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HARRISBURG - Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania on Thursday used a hearing to ask Gov. Tom Wolf’s top health official whether it was a mistake to order COVID-19 patients to be readmitted to nursing homes, although it is far from clear that the policy led to an outbreak or death.Since Pennsylvania’s first coronavirus spike in cases last spring, Republicans have accused Wolf’s administration of fueling the outbreak in nursing homes by ordering the facilities to readmit residents who had been treated for the virus in a hospital.Despite a high number of nursing home deaths in Pennsylvania, no investigation has thus far pointed to the policy as a cause of death or outbreak.

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Pennsylvania looks to boost electric car sales

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Sen. Toomey, who once unified the GOP, now on the outs over Trump

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Educators urge Gov. Wolf to allow teachers to be vaccinated immediately

HARRISBURG - An unusual coalition of education groups — from superintendents and school boards to teachers unions — asked Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday to prioritize school staff for the COVID-19 vaccine, calling it an "absolutely essential" step toward reopening schools and keeping them open.Teachers and other school staff had been higher up on the vaccine priority list until the Wolf administration, following guidance from the federal government, made people age 65 and older and younger people with serious medical conditions newly eligible for the vaccine.That Jan.

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Pennsylvania task force aims to speedup COVID-19 vaccine distribution

HARRISBURG - The Wolf administration and a bipartisan group of state lawmakers are forming a vaccine task force that will brainstorm ways to get COVID-19 shots into Pennsylvanians’ arms more rapidly.A persistent lack of supply and the state’s laggy distribution system have slowed efforts to vaccinate more than 4 million Pennsylvania residents who are currently eligible for the vaccine.Only about a quarter of those residents — including people age 65 and over and younger people with serious medical conditions — have gotten at least one of the two required doses.The task force will include officials in Gov.

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Small plane lands on Pennsylvania Turnpike

(Courtesy: David Pelto Jr)LANCASTER, Pa. - A small plane landed on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Monday evening, shutting down some traffic and prompting a crash, authorities said.Turnpike Commission spokesperson Carl Defebo told WGAL-TV the plane apparently made an emergency landing and then was struck by a vehicle.Authorities did not immediately disclose any injuries, WGAL-TV reported.The Pennsylvania Turnpike tweeted shortly after 6:30 p.m. that some traffic was blocked between Lebanon-Lancaster Exit #266 and Harrisburg East Exit #247.

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Pennsylvania long-term care homes demand more vaccine doses

HARRISBURG - The long-term care industry is calling on Pennsylvania to devote more of the state’s share of COVID-19 vaccine to nursing homes, personal care homes and assisted living facilities, saying the Wolf administration isn’t moving quickly enough to vaccinate the state’s most vulnerable residents.Appearing at a state Senate hearing Thursday, industry representatives said the Health Department is directing less than 20% of the state’s weekly allotment to facilities that care for older adults, forcing many desperate residents to wait weeks or months for the vaccine.Residents of long-term care facilities — along with health care workers — are supposed to be at the front of the line to get vaccinated, but the state projects it could be

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Pennsylvania lawmakers are pushing to curb governors’ virus powers

HARRISBURG - Irritated by the sweeping use of executive orders during the COVID-19 crisis, state lawmakers around the U.S. are moving to curb the authority of governors and top health officials to impose emergency restrictions such as mask rules and business shutdowns.The push is underway in such states as Arizona, Michigan, Ohio, Maryland, Kentucky, Indiana and Pennsylvania, where legislators are seeking a constitutional amendment to strip the governor of many of his emergency powers.Pennsylvania Republican Sen.

