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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro casts their votes for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris during the Democratic National Convention Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says Democrats are ‘the party of real freedom’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks during a campaign event for Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris in Ambler, Pa., Monday, July 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Political media covers up accusations Harris rejected Jew as VP

By Charles Hurt - The Washington Times

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, center, talking to a group of young girls after disembarking from Air Force Two at Chippewa Valley Regional Airport, Wednesday, August 7, 2024, in Eau Claire, WI. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

Campaigning hard in the Midwest, Harris and Vance cross paths on airport tarmac

By Darlene Superville and Joey Cappelletti and Meg Kinnard - Associated Press

$FILE - Work continues at a shale gas well drilling site in St. Mary's, Pa., March 12, 2020. Facing the need to win Pennsylvania, Vice President Kamala Harris has sworn off any prior assertion that she opposed fracking. But that hasn't stopped Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump from wielding her now-abandoned position as to win over working-class voters in the key battleground state where the industry means jobs. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)$

Harris once wanted to ban fracking. Trump wants voters in energy-rich Pennsylvania to remember

By Marc Levy - Associated Press

Vice President Kamala Harris waves during a campaign rally, July 30, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Some activists step up criticism of Shapiro and Kelly as Harris closes in on naming a running mate

By Will Weissert - Associated Press

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks during a news conference overlooking the Susquehanna River from a balcony at the offices of the Susquehanna River Basin Commission, Tuesday, July 9, 2024, in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)

Pennsylvania Democrat accuses VP hopeful Shapiro of ignoring sexual harassment

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 13, 2016, file photo, President Barack Obama listens as Vice President Joe Biden speaks in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. Biden is getting some help from Obama as he looks to fill his campaign coffers and unify the Democratic party ahead of the November election. Obama and Biden will appear together Tuesday, June 23, for a “virtual grassroots fundraiser,” the former vice president announced on Twitter. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Biden’s campaign on the brink as Obama raises doubts amid more sinking polls

By Alex Miller, Lindsey McPherson and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a post debate campaign rally, Friday, June 28, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ronda Churchill)

Harris trails four other Democrats who perform better than Biden in swing states vs. Trump

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro arrives in Blue Bell, Pa., Friday, Jan. 5, 2024. Shapiro, a Democrat, is a prolific Tik Tok poster, with his efforts beginning on the campaign trail through a personal account. The first-termer is a rising star in the Democratic Party and among a handful of governors who are building their national profiles and possibly positioning themselves for a 2028 run for the White House. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Some states are seeking to restrict TikTok. That doesn’t mean their governors aren’t using it

By Brooke Schultz - Associated Press

FILE - Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro arrives before President Joe Biden speaks in Blue Bell, Pa., Friday, Jan. 5, 2024. Shapiro's administration says he plans next month to propose steps toward fixing a state higher education system that's among the worst in the nation in affordability. The administration didn’t release many specifics Friday, Jan. 26, and says the Democratic governor will give more details in his Feb. 6 budget address. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Governor drafting plan to help Pennsylvania higher ed system that’s among the worst in affordability

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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks with members of the media during a news conference in Yardley, Pa., Monday, Dec. 4, 2023. A protest in Philadelphia calling for the end of the siege in Gaza drew criticism from Shapiro as being a “blatant act of antisemitism” after protesters gathered at a Jewish restaurant. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Governor rebukes Philadelphia protesters for chanting outside Israeli restaurant

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In this Oct. 29, 2008, file photo, a drilling rig used to extract natural gas from the Marcellus Shale, located on a hill above a pond on John Dunn's farm in the Washington County borough of Houston, Pa. The state of Pennsylvania will work with a major natural gas producer to collect in-depth data on air emissions and water quality at well sites, enhance public disclosure of drilling chemicals and expand buffer zones, officials announced Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023, touting the collaboration as the first of its kind. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Pennsylvania partners with natural gas driller on air and water monitoring amid new regulatory push

By Michael Rubinkam - Associated Press

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro speaks at the United Neighborhood Centers of Northeastern Pennsylvania Oppenheim Healthy Aging Campus in Scranton, Pa., on Thursday, May 25, 2023. Gov. Shapiro has signed legislation eliminating America's last ban on public school teachers wearing religious garb, ending a 128-year-old prohibition. (Christopher Dolan/The Times-Tribune via AP, File)

Pennsylvania governor’s office settles for $295K a former staffer’s claim senior aide harassed her

By Brooke Schultz - Associated Press

FILE - The Pennsylvania Capitol stands in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021. Four of Pennsylvania’s universities are plugging budget gaps while they await hundreds of millions of dollars in aid that has been snarled in a partisan dispute among lawmakers in a state that has one of the nation’s most abysmal records for funding higher education. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Pennsylvania universities are still waiting for state subsidies. It won’t make them more affordable

By Brooke Schultz - Associated Press

Pennsylvania's Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks at the state Capitol, Jan. 17, 2023, in Harrisburg, Pa. Shapiro — a first-term Democrat seen by his party as a rising star nationally — gave his backing to a Republican-backed school voucher proposal over the summer. School choice advocates say that makes Shapiro unique among Democratic governors and could mark an evolution in traditional alliances on school choice politics. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Pa.’s Democratic Gov. Shapiro, a rising political star, crosses partisan school choice divide

By Marc Levy - Associated Press

Chester County, Pa. election workers process mail-in and absentee ballots at West Chester University in West Chester on Nov. 4, 2020. Donald Trump has a familiar target in his sights: Pennsylvania’s voting rules. He never stopped attacking mail-in ballot changes made through the courts during the pandemic, falsely claiming it as a reason for his 2020 defeat in the crucial battleground state. Now the former president is seizing on a decision by Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro to bypass the Legislature and start automatic voter registration. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Pennsylvania governor’s voter registration change draws Trump’s ire in echo of 2020 election clashes

By Marc Levy - Associated Press

FILE - Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks at the Finishing Trades Institute on March 9, 2023, in Philadelphia. After nearly 30 years, Shapiro plans to end a contract with an anti-abortion counseling organization that paved the way for others like it nationally, as similar centers gain increased attention since the overturning of Roe v. Wade (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

After nearly 30 years, Pennsylvania will end state funding for anti-abortion counseling centers

By Brooke Schultz and Kimberlee Kruesi - Associated Press

FILE - Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Jan. 17, 2023. Pennsylvania will direct up to $400 million in federal money to reimburse organizations that train new infrastructure workers on the job, through an executive order signed by Gov. Shapiro on Monday, July 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)

Pennsylvania governor says millions will go to help train workers for infrastructure projects

Associated Press

FILE - Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks during a news conference following the collapse of an elevated section of Interstate 95 after a tanker truck caught fire, June 11, 2023, in Philadelphia. Shapiro is trying to wrap up his first budget by the start of the new fiscal year on Saturday, July 1, as the Democrat works to balance Pennsylvania's politically divided Legislature in perhaps his biggest test yet of his political skills under the Capitol dome. (AP Photo/Joe Lamberti, File)

Pennsylvania governor calls on divided Legislature to finalize budget past deadline

By Brooke Schultz - Associated Press

Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives attend a session at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, June 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Pennsylvania to begin new fiscal year without budget plan in place

By Marc Levy - Associated Press