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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump closed out this year’s presidential race with a fierce battle for Pennsylvania on Monday, making their final pitch to voters across a state that could prove decisive in the campaign for the White House. Harris ended her night in Philadelphia at the art museum steps made famous in the movie “Rocky,” where she said “the momentum is on our side.” She also rallied with supporters in Allentown, Scranton and Pittsburgh, and she swung through Reading to visit a Puerto Rican restaurant and do a little canvassing herself. Trump started the day in North Carolina and finished it in Michigan, but he spoke in Reading and Pittsburgh in between. Read moreHarris and Trump set sights on Pennsylvania in final push before Election Day
Pennsylvanians will head to the polls on Nov. 5 to vote for president, U.S. Senate, and more. Here’s everything they need to know. Read moreWhat time do polls open and close in Pa? All the information you need for Election Day 2024.
Editor’s note: The opinions expressed in this column are the columnist’s own. They are not representative of The Daily Collegian or its board of editors. Read moreDonald Trump's biggest, most recent moments on the campaign trail | Column
HOMER CITY — The borough council Monday agreed to pay an undisclosed sum of cash to Police Chief Anthony Jellison as compensation for hours he spent transporting and caring for a K9 officer that served the borough for 9½ years. Read moreCouncil secretly settles dog money request, bans burning in Homer City
The annual Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program application process began Monday for the 2024-25 season. Read moreLIHEAP season is underway in Pennsylvania
SALTSBURG — At its monthly meeting Monday, Saltsburg Borough Council accepted, with regret, a letter of resignation from its president. Read moreSaltsburg Borough Council bids adieu to president Terry Cumberledge, prepares for 2025 budget
Today is Tuesday, Nov. 5, the 310th day of 2024. There are 56 days left in the year. Today is Election Day in the United States. Read moreToday in history
Indiana Borough Council meets tonight at Indiana Fire Association's downtown station. Read moreCouncil moves its monthly voting meeting to downtown fire station
The renovated building previously housed a Lafayette Ambassador Bank branch. Read more‘Finest flavors’: New Lehigh Valley restaurant blends Chinese, Japanese and Thai dishes
Thousands of challenges have been filed in 14 counties, many by right-wing activists, trying to get ballots disqualified, falsely claiming Pennsylvanians living abroad aren’t eligible. Read moreNew challenges to Pa. voters’ mail ballot applications target overseas voters
Claims about noncitizen voting, slow election results, and more are circulating ahead of Pennsylvania’s Nov. 5 election. Here’s what you need to know. Read moreThe top 5 false or misleading claims being pushed ahead of Pa.’s 2024 election
Trump last spoke at the arena for a rally on October 9th. Read moreSupporters line up hours early for Trump election eve rally in Reading
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The former president is closing out the campaign with a stop in Reading and urging voters to turn out on Election Day. Read moreTrump urges voters to turn out on Election Day during downtown Reading rally
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Stacker found out where people in Gettysburg are looking to buy homes using data from Realtor.com. Read moreWhere people in Gettysburg are looking to buy homes
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Stacker found out where people in East Stroudsburg are looking to buy homes using data from Realtor.com. Read moreWhere people in East Stroudsburg are looking to buy homes
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In a matter of minutes, flash floods caused by heavy downpours in eastern Spain swept away everything in their path. With no time to react, people were trapped for hours in vehicles, homes and businesses. A week after the Oct. 29 deluge, authorities have recovered 217 bodies and continue to search for an unknown number of missing people. The damage recalled the aftermath of a tsunami, with survivors left to pick up the pieces as they mourned their loved ones. Thousands of volunteers, soldiers and police reinforcements are clearing away the thick mud and debris covering houses, streets and roads, all while facing shortages of some basic goods including drinking water and food. Read moreWhat to know about the unprecedented floods that killed more than 200 in Spain
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Palestinian officials say an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza has killed at least 20 people, mostly women and children. Israel is waging a nearly monthlong air and ground operation in what was already the most isolated and heavily destroyed part of the territory. The strike late Monday hit a home where several displaced families were sheltering in the town of Beit Lahiya, near the border with Israel. That's according to the director of the recently raided and barely functioning Kamal Adwan Hospital, which received the casualties. Health oficials say separate strikes elsewhere in Gaza early Tuesday killed another 10 people. Read moreAn Israeli airstrike kills 20 people in northern Gaza, Palestinian officials say
