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Shapiro outraises Garrity by 10-to-1 margin in 1st quarter, filings show
State Treasurer Stacy Garrity raised more than $1 million for her gubernatorial campaign during the first three months of the year but was outraised by incumbent Gov. Josh Shapiro by more than a 10-to-1 margin, campaign finance reports show. Garrity, a Republican from Bradford County, filed paperwork Tuesday showing that...
Trump is expected to meet NATO leader Rutte as he muses about pulling out of the military alliance
WASHINGTON — NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is expected to meet with President Donald Trump on Wednesday to try to smooth over the president’s anger with the military alliance over the Iran war. Trump had suggested the U.S. may consider leaving the trans-Atlantic alliance after NATO member countries ignored his call...
Even as they praise Iran ceasefire, world leaders are whipsawed by Trump
BERLIN — World leaders expressed relief Wednesday that the United States, Israel and Iran had agreed to a temporary ceasefire, with President Donald Trump backing off his apocalyptic threat to escalate a war that had already set off a cascading series of global crises. But the relief was tempered by...
Trump-endorsed Republican Clay Fuller wins Marjorie Taylor Greene’s former House seat in Georgia
RINGGOLD, Ga. — Republican Clay Fuller on Tuesday won Marjorie Taylor Greene’s former U.S. House seat in Georgia, turning back a Democratic challenge with the help of President Donald Trump’s endorsement. Democrat Shawn Harris had led the first round of voting in March in a 17-candidate field, but couldn’t overcome...
Republicans unveil a $342 million battle plan to keep the Senate
The leading super political action committee for Senate Republicans is unveiling a nearly $350 million plan to preserve control of the Senate, aiming tens of millions of dollars at red-leaning states including Alaska, Iowa and Ohio as the midterm elections grow more competitive. Top officials at the group, the Senate...
Trump endorses Republican Steven Hilton for California governor, reordering wide-open race
LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump has endorsed Republican Steve Hilton for California governor, reordering a crowded, wide-open race to lead the nation’s most populous state. Trump posted late Sunday on his social media platform Truth Social that he has known Hilton for years and called the conservative commentator “a...
ICE says 13 arrested at PennDOT drivers’ license center in Armstrong County
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 13 people Friday at a PennDOT driver’s license center near Kittanning, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Jason Koontz, a DHS spokesman, said ICE was called by East Franklin police after “concerned citizens reported an abnormally large amount of individuals” outside the...
Here are the planned stops for immigrant rights activist’s 8-day walk to ICE detention center
Jaime Martinez’s eight-day walk from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Pittsburgh’s South Side to the agency’s detention center in Clearfield County will take him through Monroeville, Apollo and Indiana. The march envisioned by Martinez, executive director of immigrant advocacy group Frontline Dignity, will start about 8 a.m....
Trump’s go-it-alone certainty confronts the uncertainties of war
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump did not equivocate in his first live address to Americans about the war in Iran. “We’ve beaten and completely decimated Iran,” he said in a prime-time speech from the White House on Wednesday. “They are decimated both militarily and economically and in every other way.”...
Bondi struggled to prosecute Trump foes. But will a new attorney general make a difference?
WASHINGTON — Pam Bondi is out of her job after failing to deliver criminal cases against President Donald Trump’s political enemies. But there’s no guarantee her successor will have any better success at placating the president. Over the last year, Bondi’s Justice Department has encountered resistance from judges, grand jurors...
A look at how the Epstein files dogged Pam Bondi’s time as attorney general
NEW YORK — After Pam Bondi became U.S. attorney general last year, conservative influencers, online sleuths and others who wanted the government to disclose all it knew about Jeffrey Epstein thought they might have a champion in the Department of Justice. So did Jess Michaels, one of the legions of...
Trump offers murky path forward for Republicans as Iran war clouds midterm elections
NEW YORK — This is not the run up to the midterm elections that Republicans wanted. A year and a half after winning the White House by promising to lower costs and end wars, Donald Trump is a wartime president overseeing surging energy costs and an escalating overseas conflict that...
