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Pennsylvania primary election: ‘Explosive device’ thrown from car near polling site

Pennsylvania primary election: ‘Explosive device’ thrown from car near polling site

Authorities in Pennsylvania are investigating after an “unknown explosive device” was allegedly thrown from a vehicle near a polling place on Tuesday morning as voters headed to the polls for the state’s primary election, according to The Mirror US. A person arrives at the polls to cast their ballot in the Pennsylvania primary election on May 19, 2026 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Primary voting took place in Pennsylvania with heated local elections, and several candidates are eyeing seats in Congress in the Midterms in November. (Getty Images via AFP) The incident took place near Salem United Church of Christ in Catasauqua, Lehigh County, a church that was serving as a polling location during Tuesday’s primaries. Explosion reported Pennsylvania State Police said there was some kind of explosion near a vehicle in the area shortly after polls opened. Trooper Nathan Banosky said during a media briefing that authorities were responding to an “unknown explosive device” incident near the polling site, The Mirror US reported. He added that there had been some “sort of explosion” near a vehicle …

Hackers threaten to leak ‘woke’ University of Pennsylvania student data

Hackers threaten to leak ‘woke’ University of Pennsylvania student data

“We got hacked,” members of the University of Pennsylvania community were told in the subject line of several emails sent from addresses linked to its Graduate School of Education. The sender, apparently, was the potential hacker or hackers themselves. “The University of Pennsylvania is a dogshit elitist institution full of woke retards,” said the emails, which were received by several alumni including a Verge author who attended the University of Pennsylvania. “We have terrible security practices and are completely unmeritocratic. We hire and admit morons because we love legacies, donors, and unqualified affirmative action admits. We love breaking federal laws like FERPA (all your data will be leaked) and Supreme Court rulings like SFFA. Please stop giving us money.” The apparent hacker or hackers referenced the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which protects the privacy of students’ personal information that’s shared with schools. SFFA appears to refer to Students for Fair Admissions, the group that was at the forefront of the Supreme Court ruling that struck down race-based affirmative action for college admissions. Penn …

Shooting At Hospital In US’ Pennsylvania, Reports Say Gunman Killed

Shooting At Hospital In US’ Pennsylvania, Reports Say Gunman Killed

Several shots were fired at a hospital in central Pennsylvania, with the gunman being reportedly killed in the encounter with police. The incident took place at the UPMC Memorial Hospital and some people are reportedly injured. Pennsylvania Governor, Josh Shapiro, said, “I’ve been briefed on the tragic shooting at UPMC Memorial Hospital in York County and I am on my way to the scene. The hospital is now secure and members of the police are on the ground responding alongside our local and federal partners.” I’ve been briefed on the tragic shooting at UPMC Memorial Hospital in York County and I am on my way to the scene. The hospital is now secure and members of the @PAStatePolice and @PEMAHQ are on the ground responding alongside our local and federal partners. Follow the… — Governor Josh Shapiro (@GovernorShapiro) February 22, 2025 “Follow the direction of local authorities and stay clear of the area. We will share more updates as they become available,” Mr Shapiro said. A video, which is viral on social media, shows a …

Trump campaign drops staffer in Pennsylvania after links to white nationalist views surfaced

Trump campaign drops staffer in Pennsylvania after links to white nationalist views surfaced

Last week, a Donald Trump staffer was reportedly dropped from his job in Pennsylvania after it was revealed that he was a White nationalist. The report also suggested that he also made a few racist remarks online. The fired staff member went by a different name online as exposed in a Politico report. Trump staffer Luke Meyer fired for white nationalist ties and racist remarks online. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)(AP) Also Read: Trump thanks Joe Rogan for endorsing him, says ‘I have some more big news’ at Pittsburgh rally Who was the Trump campaign staffer? The Trump campaign staffer was a 24-year-old male named Luke Meyer who went by the name of Alberto Barbarossa on the internet. He was the Trump campaign’s regional field director for Western Pennsylvania. He was identified when Politico’s Amanda Moore linked Meyer to the online personality of Barbarossa. Following the findings of the report he was fired last Friday. In the report, Moore wrote, “Last week, I confirmed that Luke Meyer, the Trump campaign’s 24-year-old regional field director for Western Pennsylvania, …

Eyes, West! America to seal fate of Trump, Harris today | Latest News India

Eyes, West! America to seal fate of Trump, Harris today | Latest News India

American voters head to their polling booths on Tuesday to choose either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris as the country’s 47th president, on the final day of voting in what is the most consequential election for the US and the world in decades. The Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, and the Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. (REUTERS) The battle between the former American president, a convicted felon who rejected the 2020 electoral outcome and is fighting on a platform to remake the American state, and the sitting American vice president, who is the first Black woman and the first person of Indian heritage to be a major party nominee, has been unprecedented. Harris formally became the Democratic nominee only in August after a disastrous debate performance forced President Joe Biden out of the race. Despite a set of legal charges against him, Trump became the party nominee after decisively defeating all his challengers in the Republican primary and reshaping the party in the mould of his “Make America Great …

Lady Gaga ‘gets ready to vote’ for…: Pop star joins Pennsylvania rally leading lineup ft Katy Perry | Hollywood

Lady Gaga ‘gets ready to vote’ for…: Pop star joins Pennsylvania rally leading lineup ft Katy Perry | Hollywood

