Trump campaign sues Bucks County to extend mail ballot application deadline amid long lines
HARRISBURG — Donald Trump’s campaign filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania on Wednesday in hopes of briefly extending an in-person voting option in one suburban Philadelphia county where long lines on the final day spurred complaints that voters were being disenfranchised by an unprepared election office. The lawsuit, filed in the...
At least 95 people die in devastating flash floods in Spain
BARCELONA, Spain — Flash floods in Spain turned village streets into rivers, ruined homes, disrupted transportation and killed at least 95 people in the worst natural disaster to hit the European nation in recent memory. Rainstorms that started Tuesday and continued Wednesday caused flooding across southern and eastern Spain, stretching...
Donald Trump hired him to find voting fraud. He debunked it instead
ATLANTA — Four years ago, Donald Trump insisted that voting fraud cost him the election, and he hired Ken Block to prove it. A data analyst, Block did his best, searching for dead voters, double-voting and absentee ballot fraud. But he found only about a dozen examples of fraud in...
Teen Trump supporter charged with threatening Harris supporters with machete
An 18-year-old Donald Trump supporter is facing a felony charge after police say he threatened two Kamala Harris supporters with a two-foot machete as they campaigned outside a Florida early voting site. Caleb James Williams is charged with felony aggravated assault on a person 65 or older and misdemeanor exhibition...
Supreme Court’s conservative justices leave in place Virginia’s purge of voter registrations
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday left in place Virginia’s purge voter registrations that the state says is aimed at stopping people who are not U.S. citizens from voting. One Virginian, whose registration was canceled despite living in the state her entire life, called the purge “a...
Gallery: Photos from Oct. 30, 2024
Embark on a visual journey around the Western Pennsylvania region — and the world — with TribLive’s latest collection of captivating images for Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. From the rustic landscapes of Western Pa. to diverse corners of the globe, experience the shared moments of humanity....
Podcast: A look back at a historic campaign season in Western Pennsylvania
The 2024 presidential election is nearing its conclusion, with Election Day less than a week away. For Pennsylvanians, this election season has been marked by energy and purpose. Several significant events have made this election memorable. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump faced off in a debate that...
In a first since 1938, Des Moines, Iowa, kids will trick-or-treat on Halloween
DES MOINES, Iowa — For the first time since 1938, children in Des Moines, Iowa, will go trick-or-treating on Halloween. Going door-to-door for candy on All Hallows’ Eve has long been commonplace throughout the country. But not in Des Moines, where Iowa’s capital city took a different approach more than...
Democrats are leaning on celebrity star power. Will it matter?
WASHINGTON — Kamala Harris has Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift and Beyoncé. Donald Trump has Kid Rock, Waka Flocka Flame and Hulk Hogan. As the 2024 campaign whirls into its final week, Democrats are noticeably leaning on their star power advantage, calling on a diverse range of celebrities to endorse Harris,...
Inside ‘the weave’: How Donald Trump’s rhetoric has grown darker and windier
DULUTH, Ga. — No scene has dominated U.S. politics since 2015 quite like Donald Trump on stage, waxing on for an hour-plus in front of a chorus of red “Make America Great Again” hats. The stream-of-consciousness routine, the interrupting one of his thoughts with the next, is not a polemic...
We may not know the next president on Election Day. This Arizona swing county could be why
PHOENIX — Inside a squat building ringed with a chainlink fence and concrete barriers in downtown Phoenix, election workers on Nov. 5 will begin a grindingly slow tally of every ballot cast in the vast expanse of stucco and saguaro that is Maricopa County, Arizona. In what has become the...
Biden suggests Trump supporters are ‘garbage’ after comic’s insult of Puerto Rico
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden took a swipe against Donald Trump’s supporters on Tuesday as he reacted to the Republican presidential nominee’s weekend rally at Madison Square Garden, which was overshadowed by crude and racist rhetoric. In a call organized by the Hispanic advocacy group Voto Latino, Biden responded to...
