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WASHINGTON — Democratic voters in Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary will pick their nominees to flip four seats seen as critical for the party to retake the U.S. House in No...
May 18, 2026 Pennsylvania News
(The Center Square) — Both longtime and relatively new incumbent state lawmakers will face primary election challenges on May 19 as the journey toward remaking the legisl...
May 17, 2026 Pennsylvania News
As costs continue to rise in the ambulance service business, Karns City Regional Ambulance Service president Mark Lauer recently called together leaders from several nort...
May 16, 2026 Government
Going into the Tuesday, May 19, primary election, Butler County is broken into 95 polling precincts, each of which has its own polling location. One major change from the...
May 15, 2026 Elections
(The Center Square) — A state House committee on Tuesday moved a step closer to eliminating a major distraction in schools by passing a bill which — with many exceptions ...
May 11, 2026 Pennsylvania News
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National News
NEW YORK — Oil prices and stock markets worldwide swung through a shaky Monday with uncertainty about what will happen with the Iran war. The S&P 500 swiveled between gai...
May 19, 2026 National News
NEW YORK — Negotiators on Monday reached a deal to end the strike that stalled service on the Long Island Rail Road, the busiest commuter rail system in North America. G...
May 18, 2026 National News
BOISE, Idaho — Former Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman, who was convicted of lying during testimony at the O.J. Simpson murder trial, has died. He was 74. Fuhrm...
May 18, 2026 National News
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to oversee the management of a quarter-billion acres of public lands on Monday, as the adminis...
May 18, 2026 National News
SAN DIEGO — Two teenage gunmen opened fire at an Islamic Center in San Diego on Monday and killed three men before killing themselves a few blocks away, police said. The ...
May 18, 2026 National News
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International News
JERUSALEM — Israeli forces on Tuesday intercepted six remaining vessels from a much larger activist flotilla attempting to challenge Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza. Two ...
May 19, 2026 International News
KINSHASA, Congo — Congo will open three Ebola treatment centers in the eastern Ituri province, and the World Health Organization is sending a team of experts to the count...
May 18, 2026 International News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he is holding off on a military strike on Iran planned for Tuesday because “serious negotiations” are underway to end the war. T...
May 18, 2026 International News
It’s getting harder for officials in the Kremlin to cast the war in Ukraine — now in its fifth year — as something so distant that it doesn’t affect the daily routines of...
May 18, 2026 International News
WASHINGTON — China has agreed to ramp up trade for U.S. agricultural products such as beef and poultry, buying at an annualized rate of $17 billion per year for 2026 and ...
May 18, 2026 International News
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