Pennsylvania
Biden to hit the campaign trail in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania for Labor Day
President Joe Biden will spend his Labor Day in marketing campaign mode, with occasions deliberate in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania to showcase his pro-union file and have fun “the dignity of American employees.”
The commander-in-chief will depart Washington D.C. Monday morning for Milwaukee, Wisc., the place he’ll attend a significant union pageant known as Laborfest. Quite a few previous Democratic presidents have attended the occasion, together with Invoice Clinton and Barack Obama. The town will host a Labor Day parade, although Biden is not going to be in attendance as a consequence of safety considerations. Labor Day weekend is extensively understood because the unofficial begin of the midterm election season.
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The president will then head to Pittsburgh, Pa., a significant union metropolis the place he launched his 2020 White Home bid, the place he’s anticipated to seem at occasions with Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, who’s in a good race in opposition to superstar doctor Dr. Mehmet Oz for a vacant Senate seat, in addition to schooling and union leaders. Fetterman averted the president on his earlier visits to the Keystone State, making Monday the primary time the progressive Democrat might be seen with Biden within the midst of marketing campaign season.
The president has been suffering from low approval rankings for months, although his numbers have begun ticking up barely, inflicting many Democratic candidates in tight swing races to keep up a ways.
Pittsburgh can be residence to a premier Labor Day parade, which is being held Monday for the primary time in three years. Whereas Biden has walked within the parade beforehand, and was initially believed to be strolling throughout this yr’s festivities, a White Home spokesman mentioned that the president would miss the morning occasion whereas campaigning in Wisconsin.
Biden’s journey to Pennsylvania marks his third go to to the state in lower than every week. He was in Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday to discuss gun security and delivered a prime-time presidential deal with, the place he took purpose at Republicans, from the historic Independence Corridor in Philadelphia on Thursday.
The president shouldn’t be the one main political title devoting time to the must-win battleground state.
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Former President Donald Trump held his first rally for the reason that FBI’s unprecedented search of his Mar-a-Lago property on Saturday night in Wilkes-Barre, the place he stumped for his candidates of selection within the November midterms: Oz and state Sen. Doug Mastriano, the Republican gubernatorial nominee. The previous president endorsed each of their extremely aggressive major races and now every face uphill climbs to enhance their standings normally election polls.
Along with Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris will even court docket union leaders Monday to have fun Labor Day. She’s going to journey to Boston, Mass., to participate in a significant labor occasion.
Pennsylvania
Firefighters battle 2-alarm house fire in Chester, Pa., amid sub-freezing temperatures
Thursday, January 9, 2025 1:23PM
Firefighters in Chester, Pennsylvania, dealt with sub-freezing temperatures while battling the flames during a house fire.
CHESTER, Pa. (WPVI) — Firefighters in Chester, Pennsylvania, dealt with sub-freezing temperatures while battling the flames during a house fire.
Authorities say the fire broke out in a three-story twin home at 1 a.m. on Thursday in the 200 block of West 7th Street. It grew to two alarms before firefighters were able to get it under control.
Help arrived from first responders in neighboring communities in Delaware County.
Officials said they don’t know what sparked it yet.
No injuries have been reported.
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Pennsylvania
Over $500,000 in cash stolen from safe in Pennsylvania home burglary
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pennsylvania State Police Troopers are investigating a burglary in Indiana County where more than $500,000 in cash was recently stolen from a safe inside a home.
State Police from the Punxsutawney barracks say their Troopers are investigating the burglary that happened in the morning hours of New Year’s Eve last week in Canoe Township.
Troopers say a gun safe inside a home was burglarized and a firearm along with stacks of $100 bills worth more than $500,000 were taken.
The stacks of $100 bills were said to be stapled together and State Police provided a photo showing what the bills would look like once unstapled.
Anyone with information about the burglary or the stolen money is asked to call the State Police barracks or the State Police tip line and can also submit information online.
State Police say a cash reward could be provided for information that leads to an arrest.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania program overturns 50% of health insurance denials, new data shows
However, information about how often individual insurance companies deny coverage, and how many cases are appealed and overturned, is scarce and not publicly reported most of the time.
Insurance denials can lead to delays in care and medical debt. State officials estimate that 1 million people in Pennsylvania have some medical debt from unpaid bills and other charges.
In Pennsylvania, residents can file an appeal with the state’s Independent External Review program after they have already completed an internal appeals process with their health insurer.
If they are still denied coverage, people can then submit their case to the state review process, where independent, third-party reviewers analyze individual claims and give a final determination on whether the insurer’s denial was valid or if it must be overturned.
The review program is open to people who have health insurance through a state health plan, the Affordable Care Act Marketplace and other commercial insurance, including employer-sponsored plans offered at private companies, nonprofits and organizations.
People who get insurance from their employer through self-funded plans, in which the employer or company pays health claims directly rather than through the insurance company, are excluded from using the state review program.
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