Pennsylvania
Biden heads to Pennsylvania to discuss combating gun violence
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U.S. President Joe Biden disembarks from Air Pressure One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., August 29, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photograph
WASHINGTON, Aug 30 (Reuters) – President Joe Biden will journey to the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Tuesday to debate his efforts to scale back gun violence, a high concern amongst Individuals forward of congressional elections in November.
Biden will use his go to to the small metropolis of Wilkes-Barre to put out plans that embody asking Congress for $37 billion for crime prevention applications and offering a few of that cash to police to scale back gun crime.
The request, unveiled in price range proposals earlier this month, will embody $13 billion over the subsequent 5 years to rent and practice an extra 100,000 cops.
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Forward of the elections in November, many Republican candidates are portraying Democrats as unwilling to combat rising crime charges in some components of the nation.
They’re additionally making an attempt to tie them to the “defund the police” motion that arose out of racial justice protests in 2020, though many Democrats, together with Biden, have by no means supported slashing police funds. learn extra
As in 2020, when Biden was elected president, Pennsylvania shall be a key battleground state in November and within the subsequent presidential election in 2024.
It’s dwelling to one in all a handful of aggressive Senate races that can decide whether or not Democrats can maintain onto their razor-thin majority within the U.S. Senate.
However some Democratic candidates within the state and elsewhere have wrestled with whether or not to affix Biden on the marketing campaign path, with some fearing his low approval rankings might drag down their campaigns. learn extra
John Fetterman, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania and the state’s present lieutenant governor, was not anticipated to affix Biden for the occasion on Tuesday however deliberate to fulfill with him at one other Pennsylvania occasion on subsequent week.
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Reporting by Nandita Bose and Trevor Hunnicutt in Washington; Modifying by Cynthia Osterman
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Bill to ensure access to contraception advances in Pennsylvania, aided by dozens of GOP House votes
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Planned Parenthood PA Advocates executive director Signe Espinoza called the proposal “an enormous shift toward control over our bodies.”
“We must have control over if and when we decide to start our families, but Pennsylvania has for too long allowed loopholes, exemptions and oversights to stand between us and our autonomy,” Espinoza said in a statement.
Rep. Krueger said in an interview Monday that she also was concerned about Justice Clarence Thomas’ concurring opinion in the U.S. Supreme Court decision on abortion access two years ago. Thomas wrote that the Supreme Court “should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents,” including cases that found married people have the right to obtain contraceptives, people can engage in private, consensual sex acts and the right to same-sex marriage.
A state law could help people obtain contraceptives if federal law changes, Krueger said.
“We have seen that access to reproductive health care, including contraception, is coming down to a state’s rights issue,” Krueger said.
In other states, contraception has been a politically contentious issue. A review earlier this month by the Guttmacher Institute, which advocates for abortion access, found several states have proposed or enacted laws to reduce access to contraception this year.
KFF, a nonprofit that studies health care issues, said in May that 14 states have legal or constitutional protections for the right to contraception, with six states and Washington, D.C., enacting them since the high court’s decision on abortion in June 2022.
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Pa. woman who drowned after being swept over waterfall in Glacier National Park is ID’d
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A 26-year-old Pennsylvania woman drowned after being swept over a waterfall on the east side of Glacier National Park in Montana, park officials said.
National Park Service officials on Tuesday identified the victim as Gillian Tones from North Apollo in western Pennsylvania’s Armstrong County. She was remembered as caring and kind, triblive.com reported.
Tones fell into the water above St. Mary Falls at around 5:20 p.m. Sunday. She was washed over the 35-foot (11-meter) tall waterfall and trapped under water for several minutes, the park said in a statement.
Bystanders pulled Tones from the water and administered CPR until emergency responders arrived. She was declared dead at 7 p.m., park officials said.
The death is under investigation, and an autopsy was planned.
Her name was initially withheld until family members could be notified.
Drowning is one of the leading causes of death in Glacier National Park, according to the National Park Service.
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Pennsylvania
Conestoga Road Closing Weekdays For 2 Months In Radnor: PennDOT
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RADNOR TOWNSHIP, PA — Conestoga Road in Radnor Township will have a weekday closure due to Aqua Pennsylvania work for about two months, PennDOT said.
According to PennDOT, a weekday closure is scheduled on Conestoga Road between Lowrys Lane and Glenbrook Avenue in Radnor.
The closure will be in place weekdays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. from Monday, July 1 to Friday, Aug. 30,
During the closure, drivers will be detoured, using Sproul Road/Route 320, Lancaster Avenue/U.S. 30, and County Line Road.
Local access will be maintained up to the work zone.
Drivers are advised to allow extra time when traveling through or near the work area because backups and delays will occur.
All scheduled activities are weather dependent.
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