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The Pa. primary election set voter turnout records. Here’s what else the data show

PHILADELPHIA — The 2022 Pennsylvania primary election — finally filed away in the history books after a recount — wasn’t just a wild political saga. It also set voter turnout records.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Turn your lights out to help save the lightning bugs

If you are a lightning bug fan who didn’t get tickets to this year’s Pennsylvania Firefly Festival in the Pennsylvania Wilds, you’re in good company.

Tribune News Service

Bills limiting classroom discussion on gender, sexual orientation pass Pa. Senate Education Committee

PITTSBURGH — The state Senate Education Committee on Tuesday passed two bills intended to address discussions of gender identity and sexual orientation in Pennsylvania schools.

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Trump lawyers contacted a top Pa. Republican every day during 2020 pressure campaign, Jan. 6 committee says

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania House Speaker Bryan Cutler received daily phone calls from former President Donald Trump’s lawyers and saw protests outside his house amid a pressure campaign to overturn the results of the state’s 2020 presidential election, he told the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attacks.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Fox host fact-checks Dr. Oz poll claim

“I think I should be favored. I think I probably am," Oz insisted

Salon

Army: Disinterred remains do not match Native American boy

The military says that remains exhumed from a U.S. Army base in Pennsylvania do not belong to the Native American teenager recorded to have been buried there more than a century ago

The Independent UK

Will the Democrats’ working-class strategy pay off? - Roll Call

Democrats have long known they have trouble attracting working-class voters. Will recent candidates and outreach pay off in 2022?

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Pa. abortion providers are bracing for a surge in patients if Roe v. Wade is overturned

PHILADELPHIA — Thousands of people from neighboring states may come to Pennsylvania to terminate their pregnancies if a forthcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision ends a national right to an abortion.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Epoxy.ai, a Philadelphia tech start-up, aims to sync TV watching with sports betting

Chris Reynolds and Jason Angelides developed the gizmo on the TV remote that brought deep-dive sports stats — tracking game momentum and player statistics — to millions of Xfinity subscribers.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Pennsylvania attorney general –and nominee for governor– raises $20.5 million this election cycle

According to the most recent campaign finance reports filed with the Pennsylvania Department of State, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has raised $20.5 million and spent $7.7 million between Jan. 1, 2021, and May 6, 2022. Shapiro, who is the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania governor, has received the most donations…

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Planned Parenthood: The organisation leading the fight for abortion access as Roe v Wade is overturned

From the founder’s role in introducing birth control to the US and her murky connections to the KKK and eugenics, to the organisation taking on the Pennsylvania governor in the Supreme Court, Planned Parenthood has long been at the forefront of the fight for reproductive rights, writes Rachel Sharp

The Independent UK

Three-month-old boy died after being left in car 'for several hours' in 33C heat

Kayden Nguyen died when he was left in his father's Toyota Sienna minivan in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in searing hot temperatures with experts claiming it could have felt as hot as 56C after 60 minutes

Daily Mirror

As midterm elections loom, chances of victory hinge on health of economy

PITTSBURGH — With inflation the highest it's been since the early 1980s and Americans feeling the pain of a downtrodden economy, Democrats in Pennsylvania — a state with two of the most high-profile races in the country — are hoping to convince voters that they should be an exception to…

Tribune News Service

Unlikely duo: Pennsylvania Democrats aim for united front

The fate of the Democratic Party is intertwined in a pair of Pennsylvania elections that’ll be closely watched this year

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Appeals Court Judge Overturns Pennsylvania's Controversial Vape Recall: Cannabis Companies Cheer, Health Dept. Appeals

A Commonwealth Court judge ruled to allow Pennsylvania medical marijuana companies to resume selling vapes, taken off the market upon request of the Department Of Health last February.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Pennsylvania’s controversial marijuana vape recall is overturned by appeals court judge

PHILADELPHIA — A Commonwealth Court judge on Wednesday allowed Pennsylvania medical marijuana companies to resume selling vapes that were taken off the shelves in February in a controversial recall.

Benzinga

EXCLUSIVE: Curaleaf Celebrates Opening Of New Dispensary In Lancaster, PA, Marking 134 Nationwide

Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (CSE: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF) announced it is opening a new dispensary in Pennsylvania at 1440 Manheim Pike, Lancaster, PA 17601.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Fights over Pa. election rules that seemed settled after 2020 have now come roaring back

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania’s primary election and Senate race recount are over. But as the state heads into yet another high-profile and contentious November, elections officials and lawyers are warily acknowledging something:

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Editorial: Congress: Pass the bipartisan gun control bill

The compromise gun control bill crafted by 10 Republicans and several Democratic colleagues is “more likely than not” to pass the Senate, Pennsylvania’s Republican senator said Tuesday. One of the authors of the proposal, Sen. Pat Toomey, says that it will “protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans while…

The Independent UK

Election 'deniers' quiet on fraud claims after primary wins

Dozens of Republican candidates who sought Donald Trump’s endorsement have spent months parroting the former president's baseless claims of 2020 election fraud

Chicago Sun-Times

Dems make risky bets on Trump Republicans

Will it get their guys elected? Or will Democrats have personally helped send some of the most extreme, anti-Democratic and dangerous candidates into elected office?

The Conversation

Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how emancipated people were kept unfree needs to be remembered, too

The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first heard the word that freedom for the enslaved had come. There were speeches, sermons and shared meals, mostly held at Black churches, the safest places to have such celebrations.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

After 91 years, the murder conviction of a Pa. teen has been overturned

PHILADELPHIA — In 1931, an all-white jury took just four hours to convict Alexander McClay Williams, a Black teenager, in the stabbing death of a matron at the Glen Mills School for Boys in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

Benzinga

Pennsylvania Options For Wellness Launches Rick Simpson Oil In Its Pennsylvania-Based Dispensary Locations

Pennsylvania Options for Wellness, Inc. launched Rick Simpson Oil under its "Vytal Options" brand of products in its Pennsylvania-based dispensary locations. The development of this product was announced after PA Options for Wellness/"Vytal Options" saw an increase in demand for a competitively priced RSO product. directions.

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Stephen A. Smith Says He Was Approached About Running for Senate

The ESPN personality was told about 10 years ago by a former Pennsylvania governor that he should consider going into politics.

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