count mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania that lack a handwritten date but were received in time.

The Supreme Court is allowing elections officials to count mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania that lack a handwritten date but were received in time. Last week, Alito had imposed a temporary hold on counting the ballots to give the justices more time to consider the matter. At the time, former hedge fund CEO David McCormick was locked in a tight contest with celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination.

The outcome isn't very surprising, since David McCormick conceded last week.

Dr. Mehmet Oz has won Pennsylvania's Republican U.S. Senate primary after a dayslong recount.

Doug Mastriano, Pennsylvania's Republican nominee for governor, wants every voter in the state to re-register to vote. Critics believe the move is intended to keep minority communities from voting.

Toomey, along with Sen. Joe Manchin, put forth legislation nearly a decade ago that would expand background checks.

The shootings in Philadelphia; Chattanooga, Tenn. and Clarendon County, S.C., left at least seven people dead and nearly three dozen others injured.

MCCormick concedes primary

Representative Adam Schiff, Senator Pat Toomey, Dr. Walter J. Koroshetz and more appear on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" this Sunday.

Fetterman will compete in the general against either Trump-backed celebrity physician Dr. Mehmet Oz or former hedge fund manager Dave McCormick.

A 21-year-old Pennsylvania woman remains jailed in a Cameron County facility after she was accused of trespassing at the SpaceX facility at Boca Chica Beach. Nivea Rose Parker told authorities she was a SpaceX employee and was on the fifth floor of High Bay No.1 because she wanted to meet with Elon Musk, Cameron County Sheriff Eric Garza stated in a media release. Garza said his deputies went to the SpaceX facility after receiving a call that a trespasser had been found at the location. Parker was found roaming the fifth floor of High Bay No. According to the media release from the sheriff’s office, surveillance video showed that on Wednesday Parker entered SpaceX at about 5:30 p.m.

When Philadelphia’s election board prepared to count ballots last year that were mailed-in without the voter’s handwritten date, Republicans threatened impeachment.

Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor, Doug Mastriano, has offered to sit for a voluntary interview with the congressional committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection.

If Republican Doug Mastriano is elected governor of Pennsylvania, the state could become a test case for his idea to wipe its voter rolls clean and make everyone re-register if they want to vote again.

A spokesman for the House Republican Caucus said it would be irresponsible to spend the money now.

The Supreme Court is reviewing a lower court’s decision that the votes be tallied.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily blocked the counting of some mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, an order that could affect the tight Republican Senate primary between former hedge fund CEO David McCormick and celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz. An order from Justice Samuel Alito paused a lower-court ruling in a lawsuit over a disputed 2021 local court election that would have allowed the counting of mail-in ballots that lacked a handwritten date. Based on that ruling, the state had advised counties to count those ballots in the race between McCormick and Oz.

Mail-in ballots that arrived on time but in envelopes missing dates handwritten by voters have been a flashpoint in recent elections in the key swing state, including a close Republican primary race.

Barely 900 votes separate celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz from former hedge fund CEO David McCormick.

Recounting began Friday in the too-close-to-call Republican primary contest for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania.

A house exploded Thursday night in Pottstown, Penn., killing at least four people and injuring two others, authorities said. It is not yet known what caused the explosion, but the investigation is ongoing.

Authorities say five people are dead after a house exploded northwest of Philadelphia.

Two people were injured and two may still be unaccounted for, according to town manager Justin Keller.

Two people were injured and two may still be unaccounted for, according to town manager Justin Keller.

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Oz, who is endorsed by former President Donald Trump, led former hedge funder McCormick in the final tally by less than half a percentage point.

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Pennsylvania’s top election official says the margin between the top two candidates in last week’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate is tight enough to trigger a recount.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said 14 students and one teacher were killed in a shooting at Robb Elementary School.

David Perdue is polling at a threshold where plenty of GOP candidates have wound up. For some in crowded races, it was good enough. That wouldn't be the case for him.

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A state trooper told local news that the "violent stopping motion" of the tractor trailer caused the hot dog mixture to "catapult" on to the roadway.

The lawsuit​ asks the state's Commonwealth Court to require counties to promptly count mail-in ballots that lack a required handwritten date on the return envelope.

Former hedge fund CEO David McCormick is going to Pennsylvania’s highest court in an eleventh-hour bid to help him close the gap in votes with celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania’s neck-and-neck Republican primary for U.S. Senate.

In the close Republican primary race to represent Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate, David McCormick questioned the constitutionality of refusing to count absentee and mail-in ballots lacking a handwritten date.

David McCormick’s campaign is suing in a Pennsylvania court over his neck-and-neck Republican primary contest for the U.S. Senate against celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz. McCormick is trying to ensure counties obey a brand-new federal appeals court decision.

The campaign of David McCormick, who is in a neck-and-neck Republican primary contest for the U.S. Senate against celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, sued in a Pennsylvania court Monday to try to ensure counties obey a brand-new federal appeals court decision that could help him make up ground. McCormick's lawsuit, filed after hours, asks the state's Commonwealth Court to require counties to promptly count mail-in ballots that lack a required handwritten date on the return envelope.

A former Pennsylvania attorney general who served jail time for leaking grand jury material and lying about it has admitted she violated her probation when she was arrested for drunken driving.

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman has been released from the hospital after a stay of more than a week following a stroke.

Before it became the lifeblood of the global economy, crude oil was just a gooey substance with almost no market value.

Just a day after spring warmth, wintry weather seized Colorado on May 20.

