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WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania's plan to stabilize its struggling rural health care systems will get a $193 million infusion as President Donald Trump's administration impleme...
December 31, 2025 Pennsylvania News
First, Danielle Delange saw the news alert: Bristol Health & Rehab, the nursing home where her mother lived, was on fire. Within minutes, Delange got a phone call from an...
December 31, 2025 Pennsylvania News
John Montell “Monty” Mitchell was reeling last year. He heads into next year, though, freshly certified as a paramedic, committed to fatherhood and nurturing a dream that...
December 30, 2025 Pennsylvania News
Mary Jo Armstrong and her ex-husband, William, didn't exactly remarry for love. They remarried for health insurance. After 18 years of marriage and a divorce, finalized i...
December 30, 2025 National News
BRISTOL, Pa. — A thunderous explosion at a nursing home just outside Philadelphia killed at least two people, collapsed part of the building, sent flames shooting out and...
December 23, 2025 Pennsylvania News
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National News
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested Sunday that the United States would not govern Venezuela day-to-day other than enforcing an existing “oil quarantine...
January 04, 2026 National News
A solo hiker who authorities believe was killed by a mountain lion on a remote Colorado trail on New Year's Day was not the first person to encounter one of the predators...
January 02, 2026 National News
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Coast Guard said Friday it's still searching for people in the eastern Pacific Ocean who had jumped off alleged drug-smuggling boats when the U.S. m...
January 02, 2026 National News
NEW YORK — Enhanced tax credits that have helped reduce the cost of health insurance for the vast majority of Affordable Care Act enrollees expired overnight Wednesday, c...
January 02, 2026 National News
WESTERLY, R.I. — A yellow Labrador out for a walk with his owner in Rhode Island had to be rescued by firefighters on New Year’s Day after he wandered onto a thin layer o...
January 02, 2026 National News
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International News
CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland — Investigators said Friday that they believe sparkling candles atop Champagne bottles ignited a fatal fire at a Swiss ski resort when they cam...
January 02, 2026 International News
KYIV, Ukraine — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday appointed the head of Ukraine's military intelligence as his new chief of staff, a move that comes as the U.S. lea...
January 02, 2026 International News
MEXICO CITY — A strong earthquake rattled southern and central Mexico on Friday, interrupting President Claudia Sheinbaum’s first press briefing of the new year as seismi...
January 02, 2026 International News
NEW YORK — From Sydney to Paris to New York City, crowds rang in the new year with exuberant celebrations filled with thunderous fireworks or light shows, while others to...
January 01, 2026 National News
ROME — Pope Leo XIV opened 2026 on Thursday with a plea for peace, singling out in particular countries “bloodied by conflict” and families wounded by violence. Leo cele...
January 01, 2026 International News
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