Inflation has come down considerably from its post-pandemic peak of 9% in 2022, and just went negative on a monthly basis for the first time since May 2020, but prices are still higher than Federal Reserve policymakers say is appropriate for a stable economy. Further hurting the ability to make ends meet: a growing insurance … Read more
WASHINGTON, D.C. (NewsNation) — Pennsylvania is a critical state that will determine the outcome of the 2024 general election, becoming a focus for both President Joe Biden’s and former President Donald Trump’s campaigns. In 2020, President Biden won the state by just over 80,000 votes (1.17%). It’s considered a must-win state for Biden again in … Read more
Pennsylvania Rep. Summer Lee, a member of the progressive Squad, easily dispatched her Democratic challenger in Tuesday’s primary, after a much-hyped battle over Lee’s early support for a ceasefire in Gaza never fully materialized. The AP called the race in favor of Lee, who is in her first term in Congress, shortly after the polls … Read more
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — President Joe Biden made a nostalgic return to the house where he grew up in working-class Scranton on Tuesday, kicking off three days of campaigning across Pennsylvania by calling for higher taxes on the rich and casting Donald Trump as an out-of-touch elitist. When the Democratic president wasn’t trying to blunt … Read more
Pennsylvania’s highest court ruled Wednesday that Republican state lawmakers can no longer try to enforce a subpoena for election records they issued in 2021 in a quest inspired by Trump’s baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election. HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest court ruled Wednesday that Republican state lawmakers can no longer … Read more
Dave McCormick, a wealthy former hedge fund manager and leading Republican candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, would vote to repeal President Joe Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure bill, he said on a pro-Trump radio show in mid-November. During McCormick’s appearance on “The John Fredericks Show,” Fredericks asked McCormick how he would “stand firm to cut spending” once … Read more
Dave McCormick, an extremely wealthy hedge fund manager running as a Republican for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, has built much of his political persona around his record of creating jobs. During his run for Senate last cycle, McCormick cited both his tenure as CEO of online auction startup FreeMarkets in the early 2000s and leading … Read more
Screenshot: SidetrackAdventure/YouTube This bit of highway was built in 1919, only to be abandoned in 1952 with the opening of a safer, modern tunnel straight through the the craggy Arizona mountain. It runs 21 miles from Superior, Arizona to Miami (Arizona, not Florida). This road must have been fairly dangerous back in the day due … Read more
Photo: Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik 7-Eleven is the best convenience store there is. There’s something deeply comforting about walking into that fluorescent-lit, orange, green and red box and picking out some sort of soft drink with your buddies. It’s a very liminal space in a lot of ways. At night, it feels like another world … Read more
