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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania courtroom on Wednesday became the latest battleground over claims the 2020 presidential election was rigged, as Republicans around the country pressed ahead with efforts to investigate the voting despite a lack of evidence of widespread fraud.A five-judge panel in Harrisburg heard Democrats' arguments to block a subpoena sought by Senate

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Urban Meyer never fit in the NFL.His mottos. His methods. Even his moods seemed to go against what's considered normal behavior in a league filled with professionals and grown men.

MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — An employee of the Kentucky candle factory where eight workers were killed by a tornado said Tuesday that a supervisor threatened her with written disciplinary action if she went home early because storms were approaching.Haley Conder, who worked at the Mayfield Consumer Products factory on and off for 10 years, also questioned why the company did not

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft has officially “touched” the sun, plunging through the unexplored solar atmosphere known as the corona.Scientists announced the news Tuesday during a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.The Parker Solar Probe actually flew through the corona in April during the spacecraft’s eighth close approach to the sun.

ATLANTA (AP) — An Associated Press review of every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states disputed by former President Donald Trump has found fewer than 475 — a number that would have made no difference in the 2020 presidential election.Democrat Joe Biden won Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and their 79 Electoral College

BERWICK — Police have arrested the mother who said her infant died while left alone in an apartment with a 2-year-old last summer.Angelica Nicole Rivera was taken into custody just hours ago, after police received the pathology report, said Detectives Reagan Rafferty and Greg Martin.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A two-dose Pfizer/BioNTech vaccination provides just 33% protection against infection by the omicron variant of the coronavirus, but 70% protection against hospitalization, according to a large-scale analysis in South Africa released Tuesday.The first large-scale analysis of vaccine effectiveness in the region where the new variant was discovered appears to

MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Workers, volunteers and members of the National Guard fanned out in areas of Kentucky slammed by a series of tornadoes to begin the long process of recovery, including replacing thousands of damaged utility poles, delivering bottles of drinking water and continuing to search for the dead.The tornado outbreak Friday that killed at least 88 people in five

UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — As Miss America turns 100, a major question remains unanswered: Is she still relevant?The glitzy competition was born from a 1921 Atlantic City beauty contest, just a year after women were given the right to vote, and maintains a complicated presence in an American culture that has since undergone multiple waves of feminism.

MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Autumn Kirks said she and her boyfriend, Lannis Ward, had been dating for about a year and were saving money to buy a house.