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Michigan building inspector cut by razor-embedded Trump sign
OAKLAND, Mich. — A Commerce Township building inspector needed 13 stitches after cutting his hand on a booby-trapped political sign. The Trump sign was lined with taped-on razors at the bottom, and the 52-year-old worker cut his hand as he tried to move it. The sign tampering is the latest...
Trump: Justice Dept. had ‘plenty of time’ for Durham probe
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday piled more criticism on the status of the Justice Department’s investigation into the origins of the Russia probe, after reports that Attorney General William Barr has said not to expect conclusions before Election Day. Trump and Barr are increasingly at odds over the...
White House ups offer in virus aid before talks with Pelosi
WASHINGTON — The White House is boosting its offer in up-and-down COVID-19 aid talks Friday in hopes of an agreement before Election Day, even as President Donald Trump’s most powerful GOP ally in the Senate said Congress is unlikely to deliver relief by then. Trump on Friday took to Twitter...
Pelosi unveils 25th Amendment bid, questions Trump’s fitness
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled legislation Friday that would allow Congress to intervene under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to remove the president, insisting it’s not about President Donald Trump but inspired by the need for greater congressional oversight of his White House. Pelosi has been raising...
Judge denies motion to extend Florida’s voter registration
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A federal judge has denied a motion to extend voter registration in Florida even though a computer meltdown on the final day of registration might have prevented thousands of potential voters from taking part in November’s presidential election. In a 29-page ruling on Friday morning, U.S. District...
Next Trump-Biden debates uncertain, though Oct. 22 is likelyVideo
WASHINGTON — The campaign’s final debates between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden were thrown into uncertainty Thursday as the rival camps offered dueling proposals for the remaining faceoffs that have been upended by the president’s coronavirus infection. The chair of the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates told The...
Lara Trump in North Hills: President Trump ‘wants to get back out’ on campaign trail ASAP
Barely a week after testing positive for covid-19, President Donald Trump is feeling energetic and eager to jump back on the campaign trail, his daughter-in-law said Thursday while stumping in Western Pennsylvania. Lara Trump, senior campaign adviser and wife of Trump’s son Eric, shrugged off tweets from local Democratic elected...
Biden calls out Trump for calling Kamala Harris ‘a monster’Video
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is calling on President Donald Trump to cease insults on running mate Sen. Kamala Harris after Trump called her a “monster” and a “communist” on Thursday during an interview on Fox Business. Trump made the comments to host Maria Bartiromo in reference to Harris’ performance...
Shapiro preparing for additional court battles as election nears
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said he has teams preparing for any election law challenges that may be filed between now and after polls close Nov. 3, even as he awaits court rulings on several GOP challenges. With 26 days remaining until the election and about 2.5 million mail and...
Mitch McConnell hasn’t been to White House in months, citing lax covid-19 measures
Sen. Mitch McConnell has been avoiding the White House like the plague. The Republican majority leader said Thursday that has purposely refused to see President Donald Trump in person at the White House, citing lax precautions against the spread of covid-19. “Their approach to how to handle this was different...
Vice presidential debate draws more than 50 million TV viewers, a major spike over 2016Video
The vice presidential debate drew more than 50.7 million viewers on Wednesday, a significant jump over the last meeting of running mates in 2016. Preliminary Nielsen data showed the total audience across the major broadcast and cable networks for the showdown between Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris...
Prominent GOP fundraiser charged in covert lobbying effort
WASHINGTON — Elliott Broidy, a prominent fundraiser for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, has been charged in an illicit lobbying campaign aimed at getting the Trump administration to drop an investigation into the multibillion-dollar looting of a Malaysian state investment fund. Broidy is the latest person accused by...
Takeaways from the vice presidential debate between Harris and PenceVideo
SALT LAKE CITY — For 90 minutes, the understudies had their moment. Vice President Mike Pence and California Sen. Kamala Harris faced each other behind plexiglass partitions in a low-key debate that was peevish but generally polite. Their clash probably won’t have much effect on who wins the White House,...
Pence, Harris face off on covid-19 in VP debate
SALT LAKE CITY — Vice President Mike Pence defended the Trump administration’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than 210,000 Americans Wednesday night, while his Democratic challenger, Kamala Harris, condemned “the greatest failure of any presidential administration” during a largely civil debate dominated by the coronavirus. With...
‘A blessing in disguise’: Trump hails experimental treatment for his coronavirus recoveryVideo
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday credited an experimental drug treatment with helping his recovery from covid-19 and suggested his diagnosis could be a “blessing in disguise” in the nation’s battle against the pandemic. But there is no way for the president or his doctors to know whether the...
Facebook braces for contested election, voter intimidation
OAKLAND, Calif. — Facebook said it’s readied new safeguards for the 2020 U.S. elections that have it better prepared to deal with candidates who prematurely declare victory or contest official results and the possibility of voter intimidation by alleged — and potentially armed — “poll watchers.” In the former case,...
Now a covid-19 hot spot, White House struggles to workVideo
WASHINGTON — In a tableau befitting a surreal election season, there may be more raccoons around the White House than actual staff now — and a contagious president sneaking into the West Wing. With the iconic white-columned building now a coronavirus hot zone, and a pack of hungry raccoons near...
‘Naked Celebs’ star in political PSA about ‘naked ballots,’ following example of Allegheny County polsVideo
It’s not enough for Pennsylvania elected officials to get naked to promote proper voting procedures in the November election. Celebrities are getting in on the action, too. In a viral video released today, titled “These Naked Celebs Have an Important Message for Voters,” well-known comedians and actors are shown naked...
In about-face, Trump seeks to salvage parts of virus aid
WASHINGTON — The White House on Wednesday tried to salvage its favorite items lost in the rubble of COVID-19 relief talks that President Donald Trump blew up, with his administration pressing for $1,200 stimulus checks and a new wave of aid for airlines and other businesses hard hit by the...
Appeals court: Trump must turn over taxes to prosecutor
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s accountant must turn over his tax records to a New York state prosecutor, an appeals court ruled Wednesday in a decision that likely sets up a second trip to the U.S. Supreme Court over the issue. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in...
Airline shares get a boost from Trump’s late tweets
SILVER SPRING, Md. — Shares in major U.S. airlines were poised for gains Wednesday after President Donald Trump tweeted his support for a relief package for the struggling industry and prodded Congress to take action. “The House & Senate should IMMEDIATELY Approve 25 Billion Dollars for Airline Payroll Support,” Trump...
Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden endorses Joe Biden for presidentVideo
Retired Gen. Michael Hayden needed to get some things off his chest about the current presidential campaign. Hayden, the Pittsburgh native who served as director of the CIA under former President George W. Bush and director of the National Security Agency, released a video late Tuesday which boiled down to,...
Biden in Gettysburg: ‘Once again, we are a house divided’Video
GETTYSBURG — Joe Biden on Tuesday made an impassioned plea for national unity and bipartisan cooperation in a speech casting the 2020 election as a “battle for the soul of the nation,” with the Civil War’s most famous battlefield as his backdrop. “There’s no more fitting place than here today...
Rendell and Toomey join in congressional term limits proposalVideo
If past is prologue, a proposal from U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Lehigh Valley, and former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell seeking 34 states to force a Constitutional Convention to consider congressional term limits may be as unlikely as the partners who put out the call for it Tuesday. Just one day...
Trump halts covid-19 relief talks until after electionVideo
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday called an abrupt end to negotiations with Democrats over additional covid-19 relief, delaying action until after the election despite ominous warnings from his own Federal Reserve chairman about the deteriorating conditions in the economy. Trump tweeted that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was “not...
