November 2, 2024 4:29 am
NEW YORK (AP) — The 2024 presidential contest speeds into its final weekend with Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump locked in a razor-thin contest. In a race this close, every day matters. And while few voters might change their minds this late in a typical election, there is a sense that what happens in these final days could shift votes. Harris and Trump are crisscrossing the country to rally voters in the states that matter most. They’re trying — with varying degrees of success — to stay focused on a clear and concise closing message. Each side is investing massive resources to drive up turnout for the final early voting period. And the flow of misinformation is intensifying.
November 2, 2024 4:25 am
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have hosted dueling rallies within miles of each other in a fevered final push for votes in swing state Wisconsin’s largest city. Milwaukee is home to the most Democratic votes in Wisconsin, but its conservative suburbs are where most Republicans live and are a critical area for Trump as he tries to reclaim the state he narrowly won in 2016 but lost in 2020. Trump was in downtown Milwaukee, while Harris was in a nearby suburb. The rallies Friday may be the candidates’ last appearances in battleground Wisconsin before Election Day.
November 2, 2024 4:33 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has spent months laying the groundwork to challenge the results of the 2024 election if he loses. Rally after rally, he urges his supporters to deliver a victory “too big to rig,” telling them the only way he can lose is if Democrats cheat. He has refused to say, when asked on repeat occasions, whether he will accept the results regardless of the outcome. And he’s claimed cheating is already underway. The comments echo those he made four years ago, when Trump declared victory before votes were counted and refused to accept his defeat, culminating in the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
November 2, 2024 4:22 am
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal jury has convicted a former Kentucky detective of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor the night she was shot to death by police officers in 2020. The 12-member jury returned the late night verdict after clearing Brett Hankison earlier in the evening on a charge that he used excessive force on Taylor’s neighbors. Taylor was fatally shot by other officers. A separate jury deadlocked on similar charges last year, forcing a mistrial. It was the first conviction of a Louisville police officer involved in the deadly raid. The death of the 26-year-old Black woman sparked racial injustice protests nationwide.
November 2, 2024 4:14 am
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in Pennsylvania. The justices on Friday left in place a state Supreme Court ruling that elections officials must count provisional ballots cast by voters whose mail-in ballots were rejected. As of Thursday, about 9,000 ballots out of more than 1.6 million returned have arrived at elections offices around Pennsylvania lacking a secrecy envelope, a signature or a date, according to state records. Pennsylvania is the biggest presidential election battleground this year, with 19 electoral votes. Former President Donald Trump won the state in 2016, then lost it in 2020.
November 2, 2024 4:02 am
A Washington man pleaded guilty to fraud in federal court. Walter Holt III, 35 pleaded guilty to two fraud counts. According to the investigation, Holt prepared and submitted falsified Payment Protection Program (PPP) Covid-19 relief loan applications for borrowers in Charleroi for which he took a fee. Holt is scheduled to be sentenced on January 31, 2025. He could receive a sentence of 40 years in prison, a fine of $1 million, or both.
November 2, 2024 1:36 am
(WPXI) – Vice President Kamala Harris will hold a rally in Pittsburgh on Monday, the day before Election Day. Harris is scheduled to hold a “Get Out the Vote” concert at Point State Park from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Downtown Pittsburgh. Performers for the concert have not yet been announced. Meanwhile, Former President Donald Trump will also hold a rally at PPG Paints Arena on the same day. Both Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have made dozens of stops in what is considered the country’s largest battleground state, including several in the Pittsburgh area. (Photo: AP)
November 1, 2024 8:44 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers added just 12,000 jobs in October, a total that economists say was held down by the effects of strikes and hurricanes that left many workers temporarily off payrolls. The report provided a somewhat blurry view of the job market at the end of a presidential race that has pivoted heavily on voters’ feelings about the economy. Last month’s hiring gain was down significantly from the 223,000 jobs that were added in September. But economists have estimated that Hurricanes Helene and Milton, combined with strikes at Boeing and elsewhere, had the effect of pushing down net job growth by tens of thousands of jobs in October. The unemployment rate remained at a low 4.1%.
November 1, 2024 3:49 am
Washington County Coroner Tim Warco has identified the passenger killed in a head-on crash Tuesday night in Fallowfield Township as 36-year-old Tiffany Rider of Uniontown. The accident happened just before nine o’clock in the six-hundred block of Old Route 71. Warco says Rider was a front-seat passenger in the vehicle that was traveling east when an oncoming vehicle traveling west crossed the center line and collided head-on. Warco says Rider was not wearing a seatbelt. Four people were airlifted to hospitals while one person was taken to a local hospital in an ambulance. State Police continue to investigate the cause of the crash.
November 1, 2024 2:53 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The national and state Republican parties are appealing a Pennsylvania court ruling that would relax the rules for mail ballots. The GOP filed an emergency request on Thursday that asks the state Supreme Court to put on hold a lower-court ruling that says the envelopes voters use to send in mail ballots don’t need to have been accurately hand-dated. The Republican groups say that if the high court doesn’t stay the Commonwealth Court order, it should at least modify it to say it’s not in force for the voting that concludes on Tuesday. The Commonwealth Court ruled Wednesday that 69 mail ballots should be counted in two Philadelphia special elections last month. (Photo: AP)
