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A traveler adjusts her mask while waiting to check in for her flight at the Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020. About 1 million Americans a day packed airports and planes over the weekend even as coronavirus deaths surged across the U.S. and public health experts begged people to stay home and avoid big Thanksgiving gatherings. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) CAJH107 CAJH107

November 23, 2020 at 10:33 pm

Thanksgiving could make or break US coronavirus response

The nation’s top health officials are pleading with Americans to avoid Thanksgiving travel and there's some evidence that the holiday will be quieter -- but... Updated 5:59 pm

November 2, 2020 at 2:30 pm

No, Pennsylvania isn’t trying to disenfranchise COVID voters

Conservative commentator Wendy Bell falsely claimed Monday that the administration of Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is attempting to “silence voters” by ordering people who were...

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First lady Melania Trump speaks during a campaign rally on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020, in Atglen, Pa. (AP Photo/Laurence Kesterson) PALK108 PALK108

October 27, 2020 at 1:57 pm

Melania Trump slams Biden, Dems in first solo campaign stop

ATGLEN, Pa. (AP) — Melania Trump lined up squarely with her husband Tuesday on her first solo trip of the 2020 campaign, slamming Joe Biden,...

October 9, 2020 at 10:14 am

Ex-Philadelphia cop charged in fatal shooting of Black man

A white former Philadelphia police officer was charged Friday with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a Black man after a high-speed car chase...

September 30, 2020 at 6:56 am

School officials charged with hiding lead, asbestos problems

The former superintendent of a Pennsylvania school district and two other officials were charged Wednesday with felony child endangerment over allegations they covered up lead...

August 26, 2020 at 7:27 am

Kids-for-cash judge loses bid for lighter prison sentence

A federal judge upheld the 28-year prison sentence of a disgraced Pennsylvania judge who locked up thousands of juvenile offenders while he was taking kickbacks...

August 8, 2020 at 7:16 am

Schools face big virus test as students return to classroom VIEW

Reopening schools is easy. Keeping them open will be the hard part. As educators prepare to welcome students back to class for the first time...

July 24, 2020 at 9:10 pm

Trump plays on fears in play for the suburbs

QUAKERTOWN, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump this week sent a message to “The Suburban Housewives of America," and in a single tweet summed up...

July 21, 2020 at 11:20 am

Transgender official takes abuse while leading virus efforts

Many of the attacks against Pennsylvania’s health secretary have little to do with the way she has handled the statewide response to the coronavirus pandemic....

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July 17, 2020 at 12:44 pm

DA: No basis for charges against cop who put knee on head

A Pennsylvania police officer was justified when he pressed his knee into an intoxicated man’s head while restraining him outside a hospital, a prosecutor said...