Former President Donald Trump on Friday announced the guest list for his Saturday rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he was shot in the ear by a would-be assassin on July 13.
The Trump campaign announced the former president “will return to Butler, Pennsylvania to hold a rally on the very same ground where he took a bullet for democracy less than three months ago.” It included a list of more than 50 “special guests” who will be in attendance.
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Republican U.S. Senate nominee Dave McCormick on Wednesday expanded on his previous position that the United States should use its military to strike cartel installations in Mexico behind the illegal exporting of fentanyl over the southern border.
McCormick told The Associated Press he envisions the precision use of military resources to destroy facilities behind fentanyl production or transportation, which he said the country’s leaders should consider terrorism.
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The Pennsylvania Department of State on Tuesday warned voters the supplied envelope to return their mail-in ballots may arrive sealed from the humidity affecting much of the commonwealth.
In a statement posted to social media, the department confirmed reports that citizens have received mail-in ballots with sealed return envelopes.
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Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) on Monday declared his opposition to the proposal by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to block $20 billion in aid to Israel, reportedly calling it “reckless and irresponsible” in a statement.
The senator’s statement came after Sanders introduced legislation that would block a $20 billion arms deal with Israel, which Sanders called “immoral” and “illegal” under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Arms Export Control Act.
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The president of the controversial Anti-Defamation League (ADL) condemned Vice President Kamala Harris, her presidential campaign, and the White House for failing to address antisemitism allegedly hurled toward Governor Josh Shapiro, who was on the short-list to be her vice presidential running mate, but was eventually passed over in favor of Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz.
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt told the New York Post on Saturday it was “shameful” for President Joe Biden, Harris nor her campaign to fail to address the “antisemitic slander campaign against Governor Shapiro.”
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Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA-16) on Thursday said the U.S. Secret Service was responsible for “multiple security failures” that preceded the July 13 attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump in the first hearing of the House task force investigating both assassination attempts against the former president.
Members of the task force investigating the assassination attempts against Trump during their inaugural hearing, led by Kelly, lauded the performance of local law enforcement while warning that Secret Service failed to adequately protect Trump and attendees of his rally in Butler on July 13, when Thomas Crooks killed Corey Comperatore, shot the former president in the ear, and injured other Trump supporters in attendance.
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The Pennsylvania Democratic Senate Campaign Committee (PA DSCC) on Wednesday defended Senator Jimmy Dillon after Republicans accused him of authoring racist and homophobic posts to the social media platform now known as X, but then known as Twitter, between 2011 and 2015.
Dillon is accused by the Pennsylvania Republican Senate Campaign Committtee (PA RSCC) of authoring posts published by a now-deleted account associated with the Hoops 24-7 Basketball Academy the senator continues to direct, including posts that used slurs targeting black people and made derisive comments about gay and Asian people.
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A nonpartisan nonprofit is releasing a documentary about the influx of Haitian migrants to Charleroi, the rural Pennsylvania community referenced by both former President Donald Trump and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick after it was subjected to a 2,000 percent increase to its number of migrants.
The America 2100 nonprofit posted what senior advisor Nate Hochman said is a trailer for the upcoming release of a documentary about the small town “that’s been flooded with thousands of Haitian immigrants over the past two years.”
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A Democratic state senator in Pennsylvania has denied making social media posts, which contained slurs targeting black, Asian, and gay people, after they were unearthed by the Pennsylvania Senate Republican Campaign Committee (PA SRCC) on Tuesday.
State Senator Jimmy Dillon (D-Philadelphia) has denied authoring posts published to the @Hoops24_7 account on X, between 2011 and 2015, when the platform was called Twitter.
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U.S. Senator John Fetterman on Sunday repeatedly dodged questions about the past opposition to fracking expressed by he and Vice President Kamala Harris, who campaigned on banning the practice in 2020 but now claims to support it.
