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GOP lawsuits set the stage for state challenges if Trump loses the election
Republicans filed more than 100 lawsuits challenging various aspects of vote-casting after being chastised repeatedly by judges in 2020 for bringing complaints about how the election was run only after votes were tallied.
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Amish woman dies 18 years after being severely injured in deadly Lancaster County schoolhouse shooting
A woman who was severely injured when a gunman killed five girls and wounded her and four other girls during an attack on their one-room Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania has died 18 years later, a funeral director said Thursday.
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Pennsylvania voters can cast a provisional ballot if their mail ballot is rejected, court says
A state court decided Thursday that voters in Pennsylvania can cast provisional ballots in place of mail-in ballots that are rejected for a garden-variety mistake they made when they returned it.
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White House signaling it will likely stop Nippon Steel’s plans to buy Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel
The White House is signaling an openness to blocking the acquisition of U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel, as a government review of the proposed takeover by the Japanese company is on the cusp of ending.
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Harris opposes US Steel’s sale to a Japanese firm during joint Pittsburgh event with Biden
In a campaign appearance on Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris said that U.S. Steel should remain domestically owned — concurring with the White House’s monthslong opposition to the company’s planned sale to Japan’s Nippon Steel.
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Court rules that Pa. counties must count undated and incorrectly dated mail-in ballots
A state court Friday halted enforcement of a requirement that voters include accurate, handwritten dates on envelopes used to submit mail-in ballots, a ruling likely to keep several thousand Pennsylvania votes from being thrown out in the November election.
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Jewish family can have anti-hate yard signs after Montgomery County neighbor used antisemitic slur, court says
The state Supreme Court decided Simon and Toby Galapo were exercising their rights under the Pennsylvania Constitution when they erected protest signs on their property and pointed them squarely at the neighbor’s house in the Philadelphia suburbs with messages such as “Hitler Eichmann Racists,” “No Place 4 Racism” and “Woe to the Racists. Woe to…
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A Penn State alum took Jahiem White into her home. The West Virginia RB calls her godmother
Amanda Poff was teaching at a York elementary school when she first met White. Through difficult times, her family helped to provide the young athlete with an outlet for his talents, and, ultimately, a stable home.
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What to know about Labor Day and its history
From barbecues to getaways, many people across the US mark Labor Day by relaxing. Here’s what you need to know about Labor Day.
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Harris and Walz make small-town stops in Western Pa. before DNC
Before hitting the prime time stage at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, visited Sheetz and Primanti Bros. on Sunday while making campaign stops in the western part of the state.
