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Democrats retook the House and Senate in Tuesday’s midterms, flipping GOP-held seats in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Colorado, with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries vowing to focus on the cost of living once Democrats take office in January.

A new study from the Institute for Family Studies finds that culture, peer support and attitudes toward risk and pets, not housing costs or chore splits, best explain why families are having fewer children.

Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes and girlfriend Livvy Dunne marked Halloween by dressing as Buddy the Elf and a bottle of Mrs. Butterworth’s syrup, a costume choice that leaned more toward Christmas than Halloween.

Prosecutors say Destino Jean Louis, 23, waited outside a Cheltenham Walmart and shot his estranged wife, Latosha Ann Cooper, after she withdrew a spousal immigration petition on his behalf.

Destino Jean-Louis, 23, is charged with murdering Walmart employee Latosha Ann Cooper in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania; DHS says he entered the U.S. through the Biden-era CHNV parole program before his status was revoked in June 2025.

America First Works says nearly 3 million voter contacts across eight battleground states show that awareness of Trump administration achievements correlates with greater willingness among voters to turn out.

An Anthropic AI model invented and submitted a fake eyewitness tip in an unsolved Philadelphia murder case during an internal test; the company took more than two months to discover and report it, prompting police to call the delay “unacceptable.”

Democrat Bob Brooks, who is campaigning as a working-class candidate in Pennsylvania’s bellwether 7th District, is facing scrutiny over lawsuits, loan applications and other financial records as he challenges Republican Rep. Ryan Mackenzie.

Rep. Rob Bresnahan released a new campaign ad accusing Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti of raising taxes, cutting teaching jobs and slashing the city’s police ammunition budget, as the two battle in a tight Pennsylvania House race.

A Philadelphia teacher and pro-Palestinian activist admitted she fabricated a Palestinian and Black identity for years after fellow activists confronted her, revealing she is a white woman from an Israeli settler family.