Fetterman similarly pushed to ban fracking from 2016 until 2022, when began supporting fracking, and told NBC News host Kristen Welker questions about the flip-flop are “strange.” He deflected by referencing President Donald Trump’s remarks about dogs and cats reportedly being eaten by Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio.
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Republican U.S. Senate nominee Dave McCormick on Friday visited Charleroi, Pennsylvania, which has seen a 2,000 percent increase in the arrivals of migrants to the community, to attend an event with residents affected by the closure of a glass plant.
“I’m here today to stand in solidarity with these workers in the fight to keep these jobs here, to build a vibrant economy for our Commonwealth, and to ensure that these Pennsylvania communities are not left behind,” said McCormick during a Charleroi stop on his Poor Leadership Tour that included a joint appearance with workers affected by the closure of a Corelle glass plant owned by Anchor Hocking.
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Former President Donald Trump maintains a unique “hold” on the voters of Pennsylvania, where Democrats should expect a “strong” performance from the Republican, according to U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA), who made the remarks at The Atlantic Festival on Thursday.
The senator explained that Trump enjoys a certain “energy” among Pennsylvanians that is difficult to measure, and suggested Democrats should prepare for the presidential election to be closer than party stalwarts expect.
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Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are statistically tied in Pennsylvania, according to a poll released on Thursday that also shows Republican U.S. Senate candidate tied with Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), the three-term Democrat he hopes to unseat in November.
Commissioned and conducted by The Washington Post, the pollsters found Harris was supported by 48 percent of respondents, including both likely voters and registered voters. Trump had the support of 47 percent of respondents.
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Republican U.S. Senate nominee Dave McCormick on Wednesday argued Pennsylvania voters are willing to support an “underdog” candidate like him against his three-term incumbent, Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), but ultimately attributed the recent tightening in polling data to the Democrat being “out of step” with his constituents.
McCormick on Wednesday appeared on “Fox & Friends,” where said his race to unseat Casey is gaining momentum, driven by both his status as a “challenger” and “an underdog,” but also by Casey’s alleged distance from his constituents.
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Former President Donald Trump will reportedly be joined for a Pennsylvania event by Polish President Andrzej Duda, who has served as the country’s president since 2015.
The Pennsylvania Daily Star confirmed on Wednesday Trump and Duda will both attend an event at The National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Bucks County, Pennsylvania on Sunday, but did has not determined whether the former president will meet with the Polish leader.
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Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Monday released a whistleblower report containing new allegations involving negligence and incompetence on behalf of the U.S. Secret Service during the July 13 attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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Republican U.S. Senate nominee Dave McCormick on Friday blamed Democratic leaders, including the Biden-Harris administration and his political opponent, Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), after one Pennsylvania town saw a 2,000 percent increase in migrants under the current administration.
The Republican’s campaign said McCormick released the statement as “reports reveal the small Pennsylvania town of Charleroi is suffering from a [2,000 percent] increase in migrants.”
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Greater numbers of Jewish voters living in Pennsylvania are reportedly planning to vote Republican in November, with former President Donald Trump seeing a double-digit increase in his support since 2020, according to a poll conducted by the Teach Coalition and Honan Strategy group and released by the New York Post on Wednesday.
Pollsters reported that Vice President Kamala Harris ahead with Jewish voters in Pennsylvania, with 49 percent of their vote. However, they found the former president was within single digits of the Democratic nominee, with Trump receiving the support of 42 percent of Pennsylvania’s Jewish voters.
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Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) and Republican U.S. Senate nominee Dave McCormick were both interviewed on Sunday by CNN host Manu Raju. In his remarks to the network, Casey declined to name a single area of disagreement with the Biden-Harris administration.
Asked why he continues to align himself with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris despite efforts by the McCormick campaign to remind voters of their alignment, Casey claimed Harris’ presidential campaign “brought a real lift to the turnout dynamics” in Pennsylvania.
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Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) on Tuesday reportedly repeated his dubious “greedflation” claim at an event in Lawrence County despite being contradicted in multiple fact checks, and after his Republican opponent, Dave McCormick, released his campaign’s “Casey Inflation Calculator” charting price hikes during his time in office.
