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By By MEG KINNARD Associated Press 
July 7, 2024
CHAPIN, S.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden ‘s campaign provided lists of approved questions to two radio hosts who did the first interviews with him after his faltering debate performance, both hosts sai...
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July 7, 2024
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA is not a melting pot of cultures. The people who have come to or passed through Pittsburgh and surrounding communities have not blended into a homogeneous puree of creamy uniformi...
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July 7, 2024
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As President Joe Biden tries to revive his embattled reelection bid, Vice President Kamala Harris led a parade of Black Democrats who warned Saturday that the threat of another Dona...
As Biden falters, Europeans look to safeguard NATO
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July 7, 2024
The organization will celebrate its 75th anniversary this week. WASHINGTON (AP) — Growing skepticism about President Joe Biden’s reelection chances has European leaders heading to the NATO summit in W...
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Democracy at stake
July 5, 2024
To the Editor: People better wake up! Who decides what is correct? Only you do. If you believe the one-sided only view of CNN, MSNBC, NPR, ABC, CBS, NBC, and even FOX, where the major hosts make milli...
Biden rejects independent medical evaluation as he fights to stay in race
Politics
July 5, 2024
Several prominent Democrats have called on the president to step down in the wake of his debate performance. MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Joe Biden, fighting to save his endangered reelection effort...
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July 4, 2024
IN THE FALL OF 1774, 56 men from 12 of the 13 American colonies met in Philadelphia in the First Continental Congress. It included John Adams and his cousin Samuel, Patrick Henry, John Jay and George ...
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‘Idiotic’ comments
July 4, 2024
To the Editor: Here it is, a day after Independence Day, and in a few months, Grampa Joe and Donnie, a man with 34 felonies, are running for the highest office in the land. I am afraid if Donnie is el...
The last firewall
Politics
July 4, 2024
“Save the House!” That’s the rallying cry Democrats are increasingly likely to embrace as they confront the fallout from Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance. Here’s the reality: Biden shows no s...
Dems must nominate a new candidate
Politics
July 4, 2024
Toward the end of last week’s Biden vs. Trump debate on CNN, I got up from the TV and posted this message on Facebook: “It’s a catastrophe. The Democratic Party has to do something. Biden is coming ac...
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July 4, 2024
SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom offered a forceful defense of embattled President Joe Biden on Thursday, telling Democrats in Michigan that the 81-year-old president has the rec...
Biden’s big bluff
Politics
July 2, 2024
Until a week ago, President Joe Biden seemingly had the age issue under control. Yes, he had senior moments, some of which were quite severe, such as the episode at the White House Juneteenth concert ...
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July 2, 2024
To the Editor: Trump is like an aging comedian whose jokes were once funny and now have gone stale. “Build the wall! Mexico will pay for it!” Alas, he didn’t build it and they didn’t pay. “Lock her up...
An unsurprisingly uninspiring debate
Politics
July 1, 2024
“Idid not have sex with a porn star.” Donald Trump’s statement in response to an arguably ad hominem attack from Joe Biden during their June 27 debate must have given more than a few of us flashbacks ...
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July 1, 2024
HUNDREDS OF FIRST RESPONDERS from around the region traveled to Ringgold High School Saturday to attend the public funeral service for beloved Donora Fire Co. President Rhys Juwan Taylor. At the young...
Stop the Ukrainian meat grinder?
Politics
July 1, 2024
Nearly 11 months ago, in August 2023, the New York Times reported that U.S. officials had estimated that some 500,000 Russians and Ukrainians had been killed, wounded, or missing in the then 18-month ...