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Gov. Wolf, now a lame duck, wants billions for workforce aid

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Pennsylvania Senate approves $912M pandemic recovery aid bill

(Commonwealth of Pennsylvania) HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania’s state Senate on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation to distribute just over $900 million to aid schools and hospitality-related businesses hit hard by the coronavirus, as well as people struggling to pay rent or utility bills.The bill still requires approval from the state House of Representatives and Gov. Tom Wolf.Most of the $912 million being directed by the bill is from Pennsylvania’s share of federal aid approved by Congress in a coronavirus recovery package it passed last month.MORE: Limits on Gov. Wolf's disaster authority nears statewide voteSome of it, $145 million, is reserve cash from a worker’s compensation fund that Wolf last month had asked lawmakers to send to

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Limits on Gov. Wolf's disaster authority nears statewide vote

HARRISBURG - The Republican-controlled Senate passed a measure Tuesday to take some emergency management power away from Pennsylvania’s governors as lawmakers struck out at Gov. Tom Wolf’s handling of the pandemic response.The Senate voted, 28-20, in a clash that fell largely along partisan lines.

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Gov. Wolf names replacements for departing health secretary

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Unemployment rate in Pennsylvania remains stable as payrolls shrink

HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate remained stable and on par with the national rate in December, although the labor force and payrolls shrank, according to state figures released Friday.Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate was 6.7%, down one-tenth of a percentage point from November’s adjusted rate of 6.8%, the state Department of Labor and Industry said.The rate shot up from 4.7% just before the pandemic hit to 16.1% in April, Pennsylvania’s highest rate in more than four decades of record-keeping.RELATED: Unemployment claims fall to a still-high 900,000The national rate was 6.7% in December.In a survey of households, the labor force — a measure of people working or looking for work — shrank by an estimated 15,000 in December,

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Pennsylvania hospitals: Not enough vaccine doses to go around

HARRISBURG - Some of Pennsylvania’s largest health systems are delivering a reality check after the state greatly expanded eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccine this week, pointing out there’s not nearly enough supply to meet surging demand.Pennsylvania, which surpassed 20,000 deaths attributed to the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday, has expanded initial eligibility for the vaccine to include people age 65 and over as well as younger people with serious health conditions that put them at higher risk.

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Most Pennsylvania GOP supported Trump to the end, and still do

HARRISBURG - With Donald Trump out of the White House, Pennsylvania’s Republican Party shows no sign of walking away from a president who lost control of Congress, carried out an unprecedented campaign to overturn an election and is blamed by some in his party for inciting a violent assault on the country’s democracy.Save for two notable exceptions, Pennsylvania’s top Republican politicians stayed loyal to Trump as he tried to undo his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the battleground state and refused blame for the siege of the U.S.

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AirBnB reviewing reservations made in Harrisburg for Inauguration week amid heightened security

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Pennsylvania house panel to vote GOP-backed plan to elect judges by zone

(Commonwealth of Pennsylvania) HARRISBURG - Proposed changes to the Pennsylvania Constitution to temporarily permit lawsuits over child sexual abuse that occurred many years ago and to elect state appeals court judges by zone rather than statewide will be taken up Wednesday by a state House committee.The Judiciary Committee is expected to vote on whether to allow a two-year "window" during which people could file civil lawsuits outside the statute of limitations that existed at the time they were victimized.Both measures passed both legislative chambers in the 2019-2020 session, so if the full House and the state Senate pass them this year or next they will go on the ballot for voters to consider.MORE: PENNSYLVANIA POLITICSAlso, Republicans

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Pennsylvania GOP house member Mike Reese dies following apparent brain aneurysm

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Pennsylvania Turnpike toll hikes go into effect Sunday

HARRISBURG - Toll increases go into effect on the Pennsylvania Turnpike this weekend, along with a hefty surcharge on drivers who don’t use EZ-Pass, officials are reminding motorists.The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission in July approved a 6% increase to begin Sunday for EZ-Pass users, as well for those without passes in the Toll by Plate program. They also approved a 45% surcharge on people whose tolls are assessed by mail based on their license plates.Under the Toll by Plate option, high-speed cameras capture license plate images as vehicles pass by, and the registered owner then receives an invoice for trips made through the tolling point.

