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Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman will receive the highest honor awarded by the top U.S. Jewish university this week, the New York City school confirmed to Fox News Digital on Tuesday. While Yeshiva University celebrates the graduation of more than 1,700 students on Wednesday, the Washington Heights institution will award Fetterman its Presidential Medallion. In a statement, the school called …

A Pennsylvania man arrived at the Pittsburgh airport Friday night after he was released from custody on the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), where he had been detained for having ammunition in his luggage. Bryan Hagerich — a 39-year-old husband, father of two and former professional baseball player — is one of five Americans arrested and detained on the islands …

Dave McCormick, the Republican challenger for Pennsylvania’s coveted U.S. Senate seat, completed a 67-county tour of the Keystone State on Friday. It’s not quite the “full Grassley” of presidential politics, when candidates visit all 99 counties ahead of the Iowa caucuses, but with President Biden and former President Trump in a dead-heat for Pennsylvania and the Senate majority in the …

Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., weighed in on transgender females competing in sports against athletes of the same gender they identify as. Casey wrote a letter in June 2023, which stated that the concerns over biological males’ participation in female sports are “overgeneralized.” He also suggested the concerns on the issue were based on “unfounded assumptions.” “The decision to transition is …

A Pennsylvania father is still demanding answers nearly a week after a special needs student allegedly assaulted his 5-year-old son at an elementary school, leaving his child with a bloody facial gash and missing teeth, his attorney tells Fox News Digital. David Langsam, of Injury Law Partners, is representing Steve Callahan and his family after Callahan blasted the Keystone Elementary …

U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans of Philadelphia said Thursday that he is in a rehabilitation facility recovering from a minor stroke, and plans to return to voting in Washington in about six weeks. Evans, a Democrat serving his fourth term, said he is having difficulty with one of his legs that will impact his walking for some time and expects to …

Top political analysts in Pennsylvania say the state is in the midst of a major demographic and electoral shift, which is likely to prove beneficial for the GOP. According to the latest figures coming out of the commonwealth, Republicans gained more than 10,000 new registrants in the last two months. An analysis of data from the Pennsylvania Department of State …

Dozens of children who were sent to juvenile detention centers and similar facilities in Pennsylvania suffered physical and sexual abuse, including violent rapes, according to four related lawsuits filed Wednesday. The lawsuits describe how 66 people, now adults, say they were victimized by guards, nurses, supervisors and others. Some attacks were reported to other staffers and were ignored or met …

Two people have died and three others have been injured after a disgruntled former employee opened fire Wednesday inside a linen store in Chester, Pennsylvania, officials say. The shooting happened at Delaware County Linen, which describes itself on its website as a family-grown “full service linen company that was founded in 1988,” serving restaurants, country clubs, hotels and other businesses. …

An ailing prison inmate serving a life sentence in Pennsylvania for killing a man during a 1975 robbery won a medical release order from a judge Monday, although the decision came hours after he was put on life support. Ezra Bozeman, 68, won the release from an Allegheny County judge while on a ventilator in an intensive care unit battling …