Activists are challenging the eligibility of hundreds of voters in Philly’s suburbs. Experts say the effort is legally baseless
PHILADELPHIA — In what appears to be an organized effort, right-leaning activists have challenged the mail ballot applications of hundreds of voters in suburban Philadelphia in recent days, claiming their targets no longer live at the addresses where they are registered to vote. But voting rights advocates broadly dismiss the...
Harris urges voters to reject Trump’s efforts to sow division and fearVideo
WASHINGTON — Kamala Harris stood before an overflowing crowd near the White House on Tuesday and promised Americans she would fight for them every day as she urged voters to reject Donald Trump’s efforts to sow division and fear, declaring, “It doesn’t have to be this way.” One week out...
Supreme Court rejects push to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from ballot in 2 swing states
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an emergency appeal to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the presidential ballot in two battleground states. Kennedy wanted to get off the ballot in Wisconsin and Michigan after dropping his independent bid and endorsing Republican Donald Trump in the tight contest....
CNN bans conservative writer after ‘beeper’ comment to Muslim commentatorVideo
NEW YORK — CNN has banned conservative writer Ryan Girdusky from the network as a result of a contentious on-air exchange in which he told panelist Mehdi Hasan that “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off.” “Did you just say I should die?” Hasan asked. He was responding to Girdusky’s...
Man serving 30 years for attacking Nancy Pelosi’s husband gets life term on state charges
SAN FRANCISCO — The man who was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for attacking the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a hammer in their California home was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole following a separate state trial. A San...
Where has all the rain gone? Bone-dry October strikes much of U.S.
A bone-dry October is pushing nearly half of the United States into a flash drought, leading to fires in the Midwest and hindering shipping on the Mississippi River. More than 100 different long-term weather stations in 26 states, including Alaska, are having their driest October on record, through Sunday, according...
Judge tosses GOP congressmen’s lawsuit over Pennsylvania’s overseas and military votes
HARRISBURG — A federal judge on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit by six Republican members of Congress seeking to make Pennsylvania election officials institute new checks confirming the eligibility and identity of soldiers, sailors and others who vote from overseas. U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner said he agreed with the...
Putin launches drills of Russia’s nuclear forces simulating retaliatory strikes
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday launched a massive exercise of the country’s nuclear forces featuring missile launches in a simulation of a retaliatory strike, as he continued to flex the country’s nuclear muscle amid spiraling tensions with the West over Ukraine. Speaking in a video call with...
Trump says his New York rally marked by crude and racist insults was ‘an absolute lovefest’
ALLENTOWN — Urged by some allies to apologize for racist comments made by speakers at his weekend rally, Donald Trump took the opposite approach on Tuesday, saying it was an “honor to be involved” in such an event and calling the scene a “lovefest” — the same term he has...
Harris reaches for a big moment in her closing argument for ‘turning the page’ on Trump
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris is making the ” closing argument ” for her presidential campaign Tuesday from the same site where Donald Trump in 2021 fomented the Capitol insurrection, hoping it offers a stark visualization of the alternate futures that voters face if she or Trump takes over...
1 week to go: What are presidential candidates up to today?
Time flies! We’re one week out from Election Day and the presidential race still looks tight. The whole country will be looking to battleground state Pennsylvania on Nov. 5. Here’s a look at where the race stands today. Where is everyone? Republican candidate former President Donald Trump kicked off his...
Pennsylvania’s Catholics are divided over an election where their votes may be decisive
PITTSBURGH — Nationally, Catholic voters have been a crucial swing constituency in recent presidential elections. This year, in the vital state of Pennsylvania, they’ll likely comprise at least a quarter of the electorate — and thus play a pivotal role in deciding the overall outcome. There’s been a see-saw effect...
Gallery: Photos from Oct. 29, 2024
Embark on a visual journey around the Western Pennsylvania region — and the world — with TribLive’s latest collection of captivating images for Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. From the rustic landscapes of Western Pa. to diverse corners of the globe, experience the shared moments of humanity....
