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Jason Richey beat John Ventre in the race to be the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor by a significant margin. Richey took just shy of 65% of the vote compared ...
May 19, 2026 Local News
WARMINSTER TWP, Bucks County — Democrats in Pennsylvania settled primary fights Tuesday to shape their congressional slate for the fall election, in which they hope — wit...
May 19, 2026 Pennsylvania News
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
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National News
CRESTWOOD, Ky. — Kentucky U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie lost his Republican House primary Tuesday in another test of President Donald Trump’s power over his party after he hand...
May 19, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel this week to a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Sweden, where U.S. plans to reduce troop levels in Europe coupled...
May 19, 2026 National News
An adolescent owl that was found stuck in a concrete mixer in southwestern Utah is finally on the mend, flying free and maybe a bit wiser from the ordeal. The great horne...
May 19, 2026 National News
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — More than 17,000 people were under evacuation orders in Southern California on Tuesday as a wildfire threatened suburban homes. The wind-driven Sand...
May 19, 2026 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
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International News
BEIJING — Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived Tuesday night in China for meetings with Chinese leader Xi Jinping less than a week after U.S. President Donald Trump w...
May 19, 2026 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
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