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Immigration, border security among top issues that will decide presidential race
It can be tough to determine exactly where the presidential candidates stand on the issues after being barraged by headlines, rallies, campaign events and political ads. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are making personal appeals, having visited the Pittsburgh region more than any place in the...
Harris, Trump hold rival events in battleground Pennsylvania
OAKS, Pa. — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump took their fight for Pennsylvania to opposite ends of the state Monday, with Harris speaking in the northwest corner in Erie and Trump in the southeastern suburbs of Philadelphia. Democrat Harris and Republican Trump have been making regular...
Kamala Harris will sit down with Bret Baier for her 1st Fox News interview
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris will be interviewed by Fox News anchor Bret Baier on Wednesday in Pennsylvania as she steps up her travel and conversations with media outlets in the closing stretch of the presidential campaign. It will be her first sit down with the network, and her...
Pennsylvania voters to decide key statewide races in fall election
HARRISBURG — One job going before voters across Pennsylvania this fall keeps a watch over government agencies. A second handles the state’s money. And the third oversees hundreds of prosecutors. Republican incumbents Treasurer Stacy Garrity and Auditor General Tim DeFoor are running to keep their seats, while the race to...
This could have been a year of a federal court reckoning for Trump. Judges had other ideas
WASHINGTON — The indictment charging Donald Trump with hoarding classified documents leveled one jaw-dropping allegation after another, including that he showed off a secret Pentagon attack plan to guests at his golf club and suggested his lawyer mislead the FBI about the presence of the White House records. But those...
Harris is laying out a new plan to empower Black men as she tries to energize them to vote for her
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris is announcing a plan to give Black men more economic opportunities and other chances to thrive as she works to energize a key voting bloc that has Democrats concerned about a lack of enthusiasm. Harris’ plan includes providing forgivable business loans for Black entrepreneurs,...
Most AAPI adults think legal immigrants give the U.S. a major economic boost: AP-NORC/AAPI Data poll
WASHINGTON — Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander adults are more likely than the overall U.S. population to view legal immigration as an asset to the country’s economy and workforce, according to a new poll. When it comes to the risks posed by illegal immigration, though, their views are...
Republican lawsuits target rules for overseas voters, but those ballots are already sent
ATLANTA — The latest method of voting to fall into the political crosshairs is the way overseas voters — including members of the military stationed abroad — cast their ballots. The process is governed by federal law and implemented by states. In recent weeks, Republicans have been challenging how states...
Man with loaded gun arrested at checkpoint near Donald Trump’s weekend rally in Southern California
LOS ANGELES — A Nevada man with a shotgun, loaded handgun, ammunition and several fake passports in his vehicle was arrested at a security checkpoint outside Donald Trump’s rally Saturday night in the Southern California desert, authorities said. He was released the same day on $5,000 bail. The suspect, a...
Former President Bill Clinton travels to Georgia to rally rural Black voters to the polls
ALBANY, Ga. — Former President Bill Clinton urged churchgoers in Albany, Georgia, on Sunday to rally behind the upbeat campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris for the office he once held. “Uniting people and building, being repairers of the breach, as Isaiah says, those are the things that work,” Clinton...
Decision 2024: How Pittsburgh became the center of the political universe
Forget spotted lanternflies, controversial restaurant visits or even an assassination attempt. Whatever peculiar problems the Pittsburgh region might pose, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump just can’t stay away. With 19 precious Electoral College votes at stake in Pennsylvania, the world’s two most-watched politicians have crisscrossed our area over the past...
Harris’ doctor reports she’s in ‘excellent health.’ Her campaign wants to draw a contrast with Trump
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris is in “excellent health” and “possesses the physical and mental resiliency” required to serve as president, her doctor said in a letter released Saturday that summarizes her medical history and status. Dr. Joshua Simmons, a U.S. Army colonel and physician to the vice president,...
Why is Donald Trump campaigning in California, a state he’s almost certain to lose?
LOS ANGELES — With the presidency on the line in battlegrounds like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, why would Donald Trump venture into California, one of the most solidly Democratic states, just weeks before Election Day? Trump is almost certain to lose California, and that won’t change after his scheduled Saturday stop...
