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)
November 1, 2024 2:21 am
Senator Bob Casey was in Washington Thursday on a campaign swing through western Pennsylvania. Casey was accompanied by Pennsylvania junior Senator John Fetterman and Pennsylvania Attorney General Candidate Eugene DePasquale. Casey outlined for supporters why he feels that he is the candidate of choice for all residents of Washington County. He outlined benefits to county residents that he voted for in Washington D.C. just in his last term. Those benefits were varied and included the $1 million West Wheeling Street Bridge over Catfish Creek in the City of Washington through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, $36 million in school funding through the American Rescue Plan Act, and $35 insulin price caps for seniors through the Inflation Reduction Act. He made comparisons between him and what his opponent may favor by indicating he is there for all Pennsylvanians as opposed to Dave McCormick, who he says has policies that favor only those who are the wealthiest of his constituents. Casey thanked his supporters and encouraged them to keep knocking on doors through election day.
November 1, 2024 2:45 am
United States Senator Bob Casey visited Washington County on a campaign stop and addressed the closing of the Corelle Glass factory in Charleroi. Casey said that he has released a report outlining questionable practices of the private equity firm Centre Lane Partners who are moving forward with the closure of the plant and moving operations to Lancaster, Ohio. Casey said that he is using every tool available including investigation and litigation to halt the closure asking the FTC to investigate the method of how Centre Lane Partners became owners of the plant. Daniele Byrne, Vice President of United Steelworkers Union 53G said that the owners of the plant began dismantling press number 111 on Monday to begin moving it to Ohio. She said that the efforts from Casey’s office have been incredible and she hopes that the owners of the plant go to jail. The plant is scheduled for closure in the beginning of 2025.
November 1, 2024 4:54 am
PHOENIX (AP) — Kamala Harris says Donald Trump’s comment that he would protect women whether they “like it or not” shows that the Republican presidential nominee does not understand women’s rights to make decisions about their own lives. Harris spoke Thursday in Wisconsin before spending the day campaigning in the Western battleground states of Arizona and Nevada. The remarks by Trump come as he has struggled to connect with women voters and as Harris courts women in both parties with a message centered on freedom. She’s making the pitch that women should be free to make decisions about their bodies and that if Trump is elected, more restrictions will follow.
November 1, 2024 4:56 am
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has launched another attack on former Rep. Liz Cheney, calling the Republican former Wyoming congresswoman a “war hawk” and suggesting she might not be as willing to send troops to fight if she had guns pointed at her. Cheney has vocally opposed Trump since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and has endorsed his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. During an event Thursday in Glendale, Arizona, the Republican presidential candidate called Cheney “deranged,” “very dumb” and “a radical war hawk.” He then added: “Let’s put her with the rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. OK, let’s see how she feels about it.”
November 1, 2024 5:00 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House press officials altered the official transcript of a call in which President Joe Biden appeared to take a swipe at supporters of Donald Trump, drawing objections from the federal workers tasked with recording the president’s remarks for posterity. That’s according to two U.S. government officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity and an internal email obtained by The Associated Press. The White House found itself scrambling to respond to a wave of queries from reporters after Biden appeared to refer to Trump supporters as “garbage” during a call with Latino activists. In that moment, there also was a difference of opinion between the press office and the official stenographers on just what Biden said.
November 1, 2024 4:58 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s deep partisan divisions extend to trust in the vote tallies for this year’s election. A new poll finds that Republicans are much more skeptical than Democrats that ballots will be counted accurately. The AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey found that voters generally show more distrust toward nationwide voting results compared to the tallies done by their own local election offices. The survey also found older voters have more faith in the vote count at all levels than younger voters. This year’s election marks the first presidential race since former President Donald Trump began a campaign of lies about a stolen 2020 election. Election experts warn that Trump may be laying the groundwork to once again challenge the election if he loses.
