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Donna S. Fisher/For LehighValleyNews.comThe rescission bill affects public media and foreign aid and now heads back to the U.S. House, which previously passed a different version of the funding cuts. President Donald Trump must sign the legislation before midnight Friday to eliminate the previously approved funding. -
Jim Deegan/LehighValleyNews.comU.S. Rep. Ryan Mackenzie is sitting on $1.19 million in his campaign coffers. Meanwhile, Democratic hopefuls Ryan Crosswell, Lamont McClure and Carol Obando-Derstine raised a combined $616,675 toward their own campaigns in the past three months.
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Low polling numbers have kept Alex Khalil out of debates and largely out of public view.
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Michigan was a focal point in Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election. Zach Gorchow of Gongwer News Service tells NPR's Ailsa Chang that election misinformation still looms large there.
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County Executive Phillips Armstrong wants the upcoming primary to run as smoothly as possible.
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Frontrunners Dr. Mehmet Oz and David McCormick did not attend the forum at Dickinson College.
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Violators face fines up to $2,500 and two years' imprisonment, under Pa.'s election code.
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