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That includes trips to Israel funded by the charity arm of AIPAC and to Taiwan funded by the government.

Private equity firms have a record of cutting services at health providers and leaving them with debt or gaps in care. Patients can face higher costs, and communities can lose hospitals.

Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi has proposed closing the DuBois, Fayette, Mont Alto, New Kensington, Shenango, Wilkes-Barre, and York campuses. University trustees still need to vote on the plan.

Experts say the U.S. Supreme Court ruling ushered in an era of unprecedented spending on elections by ultra-wealthy special interests.

The U.S. hadn’t seen a measles death in a decade until this year, but vaccine hesitancy has helped fuel spread of the highly contagious disease.

The Shapiro administration says Pennsylvania has enough in reserves to address avian influenza, but Republican lawmakers aren’t convinced that reallocating that funding is responsible.

The state started tracking deaths as older adults were dying in alarmingly higher numbers. Then a top aging official halted the process.

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s budget proposal includes $10 million for a Pennsylvania fund that assists financially distressed local governments.

Lobbyists say such donations can lead to access, but the state’s weak transparency laws make it nearly impossible to trace influence.

In a letter to the homeland security secretary, Al Schmidt cites critical help local election officials get from the U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA.

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Judicial retention elections in Pennsylvania are usually sleepy. But this year, Republicans say they’re going all in to unseat three Democratic Supreme Court justices.

The governor’s latest budget pitch would send an additional $290 million to the state’s public transit agencies, invest more in a new student-teacher stipend, and more.

A legalization bill needs to win majority support from an 11-person state Senate committee. Just 3 members are publicly on board.

Gov. Josh Shapiro is expected to reuse ideas from his first two years in office that have yet to win enough support in the legislature.