Nov 04, 2024 08:02 AM IST Lady Gaga has joined Katy Perry and a slew of other celebrity-stacked endorsements supporting the Harris-Walz campaign days ahead of the US election. The already stacked roster of celebrity endorsements pitching in support of the Democratic-led Harris-Walz campaign powered up to the next level on Sunday, November 3, as Lady Gaga announced her official presidential endorsement on social media. Days ahead of the November 5 election, the pop star urged her 57 million followers to “get ready to vote” soon after another star-studded lineup for Kamala Harris‘ Monday rally in Philadelphia was revealed. Lady Gaga attends the Los Angeles Premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures “Joker: Folie a Deux” at TCL Chinese Theatre on September 30, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Getty Images via AFP) Sharing a video message on Instagram, Gaga said, “It’s time to get ready to vote. I’ll see you guys in Pennsylvania.” Although she didn’t directly shout out the words in the clip, her post caption spelled out her political alignment as “HARRIS WALZ 2024!!,” leaving no …

Elon Musk’s M-a-day voter sweepstakes for Trump goes before a Philadelphia judge | News Today News

Elon Musk’s $1M-a-day voter sweepstakes for Trump goes before a Philadelphia judge | News Today News

A Philadelphia judge began a hearing Thursday in the city prosecutor’s bid to shut down Elon Musk’s $1 million-a-day sweepstakes in battleground states. The giveaways come from Musk’s political organization, which aims to boost Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Lawyers for Musk filed a motion late Wednesday seeking to move the case to federal court, saying it involves a federal election issue, but that didn’t stop a state judge, Angelo Foglietta, from hearing the case at City Hall. Lawyers for Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said Musk and the America PAC “brazenly” continued the lottery every day this week, including this morning, despite Krasner’s effort to shut it down. Attorney Matthew Haverstick, representing Musk and the political action committee, said the judge should abort the matter given the motion to remove it to federal court. Krasner, a Democrat, filed suit Monday to stop the America PAC sweepstakes, which is set to run through Election Day, open to registered voters in battleground states who sign a petition supporting the Constitution. Election law experts have raised questions about …

Hundreds of Pennsylvania voters are challenged based on postal service’s change-of-address database

Hundreds of Pennsylvania voters are challenged based on postal service’s change-of-address database

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Counties in Philadelphia’s suburbs are being asked to throw out the mail-in ballot applications of hundreds of voters in what the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania said are mass-produced and illegal challenges. Hundreds of Pennsylvania voters are challenged based on postal service’s change-of-address database The challenges question the voter’s residence based on a supposed match with a U.S. Postal Service change-of-address database. Diane Houser, a supporter of former President Donald Trump who filed over 200 of the challenges in Chester County, said the challenges are nonpartisan and from a grassroots network targeting the ballot applications of people who moved out of state. However, the ACLU said the challenges are illegal because voters can only be challenged on their qualifications to register to vote. Friday is the deadline for such challenges, which the ACLU said must be based on specific evidence that a certain would-be voter is not eligible to vote. The challenges are based on a faulty premise that someone is moving out-of-state permanently because the change-of-address forms are also designed …

Harris calls on the US ‘to turn the page on hatred and division’ as she crisscrosses Philadelphia | News Today News

Harris calls on the US ‘to turn the page on hatred and division’ as she crisscrosses Philadelphia | News Today News

Kamala Harris told a Philadelphia church congregation that the United States is “determined to turn the page on hatred and division” as she began crisscrossing the Democratic stronghold Sunday. Energizing supporters in the largest city in the swing state of Pennsylvania is crucial for Harris’ campaign, and she’s focusing on voters of color with a little more than a week to go before the November. 5 election. In her remarks to the predominantly Black audience at the Church of Christian Compassion, Harris drew on the story of the Apostle Paul, who overcome difficulties to spread the word of Jesus. “In hard times when we may grow weary in doing good, we must remember the power that works within us, the divine power that transformed Paul’s life, guided him through shipwreck and sustained him through trials,” Harris said. W. Lonnie Herndon, the church’s senior pastor, introduced Harris as “the voice of the future” and followed her remarks with a sermon about compassion and how “strong people never put others down, they lift them up.” “In nine …

Sen. John Fetterman ‘astonished’ by Trump’s impact in Pennsylvania, likens it to Taylor Swift

Sen. John Fetterman ‘astonished’ by Trump’s impact in Pennsylvania, likens it to Taylor Swift

John Fetterman was left amazed by Donald Trump’s impact in Pennsylvania. The battleground state’s senator likened the former president to the hype surrounding Taylor Swift while predicting that Elon Musk’s endorsement is “going to really matter.” The 55-year-old made the remarks during a Saturday interview with the New York Times. Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman was ‘astonished’ by Donald Trump’s impact in the battleground state(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, @taylorswift/Instagram) Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman ‘astonished’ by Trump’s impact in battleground state “There’s a difference between not understanding, but also acknowledging that it exists and anybody who spends time driving around, and you can see the intensity. It’s astonishing,” Fetterman said of Trump’s campaign appearance in Pennsylvania. “I was doing an event in Indiana County. Very, very red. And there was a superstore of Trump stuff, and it was a hundred feet long,” he went. The Democratic senator continued to say, “[There were] dozens of T-shirts and hats and bumper stickers and all kinds of, I mean, it’s like, Where does this all come from? It’s the kind …