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A bill in the state Senate would guarantee app-based service workers a limited set of benefits, but labor advocates say drivers would ultimately lose out amid an ongoing legal battle over how those workers are classified. The bill would require network companies that employ drivers and couriers through phone-based applications...

NEW YORK — Nearly a decade into the Trump Era of politics, less than a month from his third Election Day as the Republican candidate for president and there is still remarkably little consensus within the media about how best to cover Donald Trump. Are reporters “sanewashing” Trump, or are...

WASHINGTON — Thousands of copies of Donald Trump’s “God Bless the USA” Bible were printed in a country that the former president has repeatedly accused of stealing American jobs and engaging in unfair trade practices — China. Global trade records reviewed by The Associated Press show a printing company in...

WAUKEGAN, Ill. — On a table at the office of the Waukegan Township Democrats sits a box of postcards with Wisconsin addresses that were collected during a postcard-writing pizza party to help turn out voters there. Leaning against the table are homemade Harris-Walz signs. “We know they’re handing these out...

Only having cash to pay for a ticket to a school-sponsored activity would no longer stop anyone from gaining entry under legislation that passed the state Senate on Monday. The bill, sponsored by Republican Sen. Cris Dush, would require schools to accept cash as an optional means of buying a...

Pennsylvania is a prime battleground state in the 2024 presidential race. And Western Pennsylvania has become a must-stop campaign swing for Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. July included major turning points in the campaigns — a gunman attempted to assassinate Trump on July 13 in Butler...

A retired Marine three-star general and a Republican ex-congressman from Connecticut visited Pittsburgh Tuesday to stump for Vice President Kamala Harris and portray her rival, Donald Trump, as a threat to the U.S. Constitution. Retired Lt. Gen. Richard L. Kelly, a Pittsburgh native and Penn State University graduate, and former...

Election day in Pennsylvania is Tuesday, Nov. 5. Voters will head to the poll to cast their ballot for president. Their choices, if you haven’t heard, are Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump. The two rivals have made many visits to Western Pa. to make their case...

NEW YORK — A former New York City official was charged Tuesday with witness tampering and destroying evidence in a federal investigation that led to Mayor Eric Adams’ bribery indictment. The arrest came amid yet more high-profile exits from Adams’ administration. Federal prosecutors allege that Mohamed Bahi, who resigned Monday...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is making a rare jump into the 2024 political battleground fray since taking a step back after ending his reelection bid. He’ll campaign on Tuesday in Pennsylvania for a close ally and visit Wisconsin to spotlight a signature legislative achievement. But as Biden makes a...

NEW YORK — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday suggested that migrants who are in the U.S. and have committed murder did so because “it’s in their genes.” There are, he added, “a lot of bad genes in our country right now.” It’s the latest example of Trump alleging...

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday called former President Donald Trump “incredibly irresponsible” for spreading falsehoods about the federal response to Hurricane Helene ‘s destruction, offering especially sharp words as a new storm bears down on Florida with just weeks until Election Day. “There’s a lot of mis-...

WASHINGTON — Black registered voters have an overwhelmingly positive view of Vice President Kamala Harris, but they’re less sure that she would change the country for the better, according to a recent poll from the  AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The poll, which was conducted in mid-September, found about 7 in 10 Black...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans. The justices did not detail their reasoning for keeping in place a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required...

Donald Trump has pledged to end taxes on everything from tips to Social Security and overtime pay if he’s elected to the White House again. But he hasn’t detailed how he would fund those ideas and avoid creating a huge budget shortfall, beyond arguing he will usher in an economic...

WASHINGTON — No one is likely to be happy with the projected higher deficits laid out in a new analysis of Kamala Harris’ and Donald Trump’s economic plans. The analysis released Monday by the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget suggests a Harris presidency could increase the national debt...

Jacki Quinto traveled more than 1,300 miles from Amarillo, Texas, to see former President Donald Trump return to the Butler County site where a bullet grazed his right ear in an attempted assassination in July. “I think it’s very important to be here now,” she said, adding she wasn’t surprised...

Former President Donald Trump returned to Butler County on Saturday, fulfilling a pledge and providing over 20,000 of his supporters with a spectacle of patriotism and showmanship, as well as honoring the victims of the Trump rally shooting that occurred on that same ground less than three months earlier. Security...

WASHINGTON — On the last day of August, President Joe Biden was asked about his fall campaign plans. He promised a Labor Day appearance in Pittsburgh and said he would be “on the road from there on.” Biden did campaign with Vice President Kamala Harris on Labor Day, but he...

A rural Colorado county courthouse beefed up security Friday after threats were made against staff and a judge who sentenced former county clerk Tina Peters to nearly nine years behind bars and admonished her for her role in a data breach scheme catalyzed by the lie that the 2020 election...

WASHINGTON — Days before rioters roamed the halls of the U.S. Capitol threatening to “hang Mike Pence,” Donald Trump told his vice president that people are going to “hate your guts” and “think you’re stupid” if he failed to stop the 2020 election certification. The New Year’s Day warning wasn’t...

DETROIT — Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the union stronghold of Flint, Michigan, on Friday as she battles with Donald Trump for working-class voters who could tip the scales in this year’s election. Her appearance in the battleground state comes the day after U.S. dockworkers suspended their strike in...

Vice President Kamala Harris has recruited two rock stars to her campaign, and they will hold a free concert in Pittsburgh on Friday. Michael Stipe, the front man of alt-rock legends R.E.M., and country-rock star Jason Isbell will host a Get Out the Vote concert on Friday night in Pittsburgh....

Former President Trump and his running mate Ohio Sen. JD Vance were both feeling gracious on their last trips through the Pittsburgh area. Trump gave $100 to a woman purchasing groceries at Sprankle’s Supermarket in Kittanning on Sept. 23. Sprankle’s also has locations in Saxonburg and Leechburg. “It just went...