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Summary List PlacementA Trump supporter in Pennsylvania threatened to shoot up a local Democratic Party office, boasted to party officials that it would be hard to catch him, and then was arrested this week after apparently following through on this threat, according to a federal criminal complaint. On January 6, the day of the pro-Trump insurrection at the US Capitol, Anthony Francis Nero, 48,...

Summary List PlacementA hunter in Pennsylvania has been charged with homicide after prosecutors said he walked away after shooting a teenager in a state park.  The teenager, 18-year-old Jason Kutt was sitting in his car with his girlfriend at Nockamixon State Park when he was shot in October. They were waiting to watch the sunset, Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub said at a press conference....

Summary List PlacementDonald Trump lost Pennsylvania by more than 80,000 votes, but in a last-ditch effort to steal victory from the jaws of defeat, the outgoing president's legal team is asking the US Supreme Court to throw out over 110,000 mail-in ballots. Prior to the November election, Pennsylvania's highest court issued a unanimous decision that mail-in votes should not be rejected solely because a...

Summary List PlacementPennsylvania's Supreme Court on Saturday dismissed a lawsuit from Republicans that sought to block the election's certification and challenge the constitutionality of the state's mail-in voting law. The lawsuit, led by GOP Rep. Mike Kelly, proposed that the justices disenfranchise some 2.5 million voters who cast their ballots via mail in accordance with the law, or alternatively overturn the election results and...

Summary List PlacementJohn Fetterman, the former mayor of Braddock, was elected lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania in 2018, beating out better-funded opponents. He is not a democratic socialist, although he was a big supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders, and he doesn't even like the label of "progressive." John Fetterman, Pennsylvania's Democratic lieutenant governor who lives in a remodeled Chevy dealership, believes his politics can best...

Summary List Placement The Trump campaign said in a statement that they are "thankful" to the judge who dismissed their Pennsylvania campaign lawsuit in a scathing opinion on Saturday. The lawsuit sought to block Pennsylvania from certifying the vote count, claiming election officials took part in an "improper scheme" to benefit President-elect Joe Biden, who won the state. Judge Matthew Brann threw out the...

Summary List Placement Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania on Saturday joined a small group of Republican lawmakers who have publicly acknowledged that President-elect Joe Biden won the 2020 election, noting that President Donald Trump has "exhausted all plausible legal options" for winning the state's 20 electoral votes. Toomey's statement came just hours after a federal judge threw out a major Trump campaign lawsuit in...

Summary List PlacementA federal judge on Saturday declined to disenfranchise roughly 7 million voters in the state of Pennsylvania, opting instead to throw out the Trump campaign's lawsuit that requested he block the state's election results certification. In a blistering opinion, Judge Matthew Brann denounced the Trump campaign's lawyers for trying to toss millions of votes without evidence of any good reason to do...

Summary List PlacementA group of Pennsylvania Republicans, led by US Representative Mike Kelly and 2020 congressional candidate Sean Parnell, are suing Gov. Tom Wolf, the GOP-controlled General Assembly, and Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, seeking to toss out a major voting reform bill that passed last year and thus invalidate millions of mail-in ballots cast in the 2020 presidential election. The lawsuit, filed in...

Summary List Placement On the eve of a hearing in the biggest election-related lawsuit the Trump campaign has filed in Pennsylvania, three of the four lawyers representing the campaign withdrew as counsel. The lawyers, Linda Kerns, John Scott, and Douglas Bryan Hughes, "move to withdraw their appearance as counsel for Plaintiffs," they said in a court filing Monday evening. Marc Scaringi "will act as...

Summary List PlacementDonald Trump told a crowd of followers in Pennsylvania that he only came to see them because his campaign is doing worse than he hoped. Trump spoke for an hour at Erie International Airport on Tuesday night, during which time he sought to attack Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden and tout his own accomplishments.  With 13 days to the US election,...

Summary List PlacementJust weeks before the November 3 presidential election, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a ruling on an obscure provision of state law, requiring voters to place mail ballots in not just one but two envelopes in order to be accepted and counted.  Pennsylvania, a critical battleground state worth 20 votes in the electoral college, is permitting all voters to vote by mail...

US Postal Service told the Pennsylvania Secretary of State that some ballots might not be delivered on time because their delivery standards couldn't accommodate the state's tight election deadlines, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.  Pennsylvania's Department of State has now asked the Supreme Court to allow for mail ballots to be counted if they're received up to three days after the Nov. 3 election date. ...

Politicians in Beaver, Dauphin, and Lebanon declared that their counties would begin returning to business as usual on May 15, despite being some of the worst-hit parts of Pennsylvania during the COVID-19 pandemic. "It is time to reopen the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and return our state to the people (as prescribed by our Constitution) and not run it as a dictatorship," Dauphin County Board...

A Philadelphia man, who has ALS, a nervous system disease that impacts voluntary muscle movement and speech, said he was denied service at a restaurant after servers misunderstood the symptoms of his disease as intoxication. A viral video posted by his wife Bryanna Hare showed the couple confronting the restaurant manager. The video has gathered over 80,000 views since it was posted last Friday....

One of Hong Kong's leading pro-democracy activists is urging US lawmakers to stop exporting tear gas to the city's police forces. Joshua Wong is testifying before Congress on Tuesday and told Business Insider he hopes to urge lawmakers to help prevent US-manufactured riot weapons from being used against Hong Kong's protesters. Images of the tear gas canisters have circulated on social media showing labels...