Casey told attendees of a lunch held by the Lawrence County Democrats on Tuesday that companies “jack up prices and we’re supposed to just shut up about it,” according to New Castle News.
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CBS News Design features allegedly make Snapchat a favored platform of sexual criminals targeting kids, according to a lawsuit filed by New Mexico Thursday against Snap, the company that operates the popular social media app. An undercover investigation by the state found Snapchat has crafted “an environment where predators can easily target…
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For the second time in one day, Hunter Biden changed his plea in the federal case centered on nine tax charges ahead of the jury selection that was set to begin Thursday.
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A poll released Wednesday found Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) tied with his Republican opponent, Dave McCormick, as a plurality of Pennsylvania voters said the state of the economy was their most important issue.
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The Dave McCormick campaign for U.S. Senate released a video on Monday featuring the endorsement of Blair County Sheriff Jim Ott, who revealed his son died following a fentanyl overdose and condemned Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) and other Democrats for their inaction at the southern border.
In the video, Ott gave details about the loss of his son, Josh, who he said died following a battle with addiction that culminated in a fatal fentanyl overdose.
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President Joe Biden on Monday said Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not doing enough to secure the release of hostages in brief remarks made after the recovery of the bodies of six who were captured by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, including U.S. citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
Biden made the remarks ahead of his Monday rally in Pennsylvania with Vice President Kamala Harris, who Republicans have suggested was influenced by concerns of antisemitism within the Democratic Party when she passed over Governor Josh Shapiro and instead picked Governor Tim Walz to complete her presidential ticket.
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A Monday poll of Pennsylvania voters found former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris tied in a head-to-head race, but the former president with a narrow lead when voters were given the options of Green Party and Libertarian Party presidential candidates.
In a head-to-head contest, pollsters at Wick Insights reportedly found Harris and Trump tied, each with 49 percent of the vote.
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President Joe Biden on Monday said Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not doing enough to secure the release of hostages in brief remarks made after the recovery of the bodies of six who were captured by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, including U.S. citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
Biden made the remarks ahead of his Monday rally in Pennsylvania with Vice President Kamala Harris, who Republicans have suggested was influenced by concerns of antisemitism within the Democratic Party when she passed over Governor Josh Shapiro and instead picked Governor Tim Walz to complete her presidential ticket.
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Fact checking website PolitiFact on Wednesday issued a “Mostly False” rating for the claim by Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) that higher prices paid by Pennsylvanians are caused by “greedflation,” or corporate greed.
The fact checker reported that while prices have sometimes increased higher than inflation since 2019, “most economists” told it “rising costs for goods and labor have been inflation’s primary drivers” of higher costs, while Federal Reserve regional banks have published studies which “cast doubt on the role of corporate greed in driving inflation.”
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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick on Wednesday released its Casey Inflation Calculator, a website known as Bobflation.com that charts price increases for popular Pennsylvania purchases and everyday necessities.
“Pennsylvania’s iconic food and experiences are becoming increasingly unaffordable because of Kamala Harris and Bob Casey’s reckless spending,” said McCormick in a statement. “See for yourself just how much prices have increased with our Casey Cost Calculator.”
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During a Monday campaign event, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said the fate of the control of the U.S. Congress will fall to Bucks County, where Republicans have gained a lead among registered voters for the first time in over a decade.
Shapiro delivered the remarks at a Bucks County campaign event in support of Senator Bob Casey, who will face former Trump administration official Dave McCormick in November, according to by The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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A counter sniper with Pennsylvania law enforcement told members of the U.S. House on Monday that the U.S. Secret Service declined the encrypted radios offered by local law enforcement ahead of the July 13 rally where former President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt.
The claim was made during a J13 Forum attended by U.S. Representatives Andy Biggs (R-AZ-05), Eli Crane (R-AZ-02), Cory Mills (R-FL-07), Chip Roy (R-TX-21) and streamed to social media by Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL-01).
