Former local news anchor Janelle Stelson has won the Democratic primary to take on Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) this November, according to Decision Desk HQ.  Stelson, once a news anchor for WGAL-TV 8, defeated five other Democratic challengers in the crowded field to take on Perry in Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional District. She was previously a Republican, according to Pennsylvania Capital-Star, and currently lives outside of the district, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. Among those who endorsed Stelson’s bid are the campaign arm of the center-left New Democrat Coalition, EMILY’s ..read more

President Biden won the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ.  The incumbent has already crossed the delegate threshold he needs to score his party nod, but the win in the Keystone State could add as many as 159 delegates into his column, according to a tracker from Decision Desk HQ/The Hill.   Biden has eclipsed his longshot Democratic challengers, but the incumbent faced a protest vote as some Democrats express frustration with the administration over Biden's handling of the Israel-Hamas war.  After the success of s ..read more

Former President Trump has won the GOP primary in Pennsylvania, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ.  Trump has already hit the delegates he needs to secure the Republican nomination for 2024, and there are another 67 delegates up for grabs in the Keystone State's Tuesday night contest, according to a tracker from Decision Desk HQ/The Hill.  Across the aisle, President Biden is set to pick up another win in Pennsylvania's Democratic primary. Neither presidential contender was expected to see major challengers, but Biden is likely to see a protest vote as so ..read more

WASHINGTON (AP) — Children fatally shot in their classrooms. Law enforcement gunned down while doing their jobs. Victims of domestic violence. And people killed on American streets. Photos of their faces line the wall as part of a new exhibit inside the federal agency in Washington that's responsible for enforcing the nation’s gun laws. It's meant to serve as a powerful reminder to law enforcement of the human toll of gun violence they are working to prevent. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday told relatives of those killed and survivors that America’s gun violence problem can sometim ..read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking aim at Alabama and other states considering abortion travel bans in a new ad campaign. The governor shared the ad in a post on X, formerly Twitter. Alabama’s abortion ban has no exceptions for rape or incest. Now, Republicans are trying to criminalize young women’s travel to receive abortion care. We cannot let them get away with this. pic.twitter.com/gHbYJYlEXk — Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) April 21, 2024 The 30-second commercial shows two young women driving in a car while passing a sign that reads "State Line 1 Mile ..read more

Prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney's office say former President Trump has violated a gag order 10 times since it was imposed April 1. The order bars him from attacking witnesses, prosecutors, court staff and the judge's family in his hush money case, in which he stands accused of paying off a porn actor ahead of the 2016 election to prevent the public from learning of an alleged affair, then writing down the payment as a legal expense. During a hearing on Tuesday, prosecutors asked the court to order Trump to take down 10 posts — eight from his social media account and two from ..read more

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former presidential candidate Dean Phillips will receive at least three of Ohio's delegates to the Democratic National Convention even though he has dropped out of the race and endorsed President Joe Biden. But they're likely to be Phillips delegates in name only. The president locked up the Democratic nomination on March 12 and so far has won 99% of convention delegates, a sign that even some of the more organized efforts to oppose him haven't gained traction with the party's voters. Party rules also make it nearly impossible at this point in the presidential primary process ..read more

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Supporters of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota are cheering new federal legislation to help build the library and to showcase artifacts of the 26th president, who as a young man hunted and ranched in the state during its territorial days. Last week, North Dakota's three-member, all-Republican congressional delegation announced the bill to “authorize funding for the Library’s continued construction and go towards ensuring the preservation of President Roosevelt’s history and legacy.” The bill's Interior Department grant is for $50 million of one ..read more

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who became a fugitive after a federal jury convicted him of assaulting police officers during the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced on Tuesday to six years in prison. David Joseph Gietzen, 31, of Sanford, North Carolina, struck a police officer with a pole during a mob's Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Gietzen told U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols that he didn't intend to hurt anybody that day. But he didn't express any regret or remorse for his actions on Jan. 6, when he joined a mob of Donald Trump supporters in interrupting the joint session of Congress for certif ..read more

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) blasted conservative commentator Tucker Carlson on Tuesday for playing a leading role in demonizing the idea of sending military aid to Ukraine, saying the former Fox News host wound up “where he should have been all along” when he gave Russian President Vladimir Putin a megaphone during a fawning interview earlier this year. “I think the demonization of Ukraine began by Tucker Carlson, who in my opinion ended up where he should have been all along, which was interviewing Vladimir Putin,” McConnell said, referring to Carlson’s two-hour interview w ..read more