Ian Karbal, Pennsylvania Capital-Star
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Federal regulators hear from the community about planned Three Mile Island restart
Constellation Energy is working to reopen the nuclear facility by 2027 to power data centers for Microsoft.
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Gov. Shapiro joins lawsuit against against Trump administration over defunding of Planned Parenthood
The suit centers on a provision of the recently-passed mega bill , which enacts many of President Donald Trump’s domestic policy priorities.
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For Pa.’s NIOSH employees, uncertainty remains amid lawsuits and mixed signals
After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled through its shadow docket earlier this month that President Donald Trump could move forward with plans to fire tens of thousands of federal workers, U.S. government employees across Pennsylvania braced themselves.
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He filmed an Allentown officer driving at him. Now he’s launching a First Amendment suit.
The lawsuit names the city of Allentown and two police officers, Sgt. Christopher Stephenson and now-retired Officer Dean Flyte.
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What’s at stake over proposed increase in mass transit funding in Pa.?
“If they cut the 32 bus especially, there goes my job. There goes my place to live. It’d put my freedom on the line.”
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Brian Fitzpatrick is only Pa. Republican to oppose Trump’s budget bill
The collar county congressman objected to Medicaid cuts added by the U.S. Senate.
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State House advances bill to increase minimum wage in Pennsylvania
The state House is inching closer to passing a bill to raise the minimum wage in Pennsylvania, an outcome long sought by Democrats and opposed by Republicans.
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Job cuts reversed at Pittsburgh lab that certifies nation’s respirators
Federal employees had been preparing to shutter the lab in June.
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Deadline to register to vote in May 20 primaries only two weeks away
The upcoming primaries will determine which candidates advance in a host of local and statewide races that will be held in November.
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Measles cases up in Pa. and some counties lag behind school vaccination targets
In many counties, measles vaccination rates among school-aged children are below 95%, the target for herd immunity. And rates have been declining since the COVID-19 pandemic.
