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Mandy Steele, the Democratic candidate for the 33rd State House District, defeated Republican Ted Tomson to represent the newly drawn district that includes Alle-Kiski towns from Harrison to Aspinwall. As of Wednesday afternoon, Steele of Fox Chapel captured about 55% of the votes compared to Tomson of Fawn, who earned...

Democrat John Fetterman earned a hard-fought win over Republican opponent Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania’s pivotal U.S. Senate race. Oz called Fetterman early Wednesday morning to concede the race, according to the Fetterman campaign. Fetterman had collected about 51% of the votes counted compared with 47% for Oz, according to...

State Rep. Summer Lee defeated Plum Councilman Mike Doyle on Tuesday night in Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District and is poised to become the state’s first Black woman in Congress. With 97% of the district’s precincts reporting results just before midnight, the Democrat Lee had collected 55.5% of the votes counted...

Iraq War veteran and voting rights attorney Chris Deluzio defeated former Ross Commissioner Jeremy Shaffer in Pennsylvania’s newly redrawn 17th Congressional District. The district includes all of Beaver County and part of Allegheny County. Most of the area has been represented by U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb, who chose not to...

The close races for Pennsylvania’s next governor and for its open U.S. Senate seat were the top draws as Western Pa. voters made their way to the polls Tuesday. Overnight, Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman was declared the winner of the Senate seat, and Pa. Attorney General Josh Shapiro had...

Final voting began without major hitches Tuesday in midterm elections under intense scrutiny after two years of false claims and conspiracy theories about how ballots are cast and counted. With polls open across most of the country, no big problems were reported early on, though there were hiccups in some...

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman’s campaign for U.S. Senate has joined the legal fight over whether mail ballots with no date or the incorrect date should be counted in Tuesday’s election. The Democratic campaign sued state elections officials Monday asking a federal judge to order that all mail ballots be...

With Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race between Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz remaining razor close heading into Election Day, the campaigns are looking for votes wherever they can find them. And that includes ones from voters in opposing political parties. Voters who are registered with one political party...

Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s four living former governors on Monday sent a letter to the main party candidates vying for the position...

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz has scheduled his election night party at an upscale Bucks County fitness club whose owner organized three buses to the Jan. 6, 2021, rally through a political action committee. Oz’s party is set for the Newtown Athletic Club, which offers on its website...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Dr. Frank Annie sees desperation in his hospital, where 30- and 40-year-olds come in with organ failure after injecting opioids with dirty needles. Joe Solomon finds it in the faces of those who line up in the church gyms and parking lots where he passes out overdose...

With Election Day around the corner, local party leaders differ in their concerns about the safety of politicians and party members, even amid recent acts of political violence nationwide. As recently as Wednesday, a U.S. Senate candidate from New Hampshire was reported to have nearly been punched before a debate....

Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — More than 1.4 million people in Pennsylvania requested to vote by mail for the Nov. 8 election, but county...

A pro-Israel political action committee is spending nearly $1 million to air ads attacking Democratic congressional candidate Summer Lee in the final stretch of the race. Some local and national Jewish groups are calling out the ads from United Democracy Project, a PAC tied to the American Israel Public Affairs...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s former senior counselor Kellyanne Conway said she expects the ex-president to announce a widely anticipated comeback bid for the White House “soon.” Conway, who became the first woman to steer a winning presidential campaign with Trump’s surprise 2016 victory, said that she advised her former boss...

HARRISBURG — TV icon Oprah Winfrey on Thursday endorsed Democrat John Fetterman in Pennsylvania’s hotly contested Senate race and rejected Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz, whom she had helped launch to stardom nearly two decades ago when she brought him on her popular daytime talk show as a regular guest. Until...

In addition to high-profile races for governor, U.S. Senate, Congress and the state Legislature, Allegheny County voters will have at least one ballot question to consider when they go to the polls Tuesday. County residents will decide whether sitting Allegheny County Council members should be able to run for other...

Former President Barack Obama will headline a rally for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman in Schenley Plaza in Oakland on Saturday. This is the first time Obama has visited Pittsburgh for a political rally in several years. The program will begin at noon, but attendees can arrive as early...

HARRISBURG — A Canadian university that granted a doctorate in history to Doug Mastriano nearly a decade before he became the Republican nominee for governor of Pennsylvania is investigating a fresh complaint about his work that makes multiple allegations of academic fraud in his recently public dissertation. University of New...

Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano rallied Wednesday evening in Bethel Park and went on the offensive against his opponent, Democrat Josh Shapiro, blaming him for rising crime rates and shutdowns early in the pandemic. “The problem is Josh Shapiro and how he blindly followed the (Gov. Tom Wolf) administration. He...

Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano rallied Wednesday evening in Bethel Park and went on the offensive against his opponent, Democrat Josh Shapiro, blaming him for rising crime rates and shutdowns early in the pandemic. “The problem is Josh Shapiro and how he blindly followed the (Gov. Tom Wolf) administration. He...

First lady Jill Biden joined fellow teachers at the American Federation of Teachers site in Pittsburgh’s South Side Flats neighborhood to encourage them to vote for Democratic candidates down the ballot next Tuesday. The first lady brought her get-out-the-vote bus tour to Pittsburgh to stump for Summer Lee, who is...

Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — In the waning days of summer, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra embarked on a whirlwind, nine-city European tour — its...

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — President Joe Biden on Tuesday lashed out at Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis as “Donald Trump incarnate,” zeroing in on a potential 2024 GOP presidential contender as he campaigned for Democrats facing uphill fights in next week’s midterm election. In a final-week sprint for Democrats before...