Summer Lee has won a five-way Democratic primary for a Pittsburgh-based U.S. House seat, making her the favorite in the heavily Democratic district to win the fall general election and become the first Black woman elected to Congress from Pennsylvania. Lee, a second-term state House member, lawyer and former labor organizer, comes from the party's progressive wing. Lee beat out second-place Steve Irwin, who was endorsed by the Allegheny County Democratic Party and backed by prominent Democrats from the county.

The ruling could introduce an as-yet-unknown number of uncounted ballots into a race where Oz and McCormick were separated by about 1,100 votes, as of Friday afternoon.

The hottest weather to date of spring 2022 will blanket Fredericksburg this weekend.

The Texas actor who played the Red Power Ranger has been charged with fraud.

The Republican primary race for the U.S. Senate remained close enough to trigger Pennsylvania's automatic recount law.

Election officials in Pennsylvania are girding for similar complaints in November, but fear there are few ways to combat deliberate misinformation and rising political toxicity. “It’s concerning because it’s statements like that that lead to threats against election officials. Under state law, county officials are not allowed to start processing ballots submitted by mail until Election Day. But changing the law to allow mail-in ballots to be processed sooner could ease a lot of the suspicion, experts say. Election officials are also eagerly awaiting a ruling from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that could dramatically reshape mail-in balloting in November.

Vote counting in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate has dragged into a third day as Dr. Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund CEO David McCormick remain essentially tied with tens of thousands of ballots left to tally.

Fetterman will face off against the winner of the GOP Senate primary, which could be ex-hedge funder Dave McCormick or Trump-endorsed celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz.

Former President Donald Trump worked his Pennsylvania primary endorsements to make him look like a winner, but exasperated Republicans in the state say the end

The aftershocks of Tuesday’s big primaries are still rumbling across Pennsylvania, but one impact is already clear: Republican voters’ choice of Doug Mastriano in the governor’s race is giving the GOP fits. Conversations with Republican strategists, donors and lobbyists in and outside of Pennsylvania in recent days reveal a party seething with anxiety, dissension and score-settling over Mastriano’s nomination. In the run-up to Tuesday night, Republicans openly used words and phrases such as “sui

Counting of mailed ballots in Pennsylvania is drawing renewed scrutiny amid a too-close-to-call U.S. Senate primary between Republicans David McCormick and Dr. Mehmet Oz. Former President Donald Trump blasted the state’s elections procedures on social media, even though there are no indications of any wrongdoing with those ballots other than a printing error that was slowing the tally in one county.

Former President Donald Trump’s influence was enough to elevate his Senate candidate to victory in North Carolina on Tuesday.

Doug Mastriano has won the Republican nomination for governor of Pennsylvania.

The Supreme Court has sided with Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas in his challenge to a provision of federal campaign finance law.

Former President Donald Trump’s winning streak in U.S. Senate primaries is on the line Tuesday as voters in five states cast their ballots in midterm elections.

A new round of primary elections across the U.S. this week is exposing heightened tensions within the Democratic Party.

Sensing a threat in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race, Donald Trump has issued a warning that surging Republican candidate Kathy Barnette would upend the GOP’s chances of holding the seat in November.

A Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor says he is ending his campaign and endorsing rival Lou Barletta.

Several prominent conservative groups are lining up behind Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Kathy Barnette as an alternative to Mehmet Oz, the celebrity heart surgeon endorsed by former President Donald Trump.

With six days until Pennsylvania’s primary, Republicans are openly worrying that a leading candidate in the crowded GOP field running for governor is unelectable in the fall general election.

The fight for Congress often dominates midterm elections.

A small exhibit delivered a big message in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County, home to the nation's largest Amish community.

What could be the final primary debate between Republicans running for Pennsylvania’s open U.S. Senate seat devolved into a string of attacks.

Republican candidates for Pennsylvania governor are pledging to open up natural gas production, but there are constraints to what a governor can do.

As CEO of the world’s largest hedge fund, David McCormick wore suits, lived on Connecticut’s ritzy Gold Coast and talked up bipartisanship.

A late winter storm has blasted the U.S. Northeast with strong winds and heavy snow, sending temperatures plunging after first taking aim at the Deep South.

An industry group says American whiskey exports have started rebounding, but distillers have yet to fully recover.

The Democratic Party's brand is so toxic in some parts of rural America that liberals are removing bumper stickers and refusing to acknowledge their party affiliation publicly.

Wisconsin is one of four states emerging as top priorities for Democrats in an election year when the party is facing fierce political headwinds.

When COVID-19 shuttered much of the economy in 2020, Bill Thomas sold off his whiskey inventories to keep his Washington, D.

The airline that flew a load of monkeys to the U.S. who were later involved in a highway wreck says it will stop this shipments this month.

Cash is pouring in to Pennsylvania’s hotly contested race for U.S. Senate as wealthy and well-connected candidates move in from out of state followed by millions of dollars.

Rescuers had to rappel nearly 150 feet down a Pittsburgh ravine and form a human chain to reach a few people after a bridge collapsed and took a municipal bus down with it.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden have added a cat to their pet family.

President Joe Biden has visited the bridge in Pittsburgh that collapsed just hours before his previously scheduled trip to promote his infrastructure package — a new law that aims to prevent just such disasters.

Former President Donald Trump is holding off on making a new endorsement in Pennsylvania’s closely watched Republican primary for U.S. Senate.

The University of Pennsylvania says it will work with the NCAA under its newly adopted standards for transgender athletes.