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Scranton stands by native son Biden but even here enthusiasm is elusive

The president is never slow to recall his early years in the former Pennsylvania coal-mining town but still faces questions about his age and effectiveness

The Guardian - US

Biden trolls ‘the last guy’ Trump over jobs, China and pensions in Labor Day speech

‘When the last guy was here, he looked at the world from Park Avenue. I look at it from Scranton, Pennsylvania. I look at it from Claymont, Delaware,’ the president says in the City of Brotherly Love

The Independent UK

Biden to pay respects to former Pennsylvania first lady Ellen Casey, who died last week in Scranton

President Joe Biden is traveling to Pennsylvania Thursday to privately pay his respects to the mother of U.S. Sen. Bob Casey

The Independent UK

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Brickbat: Good Enough for Government Work

Former Scranton, Pennsylvania, police sergeant Jeffrey Vaughn has been sentenced to six months in prison followed by two years of probation after pleading guilty to theft from a program receiving federal funds. Vaughn was paid to perform overtime patrols at federally subsidized low-income housing projects, but he claimed 266 hours…

Reason

Global ammunition race may decide Ukraine war

At the US Army Ammunition Plant in President Joe Biden's hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, production lines are running day and night through the working week to deliver artillery shells.

Bangkok Post

Unprepared for long war, US Army under gun to make more ammo

One of the most important munitions of the Ukraine war comes from a historic factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania

The Independent UK

Booming Scranton, falling San Jose: The latest home price data for the nation’s 400 largest housing markets

These 7 charts tell us what's happening to home prices.

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What is Joe Biden’s Irish heritage?

US president immensely proud of heritage and loves to quote Yeats and Heaney

The Independent UK

What are Joe Biden’s Irish roots?

US president immensely proud of heritage and loves to quote Yeats and Heaney

The Independent UK

When will Gillian Flynn write the next ‘Gone Girl’? Later. She’s a publisher now

CHICAGO — Margot Douaihy reached Chicago's Lincoln Park in a roundabout way. She grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She came from a religious family and a long line of clergy. She went to Catholic school, but as she got older, Douaihy felt distanced from the church. She was queer and…

Chicago Tribune

How this American state gave us real insight into the state of a nation

CAN the oddly behaved man at a polling station in Pennsylvania really be hiding a gun?

The National (Scotland)

Ambition keeps him loyal to Donald Trump. But what does Kevin McCarthy stand for?

Kevin McCarthy was weeks away from the biggest election of his life when he pulled up to Don’s Machine Shop in Pennsylvania. It was the sort of place campaign consultants crave, a factory with 35 workers founded in 1981 in a one-car garage with a milling machine and a lathe.…

Los Angeles Times

Biden closely tends his Pennsylvania roots in election year

Pennsylvania has been a central part of Joe Biden's political identity for years

The Independent UK

Restaurant to sue diner who left £2,600 tip on £11 bill - before changing his mind

Mariana Lambert, a waitress at Alfredo's Cafe in Scranton, Pennsylvania, was left stunned on her shift three months ago when she received the £2,628.

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The Independent UK

Trump’s most unhinged speech yet and what we learned in Pennsylvania about the midterms

The Independent’s Eric Garcia headed to Trump’s rally in Wilkes-Barre and to a Democratic event in Scranton. This is what he’s learned.

Tribune News Service

Oz seeks to rally GOP against very online Fetterman campaign

TUNKHANNOCK, Pa. — On the day Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman launched a TikTok account, Republican nominee Mehmet Oz was holding a town hall in a fire station in this small town northwest of Scranton.

Tribune News Service

‘Let us live our life': Why the Kansas abortion amendment failed in some rural counties

SCRANTON, Kan. — Meetings of the local Democratic Party in deeply Republican Osage County, a largely rural area where former President Donald Trump won 71% of the vote in 2020, typically draw about a dozen people.

The Independent UK

Two-year-old child dies after ‘climbing into’ hot car amid heat wave in Kansas

Child was found unresponsive and taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead

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Jonathan Bernstein: Biden stuck up for democracy in Buffalo

President Joe Biden spoke in Buffalo on Tuesday after visiting the families of victims of a racist mass shooting in a supermarket there on Saturday. It was a speech that’s likely to get lost in the current-events shuffle, but it shouldn’t. It was a good one, well written and well…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary will wrap up a chaotic campaign and chart both parties’ paths forward

SCRANTON, Pa. — Pennsylvania voters go to the polls Tuesday after a dramatic and unpredictable primary delivered one more day of twists and questions, with one front-runner hospitalized, a surging candidate facing new questions, and a cliff-hanger finish looming in the Republican Senate race.

Tribune News Service

Analysis: Trump pounces and Scranton Joe shows signs of fight in 2024 preview

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and Democrats have spent weeks stubbing their own toes and Donald Trump has repeatedly pounced — providing the frame for an evolving 2024 presidential campaign.

Roll Call

Trump pounces and Scranton Joe shows signs of fight in 2024 preview

President Biden and Donald Trump already are in the midst of a 2024 rematch as Democrats' stumbles open the door for the former president.

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