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Republican state lawmakers are criticizing the decision by Pennsylvania’s top election official to decertify the voting machines of a sparsely populated county. -
In House and Senate hearings this week state lawmakers pushed for more oversight as health officials doubled down on its needs to secure emergency contracts for contact tracing and COVID-19 tests.
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President Joe Biden will head to the Allentown area Wednesday as he fights for passage in the Senate of a nearly $1 trillion infrastructure measure that a bipartisan group of senators brokered with him.
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Republicans are more likely than Democrats to think democracy is in crisis, by 48 to 25%. In 2018, more Democrats than Republicans thought that.
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Known as the Indians since 1915, Cleveland’s Major League Baseball team will be called Guardians. The ballclub announced the name change on Twitter, ending months of internal discussions triggered by a national reckoning by institutions and teams to permanently drop logos and names considered racist.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers experienced a significant amount of turnover during the offseason, yet they opened training camp on Thursday with the same lofty Super Bowl expectations. Veteran QB Ben Roethlisberger returns for his 18th season, this time behind a revamped offensive line.
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Acting Health Commissioner Dr. Cheryl Bettigole said the city is seeing a “small but disturbing” increase in hospitalizations due to COVID-19 among children, along with more than a doubling of cases. Over the past two weeks, Philadelphia has averaged 64 new cases of COVID-19 per day.
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Philadelphia's district attorney is suing the Pennsylvania’s attorney general over the proposed $26 billion national opioid settlement. DA Larry Krasner says the city stands to get only a pittance to cope with an epidemic that is killing more than 1,000 people a year.
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The Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium will soon welcome visitors to its first-ever Asian Lantern Festival, featuring more than 40 glowing animal sculptures installed throughout the zoo.
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The park played a central role in negotiations over the former Penn Plaza Apartments.
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Work by 13 artists without formal training will open a new venue in Carnegie.
More than 1,000 potential cases of a mysterious disease affecting songbirds were reported across Pennsylvania during the July 4th weekend. That’s up from just 70 at the beginning of the month.
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