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The conservative nonprofit Americans for Prosperity (AFP) Action will spend $3.5 million to boost Republicans challenging vulnerable Democrats in the U.S. Senate, with Dave McCormick to benefit from the group’s spending in Pennsylvania.
According to The Daily Wire, who broke the news of the AFP Action advertising spend on Monday, the group will spend $3.5 million to target Senators Bob Casey (D-PA), Jon Tester (D-MT), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH).
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Republican U.S. Senate nominee Dave McCormick issued a statement on Thursday, “slamming” Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) for his Democratic National Convention (DNC) speech that pinned the blame for higher prices on “greedflation,” with McCormick accusing the Democrat of voting for policies that were actually behind price hikes.
“Weak career politician Bob Casey voted for every bill that is driving higher prices, enabling open borders and the flood of fentanyl, crushing Pennsylvania’s energy sector, and encouraging violent crime,” said McCormick in a statement posted to the social media platform X.
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Republican U.S. House candidate James Hayes told Outside the Beltway host John Fredericks on Thursday that Representative Summer Lee (D-PA-12) is “alienating whole communities” with her positions on Israel and “anti-police agenda” that leaves communities less safe.
Hayes told Fredericks, who is publisher of The Pennsylvania Daily Star, that Lee’s public remarks caused new excitement and enthusiasm for his Republican candidacy in the district that President Joe Biden carried with a 20-point margin.
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Governor Josh Shapiro on Thursday denied that antisemitism played a role in the decision by Vice President Kamala Harris to skip over him in favor of Governor Tim Walz in her bid to find a running mate for the 2024 presidential election.
Shapiro made the remarks to German-owned Politico from the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, Illinois, where he delivered a speech on Wednesday.
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The Montgomery County Republican Committee (MCRC) in Pennsylvania removed a committeeman on Monday after he endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris and appeared on CNN to confirm his interest in Republican activism was inspired by his opposition former President Donald Trump.
After initially endorsing “the Democrat” against Trump in July 3 opinion column written for The Philadelphia Inquirer during the period when Democrats were urging President Joe Biden to step down in favor of another candidate, MCRC committeeman McCaffery confirmed his endorsement of the Harris-Walz ticket during a Friday appearance on CNN.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday blamed Democrats for the ballot access lawsuits by his independent presidential campaign faces from outside a courthouse in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he claimed a judge refused to allow him or a campaign official to testify because they were late to the courtroom.
Kennedy attributed blame for the legal challenges to his candidacy solely to Democrats, specifying Republicans have not engaged in such tactics, on the same day his vice presidential running mate suggested Kennedy could soon end the campaign and endorse former President Donald Trump.
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Both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have now visited Sheetz convenience stores in Pennsylvania during their respective 2024 presidential campaigns, with the vice president stopping at one Pittsburgh location on Sunday.
Not mentioned in either campaign appearance was the lawsuit brought by the Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) against Sheetz Inc., which claims the company discriminated against minority groups in its hiring process, which excludes convicted criminals when selecting candidates.
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Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) received $5,000 from a political action committee which supports the controversial EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program that grants permanent residence visas to wealthy foreign nationals who make significant investments in the United States.
Documents submitted by the Immigrant Investors Association/Invest in the USA (IIUSA) PAC to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) confirm the organization gave Casey $5,000 on June 13, and records additionally reveal Casey is the only U.S. Senate candidate who received such a contribution.
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A judge on Friday tossed the lawsuit filed by two Pennsylvania voters against the Butler County Board of Elections, granting a victory to Republicans who intervened in the case to argue allowing the request would block “a crucial function in protecting election integrity” this November.
Petitioners requested mail-in voters be allowed to “cure” ballots that were submitted without a security envelope after their ballots were tossed during the 2024 primary elections.
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Teresa Sheehan was shot by two officers at a group home during a mental health crisis with the San Francisco Police Department in 2008, when Vice President Kamala Harris was serving as the District Attorney of San Francisco.