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Israeli strikes early Tuesday have killed 10 people in the Gaza Strip, including four children and two women. In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces also killed two people in an airstrike and a third was shot dead. Health officials said a strike late Monday on the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya killed at least 20 people, including eight women and six children. There has been growing pressure from the United States and others in the international community for a cease-fire in Gaza and Lebanon. More than 43,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the war began. Read moreMiddle East latest: Israeli strikes kill 30 people overnight in Gaza
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A strike by 33,000 Boeing factory workers is coming to an end after more than seven weeks. The aerospace giant's unionized machinists voted on Monday to accept a company contract offer that includes a 38% wage increase over four years. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers says 59% of its members who cast ballots agreed to approve the third Boeing offer put to a vote. The strike started in mid-September and deprived the company of much-needed cash by shutting down production at its factories in the Pacific Northwest. The union says the machinists it represents can return to work as soon as Wednesday. President Joe Biden congratulated the two sides. Read moreBoeing factory strike ends as workers vote to accept contract
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump closed out this year’s presidential race with a fierce battle for Pennsylvania on Monday, making their final pitch to voters across a state that could prove decisive in the campaign for the White House. Harris ended her night in Philadelphia at the art museum steps made famous in the movie “Rocky,” where she said “the momentum is on our side.” She also rallied with supporters in Allentown, Scranton and Pittsburgh, and she swung through Reading to visit a Puerto Rican restaurant and do a little canvassing herself. Trump started the day in North Carolina and finished it in Michigan, but he spoke in Reading and Pittsburgh in between. Read moreHarris and Trump set sights on Pennsylvania in final push before Election Day
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Qatar has opened a snap poll to decide whether to end its limited voting for legislative seats. The measure is likely to pass and end its short-lived experiment in electing members of the country’s advisory Shura Council. The vote marks yet another rollback in the hereditarily ruled Gulf Arab states of halting steps to embrace representational rule following efforts by the United States to push harder for democratic reforms in the Middle East after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Hopes for democracy in the region also rose in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring. Read moreQataris decide whether to end limited voting for legislative seats in shadow of US election
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South Korea’s privacy watchdog has fined Meta 21.6 billion won for illegally collecting Facebook users’ sensitive personal information, including data about their political views and sexual orientation, and sharing it with thousands of advertisers for targeted advertisements. It was the latest in a series of penalties against Meta by South Korean authorities in recent years as they increase their scrutiny of how the company handles private information. South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission concluded that Meta unlawfully collected sensitive information of around 980,000 Facebook users, including their religion, political views and whether they were in same-sex unions, and shared the data with 4,000 advertisers. Read moreSouth Korea fines Meta $15 million for illegally collecting information on Facebook users
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World shares are mixed as investors await the outcome of the U.S. election and other potentially market-rattling events this week. Chinese markets surged on hopes for fresh stimulus for the economy. On Monday, the S&P 500 slipped 0.3%, although most of the stocks within the index rose. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.6%, and the Nasdaq composite dipped 0.3%. Beyond Election Day in the United States on Tuesday, the Federal Reserve will also be meeting on interest rates later this week. Investors also hope the Chinese government may announce stimulus for the world’s second-largest economy. Crude prices rose after oil-producing nations delayed planned increases to their production. Read moreStock market today: World shares are mixed as investors eye the US election
