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Pennsylvanians will head to the polls on April 23 to select their parties’ candidates for state treasurer.

Only registered Democrats and Republicans can cast ballots for candidates during spring elections. The primary winners will face off during November’s election, in which all voters can participate.

The Pennsylvania House speaker said Monday that qualified residents should be able to register to vote at polling places on the day of elections, and that early voting centers should be open for two weeks beforehand.

The Democratic Party race for Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional district between incumbent U.S. Rep. Summer Lee (D-Allegheny) and Edgewood Councilmember Bhavini Patel has hit the airwaves in western Pennsylvania.

According to a new report by the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI), the workers’ compensation industry is more profitable than ever, employer costs are at a 40-year low, but serious questions exist about whether the workers’ compensation system is fulfilling its obligation to those injured or sickened on the job.

The five Democratic candidates for attorney general debated on Tuesday, and if you like a debate with sharp disagreements, it wasn't your night.

All the candidates agreed that adult recreational use of marijuana should be legal, and that more needed to be done to tackle opioid abuse. They each said they would ensure abortion access is protected. They promised to do more to get guns off the streets. And they all agreed with the decision to ban TikTok on government devices.

During the April 23 primary election, Pennsylvania Democrats and Republicans will pick their parties’ candidates for state auditor general, one of the commonwealth’s three elected row officers.

On Wednesdays, the support group meets over Zoom. The members talk about their lives, their religious families and their old parochial schools. But mostly, they are there to talk about the sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of Catholic nuns.

Earlier this year, a group of Republican state lawmakers filed suit in federal court to throw out executive actions aimed at expanding voter registration, claiming the legislature’s constitutional right to determine how presidential elections are run in Pennsylvania had been violated.

Spreadsheets of raw data associated with every ballot cast are not subject to public scrutiny, a Pennsylvania court ruled Monday in a case that began with a request for the “cast vote records” by an election researcher whose work has fueled right-wing attacks on voting procedures.

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan on Monday said that middlemen known as pharmacy benefit managers haven’t cooperated fully in an antitrust probe her agency launched in June 2022. Speaking during a White House roundtable discussing abuses by the industry, Khan made a blunt promise.