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Pennsylvania will allow indoor dining, gyms to reopen on Monday; restrictions upheld in Philadelphia

HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania will let the ban on indoor dining, gyms, and entertainment venues expire on Monday, Jan. 4, Gov.

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Restaurants lose court bid against Pennsylvania indoor dining ban

HARRISBURG - A federal judge in Pennsylvania has rejected a bid to block one of Gov. Tom Wolf’s latest orders to try to stem the spread of the coronavirus, a three-week shutdown of indoor dining at restaurants through Jan.

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Presidential election hostilities could fuel fight over courts

HARRISBURG - The angst, anger and hostility over Pennsylvania’s presidential election result will flow past New Year’s Day.Republicans who control the state Legislature could use the first weeks of 2021 to fast-track a constitutional amendment that would remake the Democratic-majority state Supreme Court after Republicans and President Donald Trump accused the court of acting illegally or, baselessly, conspiring to steal the election.That prospect is propelling a constellation of liberal groups, good-government groups, labor unions and others to organize against the proposed amendment, and stoking fears of an expensive public campaign fueled by dark money for control of the battleground state’s highest court.FULL COVERAGE: 2020 ELECTIONAs

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Wolf seeks $145M fund shift to help businesses with COVID-19 pandemic

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Wolf receives second negative coronavirus test, will continue to quarantine

HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf on Friday announced a second consecutive negative coronavirus test and indicated that his positive test came towards the end of his infection. Wolf entered isolation on Tuesday after he received a positive PCR test, according to his office.

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Pennsylvania blasts Texas’ bid to overturn Bidens' election win

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Pennsylvania sets daily high with over 12,800 new COVID-19 infections

(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) HARRISBURG - The number of daily coronavirus infections in Pennsylvania reached a staggering new high on Saturday as state health officials announced more than 12,800 new positive test results. Pennsylvania noted that more than 1,000 of the 5,230 people currently in state hospitals with coronavirus are in intensive care. Most of the patients who are gravely ill are over the age of 65, according to health officials.Pennsylvania's death toll grew by 149 on Saturday, which pushed the overall number of virus-attributed fatalities in the state to 11,262.

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Pennsylvania sets daily high with over 11,700 new COVID-19 infections

(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) HARRISBURG - The number of daily coronavirus infections in Pennsylvania reached a staggering new high on Friday as state health officials announced more than 11,700 new positive test results. Pennsylvania noted that more than 1,000 of the 5,071 people currently in state hospitals with coronavirus are in intensive care. Most of the patients who are gravely ill are over the age of 65, according to health officials.Pennsylvania's death toll grew by 169 on Friday, which pushed the overall number of virus-attributed fatalities in the state to 11,113.

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Supreme Court asked again to block Biden win in Pennsylvania

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AP: Pennsylvania lawmaker gets a positive test at Trump meeting

HARRISBURG - A Pennsylvania state senator abruptly left a West Wing meeting with President Donald Trump after being informed he had tested positive for the coronavirus, a person with direct knowledge of the meeting told The Associated Press on Sunday.Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano had gone to the White House last Wednesday with like-minded Republican state lawmakers shortly after a four-hour-plus public meeting that Mastriano helped host in Gettysburg — maskless — to discuss efforts to overturn president-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the state.Trump told Mastriano that White House medical personnel would take care of him, his son and his son’s friend, who were also there for the Oval Office meeting and tested positive.

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejects lawsuit challenging election

WILKES-BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES - 2020/11/03: County employee opens mail-in ballots at the Luzerne County Bureau of Elections. As the polling stations in Pennsylvania state close, the ballots for the 2020 presidential election are being tra HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania’s highest court on Saturday night threw out a lower court’s order preventing the state from certifying dozens of contests on its Nov.

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Federal appeals court rejects Trump appeal over Pennsylvania race

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 26: President Donald Trump speaks in the Diplomatic Room of the White House on Thanksgiving on November 26, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump had earlier made the traditional call to members of the military stationed abroad thro HARRISBURG - A federal appeals court in Philadelphia on Friday rejected President Donald Trump’s latest effort to challenge the election results in a case that could reach the U.S.

