After President Donald Trump unsuccessfully tried to use the U.S. Postal Service to regulate mail voting this spring, polls showed that voters — particularly Democrats — had less confidence in election mail and might move away from mail voting. With less than three weeks until Election ...
(The Center Square) - The prospect of a data center company being able to take land by eminent domain stirred near-unanimous support for a House bill that would prevent that scenario - and its sponsor on Tuesday said he was motivated in part by a statement by a tech titan. Democratic Rep. Chris Pielli of Chester County, speaking the day after the House voted 202-1 to pass his bill, referred to a March statement by OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman. At the time, Altman said, "We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a ...
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a case challenging race-based admissions policies in Maryland schools. The high court agreed to hear Association for Education Fairness v. Montgomery County Board of Education, a case focused on a group of parents in Montgomery County who say four magnet middle schools discrimnated on the basis of race in admissions policies. The parents say Asian American students were underrepresented after the schools changed certain admissions policies to increase enrollment for Black and Hispanic students in 2016. In 2020, ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Shortly after hearing their names called in front of record-setting crowds on Pittsburgh's North Shore at the 2026 draft, the Steelers' rookie class did what some do when they find themselves thrust together by circumstance: they started a group chat. Over the past six ...
ALTOONA — The James E. Van Zandt VA Medical Center in Altoona has received additional federal funding for infrastructure improvements, including repairs to its fire suppression system and renovations to its fourth-floor acute care ward. The funding was awarded during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2026 through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Non-Recurring Maintenance program. The medical center also received funding for improvement projects earlier in the year. The Altoona projects are part of a nationwide $4.8 billion investment by the VA to modernize, repair and ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Trea Turner has seven years left on his $300 million contract with the Phillies. He has through about spring training to get his defense together and remain Philadelphia's starting shortstop. A year after Dave Dombrowski put Bryce Harper on blast, the top Phillies ...
