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The race for the Senate: Here are the top races to watch
Republicans are favored to take control of the chamber thanks to a 2024 map of races that tilts disproportionately in the GOP’s favor. Here are the races to watch.
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How to avoid sharing election misinformation
As we’re waiting to learn the final results, it can be easy to be duped by false or misleading information.
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Trump and Harris are in Reading, Pa., today, thanks to a bad joke about Puerto Rico
The candidates are both spending time on the last day of the campaign in Reading — a majority-Latino city — where that bad joke about Puerto Rico has resonated.
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Harris and Trump set sights on Pennsylvania in final push before Election Day
The election is likely to be decided across seven states. Trump won Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin in 2016 only to see them flip to Biden in 2020.
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Here’s what to watch as Election Day approaches in the U.S.
In a deeply divided nation, the election is a true toss-up between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump.
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Quincy Jones, music titan who worked with everyone from Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson, dies at 91
Over the past 60 years, it was hard to find someone in the music, television or movie industries who did not have some connection to Jones.
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Jefferson University researchers are illuminating a chapel to research the healing power of light
Bitmapped video projections in Ravenhill Chapel are experiments in the healing powers of light.
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Did Philadelphia’s soda tax have an impact on people’s health?
A new study shows the soda tax made a small difference in slowing down weight gain, which researchers argue is still important.
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Listen 1:44A simple truth is at the root of many false election claims: Voter rolls are imperfect
In the decentralized U.S., voter lists are maintained at the state and local level, which leaves election officials trying to keep up with a population that changes every day.
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Trump talks about reporters being shot and says he shouldn’t have left White House after 2020 loss
On the last Sunday before the election, Donald Trump asked Lancaster County voters to make him leader of a “failed nation” while casting doubt on U.S. elections.
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10 key demographic groups that could decide the presidential election
A guide to the groups to pay closest attention to on election night that could tell the story of how — and why — former President Donald Trump or Vice President Harris wins.
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How the next U.S. president could change the course of Israel’s wars
Resolving the conflicts in Lebanon and Gaza could help Kamala Harris in the election. But it’s no secret Netanyahu would be more at ease with Trump, once his close ally.
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Lady Gaga, Oprah Winfrey among those expected at Harris campaign concert on Ben Franklin Parkway
Kamala Harris' campaign is hosting the concert, which is set to begin 5 p.m. Monday. Ricky Martin, The Roots and the vice president are also expected to attend.
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When polls close in Pennsylvania, other battleground states on Election Day
It will be a game of hopscotch to keep up with key times Tuesday in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina and Wisconsin.
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Harris appears on ‘Saturday Night Live’ as mirror image of Maya Rudolph with election looming
She told Rudolph's version of Harris “you got this” and the pair in sync delivered the signature “Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!”
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