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The Keystone State looks headed for another tight race as President Biden and former President Trump are in a dead heat in the latest Fox News survey of Pennsylvania voters, a state Trump won by less than a point in 2016 and Biden reclaimed by just over a point in 2020. The survey of registered voters, released Thursday, finds the …

NORTH WHITEHALL TWP, Pa. – Al Anderson owns the Leather Corner Post. The bar and grill on the edge of Schnecksville has its roots as a former carriage stop in the 1850s. The landmark, so dubbed from a time before street names when the crossroads at which it sits was marked only by a piece of rawhide nailed to a …

Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell admitted that President Biden’s administration has failed to shrink inflation, years after Biden declared it a “top priority.” Powell made the comments during an address at a U.S.-Canada policy forum on Tuesday. He indicated that the Fed is unlikely to shift its interest rates until the inflation rate shrinks further. “More recent data shows solid …

Last week brought bad news for the American people and President Joe Biden. Inflation persists and jobs are decaying. On inflation, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported prices rose 3.5 percent between March 2023 and March 2024. This bad number is far higher than the U.S. Federal Reserve’s goal of 2 percent inflation – and it follows three years …

Former NBC “Today” show host Katie Couric continued to receive backlash Tuesday after a diatribe against the purported ignorance of supporters of former President Trump that one critic compared to Hillary Clinton’s infamous 2016 “deplorables” remarks. Couric told liberal comic Bill Maher on his “Club Random” podcast that “socioeconomic disparities” and “class resentment” along with “anti-intellectualism and -elitism” is driving …

Inflation and crime, more than any others, are the political issues that voters feel in their gut rather than consider in their mind. For President Joe Biden, this is a massive problem because not only are Americans deeply worried about both, they blame the sitting president. According to the Real Clear Politics average of polls, 56% of Americans disapprove of …

After hustling to keep his doors open throughout the pandemic, a Los Angles restaurant owner is speaking out against the state’s newly enacted $20 minimum wage law, fearing it could be the final straw that puts him and his employees out of business. Justin Foronda, the owner of HiFi Kitchen in Filipinotown ,a neighborhood in Los Angeles, has spent the …

Latino Americans overwhelmingly say former President Donald Trump would be better for the economy and immigration than President Biden, according to a Thursday poll from Axios/Ipsos. The poll found that 20% of Latinos think Biden is “good for the U.S. economy,” while 42% of respondents said the same about Trump. When it comes to immigration, 22% said Biden is “good” …

Reality collided with a Democratic congressman’s efforts to defend President Biden’s record on inflation Wednesday morning. South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn spoke to MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” regarding a recent focus group accusing the president of “gaslighting” them on the economy. Though Clyburn acknowledged that people are concerned over inflation, he said inflation rates have largely come down since Biden took …

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman shrugged off the notion that most Americans are actually struggling in what he declared a “good economy” under President Biden, despite what they tell pollsters. “I’m OK, people I know are OK, but somewhere out there it’s terrible,” Krugman wrote Tuesday while blocking replies to his post on X. Krugman shared a link to …