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Month: September 2020

Maine Supreme Court decision allows use of ranked choice voting for 1st time in presidential race after failed GOP bid

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Ranked choice voting will be used for the first time in a presidential race in the U.S. under a ruling Tuesday by the Maine Supreme Court, which concluded that a GOP-led petition drive intended to prevent its use came up short. The Supreme Judicial Court concluded the Maine Republican Party failed

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The European Union is postponing a leaders’ summit because the EU Council president is going into a Covid-19 quarantine

BRUSSELS (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic forced the European Union to postpone a scheduled summit for a week after EU Council President Charles Michel went into quarantine because a close collaborator was diagnosed with COVID-19. Spokesman Barend Leyts said Tuesday that Michel “today learned that a security officer, with whom he was in close contact

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The Supreme Court nomination process, explained

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death leaves the Supreme Court with a vacancy just weeks before the presidential election. Republicans are gearing up to jam through a successor and Democrats are howling about hypocrisy — because after Justice Antonin Scalia died in early 2016, Republicans refused to consider then-President Barack Obama’s nominee, because it was too

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Award offered after kitten found shot

Click here for updates on this story     PITTSTON, PA (WNEP) — Eight-week-old Bean is a stray kitten and a little shy, but with good reason. According to Dr. Inayat Kathio at Pittston Animal Hospital, he’s been through a lot over the last few days. “The injuries were sustained, he’d been shot,” explained Dr. Kathio. “The

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Teen who raised money for cancer dies

Click here for updates on this story     CAMP HILL, PA (WPMT) — Lily Jordan, a Camp Hill teenager who battled cancer since 2015 and raised money for THON in the past, has died. According to multiple reports, Jordan died on September 21 following a long battle against osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. After

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Teen who raised money for cancer dies

    CAMP HILL, PA (WPMT) — Lily Jordan, a Camp Hill teenager who battled cancer since 2015 and raised money for THON in the past, has died. According to multiple reports, Jordan died on September 21 following a long battle against osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. After being diagnosed with cancer in July 2015,

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Kitten found with gunshot wound

Click here for updates on this story     PITTSTON, PA (KPIX) — Eight-week-old Bean is a stray kitten and a little shy, but with good reason. According to Dr. Inayat Kathio at Pittston Animal Hospital, he’s been through a lot over the last few days. “The injuries were sustained, he’d been shot,” explained Dr. Kathio. “The

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