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Republican U.S. Senate nominee Dave McCormick spoke at the Saturday rally held in Wilkes-Barre by former President Donald Trump. McCormick relayed his experiences being raised in Pennsylvania and achieving successes within the commonwealth, before warning voters the “American Dream is slipping away unless we turn this country around.”
Revealing his Pennsylvania roots, McCormick briefly mentioned his childhood in Bloomsburg before parlaying his mother’s birthplace in Punxsutawney into a quip about the incumbent, Senator Bob Casey (D-PA).
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The FBI confirmed in a statement to The Pennsylvania Daily Star it released the body of Thomas Crooks, the 22-year-old who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump on July 13, which it stated is “keeping with normal procedures.”
A spokesman for the agency often accused of being politicized by the Biden-Harris administration told The Star, “Any suggestion the FBI is interfering with congressional efforts to look into the attempted assassination which took place in Butler, Pennsylvania, is inaccurate and unfounded.”
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Pennsylvania holds about 320,000 fewer registered Democrats than it did on Election Day in 2020, according to data reported on Tuesday, which shows recent boosts for Republicans have resulted in a party with about the same number of registered voters it had four years ago.
The Pennsylvania Democratic Party lost about 320,000 registered voters over the last few years, Newsweek confirmed on Tuesday. Democratic registration reportedly saw an increase after Vice President Kamala Harris was selected to lead the party, but the outlet reported 21,000 voters registered Republican in July compared to just 5,000 who registered Democrat.
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The Pennsylvania Democratic Party on Tuesday issued a press release containing remarks by elected officials about the investment by Republican U.S. Senate nominee Dave McCormick in fund that owns shares in a Chinese fentanyl manufacturer, despite failing to acknowledge a similar investment by Senator Bob Casey (D-PA).
A party press release reports that State Representative Jim Prokopiak (D-Bucks County) and Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie held a press conference to condemn McCormick for his investment and his stance on abortion.
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A man who was wrongly convicted of murder in San Francisco when Vice President Kamala Harris was serving as the city’s district attorney, and who later received more than $13 million in a settlement after he was acquitted following six years in prison endorsed former President Donald Trump in his bid for the White House in 2024.
Trulove endorsed Trump in a video posted to YouTube on July 28, explaining that he previously supported the Biden-Harris ticket during the 2020 election in a bid to preserve his entertainment career.
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Pennsylvania U.S. House candidate Alfe Goodwin told The Pennsylvania Daily Star on Tuesday the past support of the Defund the Police movement by Vice President Kamala Harris, Governor Tim Walz, and her opponent Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA-05) contributed to the police shortage in Philadelphia and its surrounding communities.
Goodwin told The Star her 14 years of experience with the Philadelphia Police Department gave her a “unique perspective” when Scanlon and other Democrats in 2020 expressed support for defunding the police, who she called “the first ones to see the results of policy” due to their presence in local communities.
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Pennsylvania police department confirmed it is investigating after a swastika was spray painted on the floor of a barn owned by the private Westtown School but rented by the FarmerJawn regenerative organic farm.
An August 6 press release published on Monday by the Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police Department confirms FarmerJawn owner Christa Barfield called officers after an employee discovered “a swastika had been spray painted on the floor of one of the barns that she leases from the Westtown School.”
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A 23-year veteran of the U.S. Army told The Pennsylvania Daily Star the explanation offered by the Harris-Walz campaign about the stolen valor allegations levied by Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) and veterans against Governor Tim Walz would only lead to more questions and skepticism from veterans.
Alfe Goodwin, the Pennsylvania Republican who will oppose Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA-05) in November, told The Star she enlisted after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and continues to serve in the reserve component.
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The Butler Township Police Department (BTPD) told The Pennsylvania Daily Star on Monday it has no records of written communications between the U.S. Secret Service and Thomas Crooks, who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump on July 13.
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