Shapiro’s reelection campaign reports raising over $10M during first quarter
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s reelection campaign said it raised more than $10 million during the first three months of the year — twice as much as the previous record for a gubernatorial campaign in the first quarter of an election year. “This remarkably strong showing underscores the broad support for...
Shapiro holds wide lead over Garrity in race for Pa. governor, poll shows
A new poll shows Gov. Josh Shapiro with a commanding lead over Treasurer Stacy Garrity in his bid for a second term. The Susquehanna Polling and Research poll, released Wednesday, has Shapiro leading Garrity by 22 percentage points (58% to 36%). Just 5% of likely voters remain undecided at this...
Pam Bondi, a Trump loyalist who oversaw Justice Department upheaval, is out as his attorney general
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that Pam Bondi is out as his attorney general, ending the contentious tenure of a loyalist who upended the Justice Department’s culture of independence from the White House, oversaw large-scale firings of career employees and moved aggressively to investigate the Republican president’s perceived...
Moscow plans to send 2nd oil tanker to Cuba, Russian energy minister says
Keyword-slug: AP-EU-Russia-Cuba-Oil MOSCOW — Russia plans to send a second oil tanker to Cuba, the country’s Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilyov said on Thursday. The announcement comes just two days after sanctioned Russian tanker Anatoly Kolodkin docked at the Cuban port of Matanzas laden with 730,000 barrels of oil, marking the...
U.K. gathers more than 40 countries to plot ways of reopening the Strait of Hormuz
LONDON — Britain accused Iran on Thursday of holding the world’s economy hostage as diplomats from more than 40 countries held talks on ways to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping route that has been choked off by the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. The U.S. is not attending...
Homeland Security shutdown will likely stretch into next week as House weighs Senate’s funding plan
WASHINGTON — The funding lapse for the Department of Homeland Security will likely stretch into next week as the House contemplates passing a Senate plan it had previously rejected to fund the bulk of the agency, but not its immigration enforcement operations. There was no resolution Thursday to the standoff,...
Californians say democracy is in peril, state should enact voting rights protections, poll shows
LOS ANGELES — Strong majorities of California voters believe American democracy is under attack and, in the wake of U.S. Supreme Court rulings narrowing federal protections, support enacting a new state Voting Rights Act to prohibit discrimination and efforts to suppress the ability to cast a ballot, a new poll...
Whispers in the Supreme Court as Trump takes a front-row seat for oral arguments
WASHINGTON — People spoke in whispers and craned their necks Wednesday to watch as President Donald Trump broke with all sitting presidents before him and took a seat in the front row of the chamber’s public seating area to hear a Supreme Court argument. He sat there silently with his...
Shapiro vows to ‘protect’ voters from Trump order on voting by mail
Gov. Josh Shapiro opposes an executive order by President Donald Trump that attempts to place tighter restrictions on mail-in voting. “President Trump can sign whatever the hell he wants to, but it won’t change the Constitution. The authority to set our election rules belongs to the states — and as...
From TMZ to Trump, pressure grows to bring Congress back during partial shutdown
WASHINGTON — TMZ built its brand by tracking celebrities. Now it is turning its attention to Congress, chasing down paparazzi-style shots of lawmakers on break from Washington during a record-long partial government shutdown. Videos and photos posted by the tabloid website showing lawmakers in airports, Las Vegas and even Disney...
Trump moves to crack down on mail-in voting with new order
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday intended to make it harder to cast mail-in ballots, escalating his long-running campaign against a practice used by millions of Americans. The order seeks to ensure that state election officials have lists of eligible voters, according to White House staff...
Vance and Rubio’s differing postures on Iran war highlight their challenges ahead of 2028 election
WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump assembled his Cabinet last week, he asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance to give an update on the Iran war. Rubio, known for his hawkish views, gave an impassioned defense of the war, calling it “a favor” to the...
As Shapiro opposes ICE detention centers, his GOP opponent for Pa. governor stays vague
Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to account and drives positive change in Pennsylvania. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — Stacy Garrity’s gubernatorial campaign won’t clarify where the Republican stands on ICE detention centers, only saying the...
