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The recent flurry of battleground state polling shows Hillary Clinton maintaining her electoral college advantage and provides some clarity to the best possible paths to 270 electoral votes for each candidate. Since our last assessment of the state of play on the road to 270, we made some significant changes.
Giving Melania a run for her money? Meet the Republican VP pick's teacher wife of 31 years - who has her own business selling towel charms - and their three children in the Marines and media Russia's ENTIRE team could be banned from Rio Olympics: Thirty anti-doping officials and athlete groups from the US, Canada and more to demand expulsion Burglary suspect 'had a stolen human brain nicknamed "Freddy" hidden under a friend's trailer in a Wal-Mart shopping bag and used the embalming fluid to get HIGH' 'The coup is a gift from God': Erdogan uses botched rebellion to start purge - including arresting of 3,000 secular judges - to forge radical new Turkey after urging Islamists to stay on the streets Did Erdogan STAGE the coup? US-based Turkish cleric facing extradition over botched rebellion claims president orchestrated plot to justify a clampdown on civil rights FAA bans all flights from ... (more)
Under wraps for 13 years, the U.S. on Friday released once-top secret pages from a congressional report into 9/11 that questioned whether Saudis who were in contact with the hijackers after they arrived in the U.S. knew what they were planning. The newly declassified document , with light redactions, names people the hijackers associated with before they carried out the attacks, killing nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and on a plane that crashed in Pennsylvania.
Democratic strategists are alarmed at how well Donald Trump's anti-free trade rhetoric is playing with normally Democratic union members -- even though it is accompanied by explicit attacks on presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton as being the candidate of the "people who rigged" the U.S. economy to favor the wealthiest 1 percent. A recent analysis in The Washington Post noted that the anti-trade themes laid out in Trump's scripted June 28 speech played so well in Pennsylvania that he was winning praise from Katie McGinty, the Democrats' nominee for Senate in the swing state.
Hillary Clinton is adding a campaign stop to her swing through Pennsylvania on Friday to address one of the largest black religious denominations in the country. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee will address the African Methodist Episcopal Church's general conference, which is marking the organization's bicentennial in Philadelphia.
Donald Trump is suing the District of Columbia over an "excessive" tax bill for his upcoming luxury hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue. According to the suit, filed by Trump's lawyers on Thursday in the D.C. Superior Court, the city has requested that the billionaire pay around $1.7 million in tax for what the legal filings described as a "non-operational building undergoing a massive conversion to a hotel."
Donald J. Trump plans to name two respected Republican operatives to run his effort in Pennsylvania amid criticism that the real-estate developer has lagged in building the organization required of a presidential campaign. David Urban will be senior adviser and Ted Christian will be the state director, according to sources close to the Trump campaign who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to announce the move.
John Baer has written about politics and government for the Daily News since 1987. Neither subject ever fails to provide him with stories of policies and politicians walking on or skirting by paths to perdition.
The day sure looked like the debut of the Democratic Party's 2016 ticket. The pair coordinated outfits, spoke glowingly about one another, wrapped arms around each other and unified a fractured party at a crucial moment in this campaign.
Officer Caesar Goodson, one of six Baltimore city police officers charged in... . Members of the Baltimore Police Department walk near the intersection of North and Pennsylvania Avenues, the site of unrest following the funeral of Freddie Gray, in Baltimore, Thursday, June 23, 2016.
Authorities say more than 400 animals were removed from a squalid Long Island home less than a year after a 4-foot alligator was removed from the property. Authorities say more than 400 animals were removed from a squalid Long Island home less than a year after a 4-foot alligator was removed from the property.
A cardinal difference between Donald Trump and Barry Goldwater is that partisanship is more intense today than it was in 1964 and the vast majority of Republicans who don't like Trump will hold their noses and vote for him. In 1964, GOP presidential nominee Barry Goldwater stood at the podium of the Republican National Convention and declared that "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
Jackie Lee Thompson poses for a portrait Tuesday June 7, 2016 near Wellsboro, Pa. Thompson, 61, appears to be the first of Pennsylvania's approximately 500 juvenile lifers released since the Supreme Court ruling in January.
They're with her! Hillary Clinton's celebrity supporters turn out en masse for glitzy Hollywood concert ahead of the California primary How the Shawshank prisoners seduced 'flirtatious' married prison worker into daily sex acts in the tailor shop and manipulated her into helping their escape by saying they would settle in a 'place on the beach' 'The groom didn't look at the bride once': Wedding guests reveal the most toe-curling moments from marriages guaranteed to end in divorce You dope! Angry father sells his weed-smoking son's car on Craigslist as a punishment after the youngster lost his job for skipping work 'It has to be a lonely painful experience': Sean Astin talks about Corey Feldman's child abuse claims as he praises Lord Of The Ring co-star Elijah Wood for showing his support and 'starting the conversation' American women are getting FATTER: For the first time, more than 4 in ... (more)
Now the Democrats' presumptive nominee, Hillary Clinton aimed for primary election victories in California and five other states Tuesday to send her into the general election with fresh momentum. Donald Trump got new blasts from his own Republican Party for his comments on a federal judge.
Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to loosen Pennsylvania's tightly controlled liquor system by letting groceries and other outlets sell takeout wine and by formalizing beer sales in convenience stores that have begun as a result of court cases. The House voted 157-31 to send the proposal to the desk of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf after a debate in which members said the changes carried considerable public support.
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In Pennsylvania, legislation tends to follow a circuitous path toward becoming a law. It can involve any number of constituent groups and lobbyists over a span of many years.