Get Out the Vote bus tour, along with Black fraternities and sororities, mobilizes voters in Hill District
On Friday afternoon in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, the Freedom Is At Stake GOTV Bus Tour made a stop at Freedom Corner to mobilize voters and spread awareness about the importance of voting. The group partnered with several organizations to bring the event to fruition, including Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.,...
House Speaker Mike Johnson stumps with Rob Mercuri, dismisses Dems’ strategy
The Pittsburgh area attracted another high-profile surrogate Friday as U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. visited Beaver County, where he exuded confidence that Republicans will sweep the national elections, belittled Democrats’ campaign strategy and downplayed the controversy over the 2020 election. Johnson stopped at PGT Trucking in Hopewell Township with...
Cornel West to appeal after judge denies spot on Pa. presidential ballot
A federal judge on Thursday said third-party presidential candidate Cornel West cannot have his name placed on Pennsylvania’s ballot — despite the court’s concerns over how state election laws treat minor-party candidates. “Common sense tells the court that we are less than one month from a presidential general election,” wrote...
Harris viewed more positively by Hispanic women than by Hispanic men: AP-NORC poll
WASHINGTON — A solid majority of Hispanic women have a positive opinion of Vice President Kamala Harris and a negative view of former President Donald Trump, but Hispanic men are more divided on both candidates, according to a recent poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Hispanic...
The (basically) secret list of campaign donations by no-bid contractors
This story first appeared in The Investigator, a weekly newsletter by Spotlight PA featuring the best investigative and accountability journalism from across Pennsylvania. HARRISBURG — Every year, government agencies in Pennsylvania award contracts — sometimes worth millions of dollars — without going through the traditional bidding process meant to ensure...
Trump insults Detroit while campaigning in the cityVideo
DETROIT — Former President Donald Trump criticized Detroit while delivering remarks to an economic group there on Thursday, saying the whole country would end up like the city if his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, is elected. “The whole country will be like — you want to know the...
Obama urges Black men to get on board for Kamala Harris as he stops in PittsburghVideo
Former President Barack Obama addressed a touchy subject within the Black community at a campaign stop in Pittsburgh Thursday: Black men are voting at slowly dwindling rates for Democrats. At an afternoon stop at the Harris campaign office in East Liberty before his speech in Oakland, Obama spoke with a...
Trump is counting on Pennsylvania’s rural voters to win. Will it be enough?
EPHRATA, Pa. — Rob Warihay is a busy man. He farms 4,000 acres from Dover, Delaware, to Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and he owns a construction company based in his home, Lancaster County. As he waited for his daughter to show her dairy beef steer at the Ephrata Fair last week, he...
Trump lashes out at Harris and ‘The View’ co-hosts, as Hurricane Milton makes landfall
SCRANTON, Pa. — Former President Donald Trump hurled insults at his rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, and other women Wednesday — saying he had no interest in stopping his attacks even if they turn off female voters — as Hurricane Milton made landfall, lashing Florida with rain, tornadoes and tropical-storm-force...
Obama implores Pittsburghers to ‘get off couch’ and vote for Harris at Oakland rallyVideo
Former President Barack Obama pleaded with Pittsburghers to get out and vote for Vice President Kamala Harris during a rally Thursday evening in front of thousands, urging the crowd that this year’s election is too important to sit on the sidelines. During his trip to the Steel City, he spoke...
Sanewashing? The banality of crazy? A decade into the Trump era, media haven’t figured him out
NEW YORK — Nearly a decade into the Trump Era of politics, less than a month from his third Election Day as the Republican candidate for president and there is still remarkably little consensus within the media about how best to cover Donald Trump. Are reporters “sanewashing” Trump, or are...
Trump has long blasted China’s trade practices. His ‘God Bless the USA’ Bibles were printed there
WASHINGTON — Thousands of copies of Donald Trump’s “God Bless the USA” Bible were printed in a country that the former president has repeatedly accused of stealing American jobs and engaging in unfair trade practices — China. Global trade records reviewed by The Associated Press show a printing company in...
