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El-Sayed wins key Michigan Senate primary

DETROIT — Abdul El-Sayed, a former public health official who harnessed Democratic frustration with the party establishment, narrowly defeated Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan’s U.S. Senate primary, setting up a crucial test for progressives in a key battleground state. El-Sayed will face Republican Mike Rogers, a former congressman, in November in a race that will help determine control of the Senate. His first challenge will be unifying Democratic factions after a bitter primary that offered divergent visions for a party desperate for a path back to power. Stevens, who pledged ...

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Nation new york Schwartz confirmed new CDC director NEW YORK — Dr. Erica Schwartz has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The 54-year-old Schwartz becomes the 22nd leader of the Atlanta-based CDC, which is charged with ...

Six-year-old offers lesson on citizenship

Vanessa Zelczak-Waryas probably doesn’t see herself as the future of community leadership. After all, she is just 6 years old. She’s not even in first grade yet. How can you make a difference when you still have a bedtime? But in Ligonier, Vanessa is not just learning a lesson. She’s giving one. The master plan for development of the historic Ligonier Beach recreation area will invest more than $15 million into everything from grading and drainage to parking and trails. It’s a six-phase project that prioritizes different aspects and aims to give new life to a 100-year-old ...

No real crisis claim for climate

Just two years ago, the United Nations secretary general announced, “Global warming has ended ... The era of global boiling has arrived!” “(We were) warned about this,” said a “Daily Show” host, “by every scientist for the last 50 years!” His audience applauded. Wow. Every scientist agreed! But here’s the thing. They didn’t. My new video covers how many of the scaremongers’ claims are just wrong. Yes, the climate is warming. People burning fossil fuels adds to that. But there’s little agreement about apocalyptic claims that environmental groups ...

The DSA has a communist problem

Sometimes a red scare isn’t such a bad thing. Over the last several weeks, President Trump has issued forth with five-alarm-fire warnings about the Democratic Socialists of America really being communists, and his opponents have blasted him for the worst sort of McCarthyism. Trump’s rhetoric has been blunderbuss-like and over the top, but the DSA does have a communist problem. The DSA is a matryoshka doll of subversion — it is attempting to infiltrate and take over the Democratic Party (with some success), while Marxists are infiltrating and taking over the DSA (also with ...

State College man killed in I-99 crash

A 40-year-old State College man was killed in a two-vehicle crash on I-99 in Antis Township shortly after midnight Tuesday. According to state police and the Blair County Coroner’s Office, Joshua Russell Brown was driving a 2020 Toyota Tundra pickup truck north in the left, southbound lane of I-99 near mile marker 42.6. The Toyota crashed head-on into a southbound tractor-trailer about 12:37 a.m. Police said the driver of the tractor-trailer attempted to avoid the crash, but was unable to do so. Brown was killed in the accident, the coroner’s office reported. State police are ...