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PHILADELPHIA — In early May, Republican Party insiders in Pennsylvania were scrambling behind the scenes to thin the field in the governor’s race and unify around a single candidate — anyone, basically, but Doug Mastriano. Money was transferred. A poll was commissioned.

The key to understanding the upcoming elections, and especially the confounding race for Pennsylvania governor, may be Chris Pratt and his hit streaming series, "The Terminal List." Here's how critic Rebecca Onion, writing for Slate, describes Amazon Prime's top show: "The Terminal List is a classic American fantasy about the…

Republicans are warming up to the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano

PHILADELPHIA — Doug Mastriano is facing blistering criticism from Jewish leaders — Democrats and Republicans — following the disclosure that he’s using Gab, a social-media site favored by extremists and antisemites, to advertise his Republican campaign for governor.

Democrats are once again employing a controversial strategy to boost extremist Republican candidates in primary campaigns. Experts say they’re “playing with fire.”

PHILADELPHIA — Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor, is sounding the “fake news” alarm over a Monday Inquirer article about his disappearing Facebook videos, claiming that they were removed due to a “default Facebook setting” that automatically deleted the videos after 30 days.

PHILADELPHIA — During a visit to Philadelphia on Saturday, Vice President Kamala Harris cast the outcome of Pennsylvania’s November elections as a crucial inflection point that could determine whether the nation’s government heads down a path of restricting or expanding civil rights.

PITTSBURGH — A political committee with connections to the Never Trump movement and to a high-profile neoconservative, will dip into Pennsylvania's gubernatorial race, "playing heavily" — its political director said — to convince college-educated suburban voters to buck Republican Doug Mastriano.

PHILADELPHIA — It’s been billed as a summer “blockbuster,” a hagiographic documentary about State Sen. Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, that is set to premiere Saturday.

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania has joined New York, New Jersey and Connecticut in offering protections for out-of-state women seeking reproductive health services, including abortion, as roughly half of U.S. states ban or work to impose restrictions on abortion.

The Pennsylvania attorney general says that the town of Tioga hired Timothy Loehmann without performing a required background check