Politics
NASCAR driver Brandon Brown caught in unwinnable culture war
The 28-year-old Brown unwittingly became entangled in this debacle when he won his first career NASCAR race in October in Alabama.
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Judge rejects effort by Trump to toss Jan. 6 lawsuits
U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta says in his ruling that Trump’s words were “plausibly words of incitement not protected by the First Amendment.”
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President Biden signs stopgap spending bill averting shutdown
President Joe Biden on Friday signed a bipartisan bill to extend government funding for three weeks to give Congress more time to reach a ...
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California bill would allow citizens to enforce weapons ban
A California bill would allow private citizens to go after gun makers in the same way Texas allows them to target abortion providers.
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The U.S. Senate avoids a government shutdown, punting a spending deadline into March
Lawmakers hope to finalize a longer-term spending bill before the new shutdown deadline on March 11.
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The Pa. Supreme Court prepares to decide how to draw the state’s Congressional districts
Candidates were supposed to have been working to get on the ballot by now, but the state's election schedule is on ice because new political maps are not in place yet.
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Trump must testify in New York investigation, judge rules
A judge has ruled former President Donald Trump must answer questions under oath in a New York investigation into his business practices. It is likely to be appealed.
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Jury rejects Sarah Palin’s lawsuit against New York Times
A jury in New York on Tuesday rejected the Republican’s claim that the newspaper maliciously damaged her reputation with an editorial linking her campaign rhetoric to a mass
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Biden warns Putin of ‘severe costs’ of Ukraine invasion
In the hourlong call, Biden also said the United States and its allies would respond “decisively and impose swift and severe costs” if the Kremlin attacked its neighbor.
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How the protest movement engineered a takedown of the Rizzo statue after years of delay
As artist Ursula Rucker says, “energy is real” in the presence of public art.
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Former Delaware gubernatorial candidate sentenced for threatening ex-wife’s attorney
Once a candidate for Delaware governor, Mike Protack will spend the next year behind bars after pleading guilty to mailing threats to his ex-wife’s attorney.
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House passes stopgap bill to avoid government shutdown
This is the third stopgap spending bill to keep the federal government afloat since October.
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Pa. judge recommends a GOP-drawn congressional map plan. But the process still isn’t over
The congressional map plan drawn by Republican state lawmakers was already vetoed by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf. Here’s what happens next.
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Pa. GOP won’t endorse in big primary fields for governor, Senate
The primary field for governor is double-digits deep, while the fields for U.S. Senate and lieutenant governor each feature at least a half-dozen candidates.
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Pence: Trump is ‘wrong’ to say election could be overturned
Pence is responding to Trump’s intensifying efforts this week to advance the false narrative that he could have done something to prevent Joe Biden from taking office.
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