The 416-0 vote Wednesday underscores the bipartisan outrage over the shooting at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
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The 20-year-old Pennsylvania man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump had photos on his phone of the former Republican president, President Joe Biden and other officials, including Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray.
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An expert on mass shootings discussed how the research into mass shootings today was born out of research that looked at political assassination attempts. The profiles of the two kinds of shooters can be very similar, he says.
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Fifty-year-old Corey Comperatore had worked as a project engineer, Army reservist and volunteer firefighter. He was killed at a weekend rally for former President Donald Trump.
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Corrections officers say they’re struggling with low morale and poor mental health thanks to deteriorating working conditions at the facility.
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WESA analyzed the public statements of two dozen people who knew Thomas Matthew Crooks and have spoken in media reports — the majority of whom were classmates of Crooks at Bethel Park High School. The list also includes a handful of neighbors and people at the college he attended. While most of these people say they didn’t know him well, a portrait of how he appeared to the people with whom he had small interactions through his days is becoming more clear.
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Multiple state prisons in Pennsylvania lack air conditioning, leaving thousands of incarcerated people at risk during increasingly common high temperatures.
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The EPA rule addresses cross-state air pollution from power plants and other facilities, but the Supreme Court blocked it from taking effect as a full challenge makes its way through federal courts.
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Federal investigators have released the name of the man they say sought to assassinate Donald Trump at a Beaver County rally on Saturday, but much else about Thomas Matthew Crooks remained a mystery on Sunday.
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As the federal case against former DuBois City Manager Herm Suplizio is beset by delays, officials in the small Pennsylvania city confront a nearly $1 million budget deficit.
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Pittsburgh is spending most of its share of a settlement with opioid manufacturers on a diversion program that aims to put people accused of low-level crimes into treatment rather than jail.