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Courtesy/Second Harvest Food Bank Facebook PageThe slashing of federal funding coupled with the state's budget impasse has set back Second Harvest Food Bank and the families in need it serves across the counties of Lehigh, Northampton, Monroe, Wayne, Pike and Carbon, organizers say.
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Jenny Roberts/LehighValleyNews.comThe Lehigh Valley’s James Lawson Freedom School is a six-week summer program that uses a multicultural literacy curriculum and an intergenerational teaching model.

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The two Pennsylvania Republicans are key figures in former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to the House Jan. 6 Committee.
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A Democrat who promised to govern as an independent was elected speaker of the narrowly divided Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Tuesday on the strength of about a dozen GOP votes.
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The new lawmakers from the Lehigh Valley joined more than 50 other new faces who were ceremonially sworn in to the General Assembly in Harrisburg.
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More than a dozen conservative Republicans rebelled against Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, preventing a House speaker from being elected on the first two rounds of votes.
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Lawmakers in Pennsylvania’s state House are scheduled to elect a new speaker Tuesday.
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The new Congress, including Rep. Susan Wild and Senator-elect John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, will be sworn into office at noon on Jan. 3, 2023.
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Jarrett Coleman initially planned to stay on as a Parkland School Board member while simultaneously serving in the state Senate. He changed course last month. Good government advocates say such an arrangement creates the potential for conflicts of interest.
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Elected leaders will jockey for control of the House for at least a few more weeks.
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Pennsylvania’s top elections official is fully certifying results from the November vote.
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Deposition transcripts released Wednesday by the Jan. 6 Committee revealed new details about the role that Pennsylvania Republicans played in Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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Both Allentown and Bethlehem would be split into different Senate districts under the plan.
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Advocacy groups and Democrats want the state to block the request for voters' partial social security numbers and other sensitive information.
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Democrats say the new draft has little chance of passing because it wasn't negotiated with the governor's office.
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The ACLU is concerned that voter information can be kept safe.
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Both the Pa. Senate and House say they intend to hold public hearings on the redistricting proposals.
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An extreme-right TV commentator has thrown the political world in France into turmoil by launching a presidential campaign ahead of next April's election.
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The White House wants to boost global commitments to human rights and fighting corruption. But as the summit convenes, American democracy itself is under pressure.
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Envoy Sage can’t protect data, Attorney General says, and is not qualified to conduct election auditShapiro says Envoy Sage is run by a partisan actor and 'can't be trusted.'
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What are Pa.'s Senate Republicans getting for the $275,000 they are spending to audit the 2020 election yet again?
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One third of Pennsylvanians have said the pandemic has affected their mental health.
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A total of 261 mail-in ballots remain uncounted and could swing the outcome.
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Pa. House Republicans have threatened to impeach the Lehigh County election board if the mail-in votes are counted.