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Pennsylvania's coronavirus-related death toll tops 10,000

HARRISBURG - A day before Thanksgiving, Pennsylvania reached a grim milestone that put into focus the ongoing severity of the coronavirus pandemic. State health officials say more than 10,000 Pennsylvanians have now died of COVID-19.The harrowing benchmark was reached after Pennsylvania announced 144 new virus-related fatalities on Wednesday.

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President Trump appeals rejection of effort to block Pennsylvania vote

HARRISBURG - President Donald Trump is appealing a federal judge’s dismissal of his campaign’s effort to block the certification of votes in Pennsylvania.The president and other plaintiffs filed notice of appeal to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Sunday, a day after the judge issued a scathing order shooting down claims of widespread irregularities with mail-in ballots.MORE: Judge throws out Trump bid to stop Pennsylvania vote certificationThe case was always a long shot to stop President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, but given Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes at stake, it was the campaign’s best hope to affect the election results through the courts.

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Judge throws out Trump bid to stop Pennsylvania vote certification

WILKES-BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES - 2020/11/03: County employee opens mail-in ballots at the Luzerne County Bureau of Elections. As the polling stations in Pennsylvania state close, the ballots for the 2020 presidential election are being tra HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania officials can certify election results that currently show Democrat Joe Biden winning the state by more than 80,000 votes, a federal judge ruled Saturday, dealing President Donald Trump’s campaign another blow in its effort to invalidate the election.U.S.

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Pennsylvania House votes to enact fees on electric cars

(Commonwealth of Pennsylvania)HARRISBURG - Motorists who register an electric vehicle in Pennsylvania would have to pay an annual fee, under lame-duck session legislation approved by the state’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Thursday.The bill, backed by a 132-70 vote, goes to the Senate for approval. Most Republicans voted for it, while most Democrats opposed it.The provisions to impose the fee were inserted into an underlying bill just this week.

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Pennsylvania rolls out distribution plan for anticipated COVID-19 vaccine

HARRISBURG - With news of a groundbreaking coronavirus vaccine close to completion, states around the country have started making plans to streamline deployment.In Pennsylvania, a state hit hard by the first wave of the pandemic and currently enduring a treacherous second wave, health officials on Thursday released a comprehensive plan to roll out vaccinations once approved by the FDA.Both Pfizer and Moderna touted highly effective vaccine results this week that reportedly carry an efficacy rate of 90% or higher against the coronavirus.

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Pennsylvania sets daily high in COVID-19 cases with 7,126 new infections

HARRISBURG - Two days after Pennsylvania fortified its mitigation guidelines in response to a sustained surge of new COVID-19 infections, the state set a new daily high in positive test results.State health officials announced 7,126 new cases on Thursday, which pushed Pennsylvania's overall total to 288,978 since the onset of the pandemic. The number of newly announced coronavirus-related deaths jumped by 116 overnight.Pennsylvania continues to see an increase in infections that require hospitalization.

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Pennsylvania sets daily high in COVID-19 cases with 6,339 new infections

HARRISBURG - A day after Pennsylvania fortified its mitigation guidelines in response to a sustained surge of new COVID-19 infections, the state set a new daily high in positive test results.State health officials announced 6,339 new cases on Wednesday, which pushed Pennsylvania's overall total to 281,852 since the onset of the pandemic. The number of newly announced coronavirus-related deaths jumped by 110 overnight.Pennsylvania continues to see an increase of infections that require hospitalization.

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Court blocks small number of ballots in Pennsylvania over invalid ID

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Masters and partners coming to aid of Augusta neighborhood

AUGUSTA, Ga. – The map showed an outlined area not far from Augusta National, only this isn’t another neighborhood the club plans to purchase.

