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Pennsylvania opting in to Trump's $300-a-week jobless pay
AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-emergency-management-tom-wolf-a3b288307cb97da1ab21c36b7ea38121Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-emergency-management-tom-wolf-a3b288307cb97da1ab21c36b7ea38121Click to copyRelated topicsHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania will ask the federal government for a new round of $300 in weekly unemployment benefits under a presidential order tapping into disaster relief aid, Gov. Tom Wolf’s labor and industry secretary said Tuesday.Labor and Industry Secretary Jerry Oleksiak told reporters the Wolf administration would prefer the...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-emergency-management-tom-wolf-a3b288307cb97da1ab21c36b7ea38121Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-emergency-management-tom-wolf-a3b288307cb97da1ab21c36b7ea38121Click to copyRelated topicsHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania will ask the federal government for a new round of $300 in weekly unemployment benefits under a presidential order tapping into disaster relief aid, Gov. Tom Wolf’s labor and industry secretary said Tuesday.Labor and Industry Secretary Jerry Oleksiak told reporters the Wolf administration would prefer the...WW…
Vaccine passports are latest flash point in COVID politics
AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/travel-new-york-data-privacy-immunizations-coronavirus-pandemic-f1c7623849d5458bcda3aed67f4c3d90Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/travel-new-york-data-privacy-immunizations-coronavirus-pandemic-f1c7623849d5458bcda3aed67f4c3d90Click to copyRelated topicsHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Vaccine passports being developed to verify COVID-19 immunization status and allow inoculated people to more freely travel, shop and dine have become the latest flash point in America’s perpetual political wars, with Republicans portraying them as a heavy-handed intrusion into...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/travel-new-york-data-privacy-immunizations-coronavirus-pandemic-f1c7623849d5458bcda3aed67f4c3d90Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/travel-new-york-data-privacy-immunizations-coronavirus-pandemic-f1c7623849d5458bcda3aed67f4c3d90Click to copyRelated topicsHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Vaccine passports being developed to verify COVID-19 immunization status and allow inoculated people to more freely travel, shop and dine have become the latest flash point in America’s perpetual political wars, with Republicans portraying them as a heavy-handed intrusion into...WW…
GOP state senator at Capitol during attack urged to resign
AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-pennsylvania-coronavirus-pandemic-elections-efcee839517d49a739b4f57475f7561bClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-pennsylvania-coronavirus-pandemic-elections-efcee839517d49a739b4f57475f7561bClick to copyRelated topicsHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Republican state senator who was on the scene when a violent mob of fellow Donald Trump supporters commandeered the U.S. Capitol should resign, the top Democrat in the Pennsylvania Senate said Thursday.Minority Leader Jay Costa, D-Allegheny, said Sen. Doug Mastriano’s words and actions since...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-pennsylvania-coronavirus-pandemic-elections-efcee839517d49a739b4f57475f7561bClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-pennsylvania-coronavirus-pandemic-elections-efcee839517d49a739b4f57475f7561bClick to copyRelated topicsHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Republican state senator who was on the scene when a violent mob of fellow Donald Trump supporters commandeered the U.S. Capitol should resign, the top Democrat in the Pennsylvania Senate said Thursday.Minority Leader Jay Costa, D-Allegheny, said Sen. Doug Mastriano’s words and actions since...WW…
Dick Thornburgh, ex-governor and US attorney general, dies
AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-pittsburgh-dick-thornburgh-746fe9abb81012e54d20ee94da078fe3Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-pittsburgh-dick-thornburgh-746fe9abb81012e54d20ee94da078fe3Click to copyRelated topicsDick Thornburgh, who as Pennsylvania governor won plaudits for his cool handling of the 1979 Three Mile Island crisis and as U.S. attorney general restored credibility to a Justice Department hurt by the Iran-Contra scandal, has died. He was 88. Thornburgh died Thursday morning at a retirement community facility outside Pittsburgh, his son David...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-pittsburgh-dick-thornburgh-746fe9abb81012e54d20ee94da078fe3Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-pittsburgh-dick-thornburgh-746fe9abb81012e54d20ee94da078fe3Click to copyRelated topicsDick Thornburgh, who as Pennsylvania governor won plaudits for his cool handling of the 1979 Three Mile Island crisis and as U.S. attorney general restored credibility to a Justice Department hurt by the Iran-Contra scandal, has died. He was 88. Thornburgh died Thursday morning at a retirement community facility outside Pittsburgh, his son David...WW…
High court opening tops Pennsylvania's 2021 judicial races
AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-coronavirus-pandemic-elections-bcb740a5de7dc1804f75ee865784d2f1Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-coronavirus-pandemic-elections-bcb740a5de7dc1804f75ee865784d2f1Click to copyRelated topicsHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Statewide judicial races will be among Pennsylvania’s most closely watched election contests in the coming year, with lawyers and judges around the state already lining up supporters and trying to figure out if they can raise enough money to win.The marquee race will be for Supreme Court, where the Democrats’ 5-2...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-coronavirus-pandemic-elections-bcb740a5de7dc1804f75ee865784d2f1Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-coronavirus-pandemic-elections-bcb740a5de7dc1804f75ee865784d2f1Click to copyRelated topicsHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Statewide judicial races will be among Pennsylvania’s most closely watched election contests in the coming year, with lawyers and judges around the state already lining up supporters and trying to figure out if they can raise enough money to win.The marquee race will be for Supreme Court, where the Democrats’ 5-2...WW…
Court alters police rules for warrantless vehicle searches
AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-constitutions-courts-6421b381e8c049d18368c4fb69bc2d15Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-constitutions-courts-6421b381e8c049d18368c4fb69bc2d15Click to copyRelated topicsHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Police must have probable cause as well as “exigent circumstances” in order to legally search a vehicle without a warrant, a divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.The 4-3 decision said the state constitution’s privacy protections are greater than the U.S. Constitution’s and that those protections extend to vehicles. The court...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-constitutions-courts-6421b381e8c049d18368c4fb69bc2d15Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-constitutions-courts-6421b381e8c049d18368c4fb69bc2d15Click to copyRelated topicsHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Police must have probable cause as well as “exigent circumstances” in order to legally search a vehicle without a warrant, a divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.The 4-3 decision said the state constitution’s privacy protections are greater than the U.S. Constitution’s and that those protections extend to vehicles. The court...WW…
Source: Pa. lawmaker gets a positive test at Trump meeting
AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/doug-mastriano-positive-virus-trump-70354ddc031781fb7ee476809a6b67dbClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/doug-mastriano-positive-virus-trump-70354ddc031781fb7ee476809a6b67dbClick to copyRelated topicsHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania state senator abruptly left a West Wing meeting with President Donald Trump after being informed he had tested positive for the coronavirus, a person with direct knowledge of the meeting told The Associated Press on Sunday.Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano had gone to the White House last Wednesday with like-minded...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/doug-mastriano-positive-virus-trump-70354ddc031781fb7ee476809a6b67dbClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/doug-mastriano-positive-virus-trump-70354ddc031781fb7ee476809a6b67dbClick to copyRelated topicsHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania state senator abruptly left a West Wing meeting with President Donald Trump after being informed he had tested positive for the coronavirus, a person with direct knowledge of the meeting told The Associated Press on Sunday.Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano had gone to the White House last Wednesday with like-minded...WW…
Pa. State Sen. Doug Mastriano tests positive for COVID-19 after meeting Republicans at White House
Mastriano went to Washington shortly after helping to host a four-hour-plus public meeting in Gettysburg — maskless — on efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory in the state.HARRISBURG — A Pennsylvania state senator abruptly left a West Wing meeting with President Donald Trump after being informed he had tested positive for the coronavirus, a person with direct knowledge of the meeting told The Associated Press on Sunday.Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano (R., Franklin) had gone to the White House last Wednesday with like-minded Republican state lawmakers shortly after a...…Mastriano went to Washington shortly after helping to host a four-hour-plus public meeting in Gettysburg — maskless — on efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory in the state.HARRISBURG — A Pennsylvania state senator abruptly left a West Wing meeting with President Donald Trump after being informed he had tested positive for the coronavirus, a person with direct knowledge of the meeting told The Associated Press on Sunday.Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano (R., Franklin) had gone to the White House last Wednesday with like-minded Republican state lawmakers shortly after a...WW…
Source: Pa. lawmaker gets a positive test at Trump meeting
AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/doug-mastriano-positive-virus-trump-70354ddc031781fb7ee476809a6b67dbClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/doug-mastriano-positive-virus-trump-70354ddc031781fb7ee476809a6b67dbClick to copyRelated topicsHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania state senator abruptly left a West Wing meeting with President Donald Trump after being informed he had tested positive for the coronavirus, a person with direct knowledge of the meeting told The Associated Press on Sunday.Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano had gone to the White House last Wednesday with like-minded...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/doug-mastriano-positive-virus-trump-70354ddc031781fb7ee476809a6b67dbClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/doug-mastriano-positive-virus-trump-70354ddc031781fb7ee476809a6b67dbClick to copyRelated topicsHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania state senator abruptly left a West Wing meeting with President Donald Trump after being informed he had tested positive for the coronavirus, a person with direct knowledge of the meeting told The Associated Press on Sunday.Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano had gone to the White House last Wednesday with like-minded...WW…
'This election has to be turned around': Trump claims election 'rigged' in phone call
WASHINGTON --U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday baselessly claimed anew that he had won the election and uttered repeated falsehoods as he called into an event held by Pennsylvania Republicans to investigate unproven allegations of voter fraud.“This was an election that we won easily. We won it by a lot,” Trump declared to the group gathered at a hotel in Gettysburg. Trump, in fact, lost to President-elect Joe Biden by about 80,000 votes in the state, and Pennsylvania certified Biden as the winner on Tuesday.The Pennsylvania event was the latest attempt by Trump and his lawyer Rudy...…WASHINGTON --U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday baselessly claimed anew that he had won the election and uttered repeated falsehoods as he called into an event held by Pennsylvania Republicans to investigate unproven allegations of voter fraud.“This was an election that we won easily. We won it by a lot,” Trump declared to the group gathered at a hotel in Gettysburg. Trump, in fact, lost to President-elect Joe Biden by about 80,000 votes in the state, and Pennsylvania certified Biden as the winner on Tuesday.The Pennsylvania event was the latest attempt by Trump and his lawyer Rudy...WW…