October 29, 2024 4:50 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are asking the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency order in Pennsylvania that could result in thousands of votes not being counted in this year’s election in the battleground state. Just over a week before the election, the court was asked Monday to step into a dispute over provisional ballots cast by Pennsylvania voters whose mail ballots are rejected for not following technical procedures in state law. The state’s high court ruled 4-3 last week that elections officials must count provisional ballots cast by voters whose mail-in ballots were voided because they arrived without mandatory secrecy envelopes. The election fight arrived at the Supreme Court the same day Virginia sought the justices’ intervention in a dispute over purging voter registrations.
October 29, 2024 2:41 am
(AP) – Philadelphia’s district attorney says he has filed a lawsuit to halt Elon Musk’s $1 million giveaway as part of his political organization’s effort boosting Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. The lawsuit announced by Democratic District Attorney Larry Krasner on Monday is the first legal action to be brought over the America PAC’s sweepstakes offering $1 million every day to a person in a battleground state who has signed a petition supporting the Constitution. A spokesperson for the super PAC who was asked if the cash awards would continue – responded with a link to an X post, which showed the latest $1 million winner holding an over-sized check. (Photo: AP)
October 28, 2024 5:02 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are stepping up their attacks on Donald Trump a day after a comedian opening a Trump rally called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.” The comment at Madison Square Garden drew wide condemnation and highlighted the rising power of a key Latino group in the swing state of Pennsylvania. The Trump campaign distanced itself from the remarks on Puerto Rico made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe (pictured). The political fallout underscores the importance of Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes and the last-minute efforts to court growing numbers of Hispanic voters there. Trump did not directly mention the controversy during his appearances in Georgia. At a rally in Atlanta, Trump criticized Harris for calling him a fascist, declaring: “I’m not a Nazi.”
October 29, 2024 5:06 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Kamala Harris is giving an election speech Tuesday from the same location where Republican Donald Trump helped incite a mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Harris chose the spot to draw a contrast between her vision for the country and Trump’s continued lies about the 2020 election and the risks she says his return to the White House would pose for the nation. In 2021, Trump told supporters who gathered at the grassy Ellipse to go to the Capitol, where the presidential election votes were being certified. Rioters there stormed the Senate chamber and ransacked Capitol offices.
October 29, 2024 5:03 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly four years after a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, political violence remains a persistent threat heading into another presidential election. But the nature of the danger has changed since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. Many far-right groups and movements involved in the riot have dissolved, splintered or receded from public forums. Yet the specter of election-related violence hasn’t vanished with them. Experts in political extremism see plenty of reasons for concern. American University professor Kurt Braddock says many of Donald Trump’s supporters have doubled down on electoral conspiracy theories since the Jan. 6 siege.
October 29, 2024 4:59 am
ATLANTA (AP) — The suspected arson fires of ballot drop boxes in Oregon and Washington this week is a reminder of how the popular collection devices have been the subject of false conspiracy theories since the 2020 election. That has prompted distrust among certain groups of voters and efforts to halt or restrict their use by Republican state lawmakers. They are popular in states that mail ballots to all voters. In all, 27 states and the District of Columbia allow ballot drop boxes, while six others don’t have a specific law but allow local communities to use them. Six states have banned them entirely since 2020.
October 29, 2024 4:55 pm
(AP) – Longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon has been released from prison after serving a four-month sentence for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021. Bannon left the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, on Tuesday morning. He later resumed his podcast, saying he was focused on helping Trump win back the presidency. A jury convicted Bannon in 2022 of refusing to sit for a deposition with the Jan. 6 House Committee and refusing to provide documents related to his involvement in Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 loss to President Joe Biden. (Photo: AP)
October 29, 2024 1:47 pm
(AP) – Teri Garr, the quirky comedy actor who rose from background dancer in Elvis Presley movies to co-star of such favorites as “Young Frankenstein” and “Tootsie,” has died. She was 79. Garr died Tuesday of multiple sclerosis “surrounded by family and friends,” said publicist Heidi Schaeffer. Garr battled other health problems in recent years, underwent an operation in January 2007 to repair an aneurysm. The actor, who was sometimes credited as Terri, Terry or Terry Ann during her long career, seemed destined for show business from her childhood. Her father was Eddie Garr, a well-known vaudeville comedian; her mother was Phyllis Lind, one of the original high-kicking Rockettes at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. Their daughter began dance lessons at 6 and by 14 was dancing with the San Francisco and Los Angeles ballet companies. She was 16 when she joined the road company of “West Side Story” in Los Angeles, and as early as 1963 she began appearing in bit parts in films. She recalled in a 1988 interview how she won the “West Side Story” role. After being dropped from her first audition, she returned a day later in different clothes and was accepted. (Photo: AP)
October 28, 2024 4:54 am
BUFFALO TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Westbound I-70 in Buffalo Township is open again after a tractor-trailer rollover. PennDOT says it reopened just before noon Sunday. The westbound lanes were closed between Exit 11 to PA 221 Taylorstown and Exit 6 to PA 231 Claysville early Sunday morning. A PennDOT official said that a tractor-trailer rolled over by mile marker 8.5 in Buffalo Township. In a post on Facebook, the Claysville Volunteer Fire Department states a semi rolled over around 5:45 a.m. The PennDOT official tells Channel 11 that Hazmat responded to the scene. (Photo: Claysville Volunteer Fire Department)
October 28, 2024 5:12 am
PITTSBURGH — Sunday marked six years since the deadliest antisemitic attack on American soil. On Oct. 27, 2018, a gunman opened fire at a Pittsburgh synagogue killing 11 Jewish worshipers in the hate-fueled attack. A commemoration was held at the Jewish Community Center to honor the innocent lives taken on that day and stand united against hate. The remembrance ceremony was filled with songs, prayers and stories of the victims. Dried-out bouquets were on display for people to see for the first time. The flowers were part of a memorial that was left outside the Tree of Life synagogue in the hours following the mass shooting. The mass shooting was one of the darkest days for the Jewish community. During the somber ceremony, victims’ families, survivors, Jewish community leaders and first responders hugged and shared tears as they read the 11 names aloud and lit a candle in their memory.