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Pennsylvania vote goes smoothly, but tallying will take time

HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania voters turned out in large numbers Tuesday for an election that produced few of the glitches some had feared, leaving in their wake a mountain of ballots that will have to be counted in the coming days amid intense national scrutiny.The battleground state’s decision to greatly expand mail-in voting for the first time this year means it could be days before it’s clear whether President Donald Trump repeated his crucial Pennsylvania victory from four years ago or whether native son Joe Biden will collect its 20 electoral votes.“What’s most important is that we have accurate results and that every vote is counted, even if that takes a little longer,” Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf said an hour after polls closed.

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Pennsylvania reports 2nd-highest coronavirus total of pandemic

(U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Amouris Coss)HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania is reporting 1,857 new COVID-19 cases, the second-highest daily total since the beginning of pandemic, days after officials said the commonwealth was seeing a “fall resurgence” of the coronavirus.The numbers announced Saturday by the state health department are exceeded only by the 1,989 cases reported April 9 and bring the statewide total to almost 181,000.

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Candidates, surrogates flood battleground Pennsylvania

HARRISBURG - With barely two weeks left before Election Day, the battleground state of Pennsylvania is being flooded with visits by the presidential candidates and their campaign surrogates.Recent polls show President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden in a competitive race in Pennsylvania, or Biden ahead by single-digits in a state Trump won by just over 44,000 votes — less than a percentage point — in 2016.Former President Barack Obama will campaign in Philadelphia on Wednesday, returning to a city that produced historically large margins of victory for him in his 2008 and 2012 campaigns.RELATED: Judge rejects GOP attempt to shut down early voting center in Delaware CountyDoug Emhoff, the husband of Democratic vice

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Judge rejects GOP attempt to shut down early voting center in Delaware County

(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) HARRISBURG - An appellate court judge in Pennsylvania turned down an emergency petition from Republicans seeking to block the Philadelphia suburb of Delaware County from operating a three-day, pop-up early voting center in a predominantly Black area.Commonwealth Court Judge Kevin Brobson, in a decision Friday night, wrote that a county judge had reasonable grounds to reject the emergency petition.With barely two weeks left before Election Day, Pennsylvania is shaping up as a key battleground state in the contest between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.RELATED: Pennsylvania high court to settle voter signatures fightThe voting center began operating Friday in Subaru Park in the

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Pennsylvania sees another big monthly drop in jobless rate

HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania's unemployment rate began to look like the rest of the nation's in September, taking another steep drop from its post-pandemic high as the labor force and payrolls grew, according to state figures released Friday.However, the state still has yet to recover many of the jobs lost to the economic impact of the coronavirus.Pennsylvania's unemployment rate was 8.1% in September, down 2.3 percentage points from August's adjusted rate of 10.4%, the state Department of Labor and Industry said. MORE: Layoffs remain elevated as 898,000 seek unemployment aidThat is below the state's pandemic-driven unemployment high of 16.1% in April, the highest rate in more than four decades of record-keeping.The national rate was 7.9% in

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Talks on critical election legislation in Pennsylvania stall

(Commonwealth of Pennsylvania)HARRISBURG - Closed-door talks on legislation seen as crucial to producing a prompt election result in the presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania appeared stuck Thursday between the Democratic governor and the Legislature’s House Republican majority.In a statement to The Associated Press, Gov.

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Pennsylvania high court to settle voter signatures fight

HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania’s highest court granted a request Wednesday to wade into a fight over whether counties should count mail-in ballots when a voter’s signature doesn’t necessarily match the one on their registration.In its brief order, the state Supreme Court said it will decide the matter after a filings deadline in the case on Friday.In guidance last month to counties, Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, a Democrat, told them that state law does not require or permit them to reject a mail-in ballot solely over a perceived signature inconsistency.MORE: More than 14M Americans have voted early in 2020 presidential election, data showsAfter President Donald Trump’s campaign contested that guidance in a federal court case, Boockvar

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Pennsylvania becomes a battleground over election security

PHILADELPHIA, PA - JUNE 02: Voters cast ballots in primary elections on June 2, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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