Bradstock challenges Reschenthaler for U.S. House seat
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By TAYLOR BROWN, Senior Reporter 
October 31, 2026
The Republican has represented the 14th District since 2018. Republican U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, seeking another term representing Pennsylvania’s 14th Congressional District, will face Democratic ...
Early voting jumps across Senate battlegrounds
Around The Valley, Latest News, Main, ...
October 31, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Early voting is significantly outpacing the last midterm election, with millions more Americans casting ballots in advance and particularly sharp increases in states hosting competit...
Politics
By By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Politics Writer 
October 31, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s major political parties are at a crossroads. A decade after he began to remake the Republican Party in his image, President Donald Trump is facing the prospect of a voter ...
The good reasons and bad politics surrounding a third Trump impeachment
Opinion, Politics
October 31, 2026
Acoalition of rightwing organizations and activists is lobbying the White House to grant mass pardons to junior staffers in the administration. “A pardon for all junior administration personnel is vie...
El-Sayed should answer the question
Opinion, Politics
October 30, 2026
It’s been called a “Viral Takedown of MAGA Heckler.” But Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed was simply asked if he “would disavow the Muslim Brotherhood.” “Why are you asking the ques...
Opinion, Politics
October 30, 2026
AS VOTERS APPROACH the midterm elections, each party is eager to make the choice seem simple. Democrats point to the cost of living and argue that Republicans have failed to deliver economic relief. R...
Chaos could be coming
Opinion, Politics
October 30, 2026
Here is an increasingly likely scenario: Republicans lose badly in the midterm elections, and President Trump throws the country into chaos by challenging the results. Trump has always approached poli...
Opinion, Politics
October 29, 2026
WESTMORELAND COUNTY commissioners think maybe — just maybe — it might be time to think about capping salary increases for county elected officials. The idea was floated last week. “We’re not in the ga...
The logic behind Trump’s ‘pretend I’m on the ballot’
Opinion, Politics
October 29, 2026
In the 2024 presidential election, President Donald Trump won each of Iowa’s four congressional districts. He won the 1st District by 8 points, the 2nd District by 10 points, the 3rd District (which i...
News, Politics
By By ALI SWENSON Associated Press 
October 29, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — Social media videos believed to be produced with artificial intelligence and linked to Russia are misusing real people’s names and photographs to spread disinformation about two Democr...
Politics
By By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press 
October 28, 2026
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republicans are worried that Libertarian candidates could siphon away votes in some of this year’s most consequential U.S. Senate elections, potentially costing them control of...
Republicans are reaping what they sowed in farm country
Opinion, Politics
October 28, 2026
BONDURANT, Iowa — You know you’re in Iowa when your car is passed on Interstate 80 by a 12-wheeler truck with the message “Pork Blood Only — Inedible, Not Intended for Human Food.” You know it’s campa...
Today is the deadline to apply for a mail-in ballot
Opinion, Politics
October 27, 2026
IF YOU’RE LOOKING TO AVOID waiting in line at the polls on Election Day, today is the deadline to apply for a mail-in ballot for the Nov. 3 general election. “If you want to vote by mail, now is the t...
The deep midterms
Opinion, Politics
October 27, 2026
There are two ways of looking at the midterms, now less than three weeks away. One is as a simple referendum on the issues and politicians of the day. The other involves a far deeper conflict of visio...
Opinion, Politics
October 26, 2026
HARRISBURG HAS BEEN FLUSH with work to do in 2026. Legislators in Pennsylvania, like those in the federal government, do not function in a single-year calendar. They work in two-year cycles as the Hou...
Opinion, Politics
October 24, 2026
To the Editor: According to the calendar, approximately two years remain of Donald Trump’s tenure as president of the United States. Since his inauguration in 2024, nothing has been the same since tha...
Opinion, Politics
October 24, 2026
By JULIE CARR SMYTH AND THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The backlash over an Ohio campaign advertisement attacking Amy Acton, the Democratic nominee for governor, spread beyond ...