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As millions of Americans gear up to cast ballots in U.S. elections, Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, has people rooting for her from thousands of miles away in a tiny south Indian village. Harris’ maternal grandfather was born in the village of Thulasendrapuram more than 100 years ago. Even though Harris has never visited the village, locals still venerate her family and find her journey a source of inspiration. On Tuesday, they held special prayers for her victory. If Harris becomes the President it would be a first for a South Asian American, a sign of just how far people with Indian roots have come in the U.S. Read moreA tiny village in India where Kamala Harris has ancestral roots is praying for her victory
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Rescue workers are sifting through smoldering debris and thick mud in search of survivors a day after a volcano on Indonesia’s remote island of Flores erupted with fury, killing at least nine people with its searing lava and ash. Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki spewed thick brownish ash as high as 2,000 meters (6,500 feet) into the air, and lava, gravel and ash were thrown up to seven kilometers (4.3 miles) from its crater. The National Disaster Management Agency on Tuesday lowered the known death toll from an earlier report of 10, saying a person trapped under tons of debris in a collapsed house who was feared dead was eventually rescued alive but in critical condition. Read moreIndonesian rescuers dig through volcanic ash after eruption kills 9 and destroys buildings
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Saudi Arabian oil giant Aramco has reported third-quarter profits of $27.5 billion, down about 15% from last year as low oil prices ate into its revenues. Aramco, formally known as the Saudi Arabian Oil Co., had revenues of $111.1 billion over the quarter. That's according to a company filing Tuesday on Riyadh’s Tadawul stock exchange. It made $113 billion the same quarter last year. Profit for the first nine months of 2024 was $83.9 billion, down from $94.5 billion the year before. Oil prices have been depressed in recent days as tensions in the Middle East appear to have receded slightly and as China’s economy has slowed. Benchmark Brent crude traded Tuesday at around $75 a barrel. Read moreSaudi oil giant Aramco posts third-quarter profits of $27.5 billion, down 15% from a year earlier
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Thousands of opposition supporters rallied outside Georgia’s parliament for the second straight Monday to denounce the Oct. 26 election as illegitimate after the ruling party was declared the winner amid allegations of vote-rigging helped by Russia. The protesters demanded a new parliamentary election under international supervision and an investigation of the alleged ballot irregularities. Opposition leaders vowed to boycott sessions of parliament and hold regular protests until their demands are met. The opposition sees the ruling Georgian Dream Party as tilted toward Russia and bent on derailing Georgia's aspirations to join the European Union. The protest proceeded under the watch of riot police, reflecting the simmering political tensions in the South Caucasus country of 3.7 million. Read moreThousands rally again in Georgia to protest the parliamentary election they say was rigged
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The presidential campaign comes down to a final push across a handful of states on the eve of Election Day. Kamala Harris spent all of Monday in Pennsylvania, whose 19 electoral votes offer the largest prize among the states expected to determine the Electoral College outcome. Donald Trump held four rallies in three states, beginning in Raleigh, North Carolina, stopping twice in Pennsylvania with events in Reading and Pittsburgh, then ending in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Read moreThe Latest: All eyes on Pennsylvania as candidates spend final day campaigning there
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Pop superstar Taylor Swift returned to Arrowhead Stadium to see the Kansas City Chiefs and her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Swift just wrapped up the U.S. leg of her record-setting Eras Tour, playing the last of three shows at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday. The rest of her tour heads to Canada with the first of six shows at Rogers Centre in Toronto on Nov. 14 and three shows in December in Vancouver, British Columbia. Swift began her high-profile romance with Kelce last season, when he invited the singer to watch him in a September matchup with the Bears. Read moreTaylor Swift watches Travis Kelce and the Chiefs play Buccaneers after wrapping US leg of Eras Tour
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Britain’s Prince William offered words of encouragement to a group of young environmentalists and later joined a rugby practice at a local school as he opened his visit to South Africa. The Prince of Wales began four days of engagements in Cape Town on Monday. The trip will see his annual Earthshot Prize award $1.2 million in grants to five organizations for innovative environmental ideas. The awards ceremony will take place in a 470-foot-long reusable dome. The 42-year-old heir to the throne will also attend a global wildlife summit, spend time at a sea rescue institute and highlight other environmental issues close to his heart, including the work of conservation rangers. Read morePrince William meets young environmentalists and plays rugby on first day of South Africa visit
