Politics
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Two more candidates file papers to run for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania
Two more candidates filed paperwork Thursday to appear on Pennsylvania’s primary ballots for U.S. Senate as Democratic Sen. Bob Casey runs for a fourth term and Democrats try to maintain a majority in the narrowly divided chamber.
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Biden blasts Trump’s support of a nationwide abortion ban
President Joe Biden took Trump to task for his support of a nationwide abortion ban and his role in repealing Roe v. Wade, criticizing him for “taking away women’s freedom,” putting women’s lives in danger, and unleashing “cruelty and chaos all across America.”
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SEPTA to receive 200 new rail cars thanks to Biden’s Infrastructure Law
SEPTA has received more than $1 billion from the infrastructure law, but this round of funding could not have come for a better time for the struggling transit authority, which is facing a $240 million budget shortfall and drastic service cuts.
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Biden proposes new student debt relief plan for Pennsylvania borrowers facing ‘hardship’
The new proposal will focus on providing debt relief to those with older loans or loans with large sums of interest; those with high-cost, unavoidable child care or health care expenses; borrowers who are highly likely to default; and others who face “financial hardship.”
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Two Moms for Liberty members quit Central Bucks School Board
The latest news for the beleaguered anti-LGBTQ, far-right extremist organization comes a week after the Lehigh County Moms for Liberty chapter voted to dissolve itself after their membership plummeted from 200 members to three.
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Lebanon County’s ballot drop box a casualty of election conspiracies
More than two dozen Lebanon County residents packed a county commissioners and elections board meeting at the courthouse in the City of Lebanon on Thursday to voice their grievances about the county’s decision last month to remove the county’s ballot drop box.
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Poll: 1 in 5 Americans believe Berks County native Taylor Swift is part of conspiracy to elect Biden
This is just the latest Taylor Swift conspiracy theory to gain traction among Donald Trump’s base.
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Opinion: Reproductive choice and other freedoms are at stake in 2024
The League urges legislators to show their support for state-level bills that enhance reproductive healthcare choices, such as HB1888 proposing an amendment to the PA Constitution protecting reproductive liberty.
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Democrats retain majority in the Pennsylvania House with a 102-100 partisan divide
Democrats retained their slim majority in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Tuesday after voters elected a former school board member to represent them in a Philadelphia suburb that has been trending more to the left.
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Republicans want to use a 150-year-old law to ban abortion nationwide
Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for a second Trump administration, calls for the Justice Department to start enforcing the Comstock Act of 1873. The old law bans the mailing of “anything designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion,” which could include medical instruments.
