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Editorial: The perverse logic of capital punishment

Singapore’s execution last Wednesday of a mentally disabled Malaysian man for drug smuggling sparked international protests and outrage. Executing a man who no longer threatens his government or community — especially one with a child’s mental capacity — isn’t justice. It’s murder, even if sanctioned and disguised by an irrational…

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Will Bunch: Malcolm Kenyatta is the Democrats’ future, so why can’t he be their present?

In the backroom of a popular Mexican restaurant in Chester County’s mushroom capital of Kennett Square, standing in front of florid Mexican folk paintings, a faux red-tile roof, and a half-finished Corona, state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta held court for 20 minutes to explain why Pennsylvania Democrats should pick him, a…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Pennsylvania lawmaker announces legislation aiming to notify parents of sexually explicit school curriculum

Pennsylvania state Senator Ryan Aument (R) on March 31, 2022, announced his intent to file legislation aiming to require schools to identify sexually explicit content in student curriculum and notify parents when such content is featured in classroom instruction.

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Trump's bid to shape GOP faces test with voters in May races

Voters across a dozen states are set to decide primary elections this month that will determine the people and priorities leading the GOP into the fall midterms and beyond

The Independent UK

She wanted to vaccinate their kids against COVID. He didn't. A judge had to decide

A divorced Pennsylvania couple could not agree on whether to vaccinate their children — and ended up in court. Since the vaccine was approved for kids, cases like these have skyrocketed in the state.

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Mehmet Oz is a top Senate candidate in Pennsylvania. What are his ties to the state?

PHILADELPHIA — Mehmet Oz lived in North Jersey for more than three decades. The celebrity known as “Dr. Oz” has invited magazines and TV cameras to his home overlooking the Hudson River and Manhattan skyline to showcase his lifestyle and advice.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Doug Mastriano is leading the Pa. primary for governor and Republican insiders are trying to stop him

PHILADELPHIA — The ominous mailer has an image of Doug Mastriano on one side. The other has a clipping from a news article reporting that the state senator wanted the federal government to suspend privacy laws so local health departments could "release names and locations" of COVID-19 patients.

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Former state AG back in jail for alleged probation violation

A former Pennsylvania attorney general who served jail time for leaking grand jury material and lying about it has been taken into custody on an alleged probation violation

The Independent UK

Cruz ups efforts to defeat Trump's picks

Cruz is heading to Ohio and Pennsylvania to campaign against Republicans endorsed by Trump

Salon

An algorithm that screens for child neglect raises concerns

Child welfare officials in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, the cradle of Mister Rogers’ TV neighborhood and the icon’s child-centric innovations, are using an algorithm to support agency workers as they make decisions meant to protect children from neglect

The Independent UK

An algorithm that screens for child neglect raises concerns

The Independent UK

David McCormick and Mehmet Oz made their pitch to Northeast Pennsylvania — at an ice fishing party

Pete Helms holds his annual ice fishing party at a hunting club that’s so deep in Pike County, its address doesn’t even register on Google Maps. To get there, you just have to know it’s a half-mile down a wooded, windy road from the Hammered Steel Tavern.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Former Attorney General Kathleen Kane faces probation-violation hearing over DUI arrest

PHILADELPHIA — Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane will face a court hearing for violating her probation on a 2016 perjury conviction with her March arrest on DUI charges.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

A Toll Bros. founder sees new business opportunities amid global troubles

Bruce E. Toll, co-founder in 1967 of Fortune 500 homebuilder Toll Bros., has long since diversified his fortune from the Fort Washington-based firm. His firm BET Investments Inc. has bet on health care, medical, information technology and telecom companies. And in Pennsylvania he owns coal fields and auto dealers and…

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Reason

How Worrying Are Pro-Trump Gubernatorial Candidates Running on Rigged Election Claims?

It may not be a successful strategy in general elections, but it's still deeply unnerving.

The Independent UK

Candidate in Pennsylvania primary hit with protective order

A candidate in next month’s Republican primary for Pennsylvania lieutenant governor has been ordered to stay away from his home after his wife made claims of physical and mental abuse

Ballotpedia

The top 10 Pennsylvania candidates raised 10% of all donations

In Pennsylvania politics, state-level candidates and PACs raised $343.8 million between Jan. 1, 2021, and Mar. 9, 2022. More than $34.5 million or 10.0 percent of all donations was raised by the 10 individuals at the top of the list.

The Independent UK

Millionaire candidates pour cash into Ohio, Pa. Senate races

Millionaire candidates and billionaire investors are harnessing their considerable personal wealth to try to win competitive Republican primaries for open U.S. Senate seats in Pennsylvania and Ohio

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Pa.'s Republican front-runners for governor square off in debate

For the first time in their primary race for Pennsylvania governor, the four Republican front-runners — at least according to recent polling — went toe-to-toe on a debate stage.

The Independent UK

Volunteer student genealogist helps solve cold case murder of nine-year-old girl nearly 60 years after killing

Nine-year-old Marise Ann Chiverella was found in a garbage dump on 18 March 1964, her murderer not identified for nearly 60 years

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Trump’s ex-COVID-19 adviser, Pa. native Deborah Birx, says disinfectant episode was ‘a tragedy on many levels’

PHILADELPHIA — Deborah Birx — the Pennsylvania-born government doctor who rose to international prominence during the pandemic — is back in the news, this time promoting her account of her controversial stint as the first coronavirus response coordinator under former President Donald Trump.

Tribune News Service

As turkey season approaches, wild birds are free of avian flu

Despite the arrival of avian influenza in Pennsylvania, there is no evidence the state's wild turkeys are infected a week before the one-day junior and mentored youth gobbler hunt April 23, and two weeks prior to the monthlong season that begins April 30.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Pennsylvania nursing home buyers would face more scrutiny under state health proposal

In the most complete revision of its nursing home rules in at least 25 years, the Pennsylvania Department of Health last month proposed new regulations that would require more scrutiny of homes’ prospective owners.

Tribune News Service

Oz flaunts Trump endorsement as US Senate candidates try to prove their Pennsylvanian roots

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mehmet Oz debuted a new Trumpian confidence inspired by the former president’s endorsement, as the five candidates tried to set themselves apart as the “most Pennsylvanian” candidate in Monday’s debate for the GOP nomination.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

4 takeaways from Monday night’s Pennsylvania Democratic Senate debate

PHILADELPHIA — They don’t want to “defund the police,” but they do want to end the Senate filibuster.

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