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Washington — Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania has been hospitalized after a fall near his home, which caused minor injuries to his face, his spokesman said in a statement posted on social media. Fetterman fell to the ground after feeling light-headed, which was due to a ventricular fibrillation flare-up, the statement said. Ventricular fibrillation is a type of irregular heartbeat. Fetterman is remaining at the hospital for observation so doctors can "fine-tune" his medications. "During an early morning walk, Senator Fetterman sustained a fall near his home in Braddock," his spokesperson said. The statement continued: "Out of an abundance of...

Sen. John Fetterman's office said the Pennsylvania Democrat is under "routine observation" in a Pittsburgh hospital after he fell during an early morning walk Thursday near his home in Braddock, Pennsylvania. "It was established he had a ventricular fibrillation flare-up that led to Senator Fetterman feeling light-headed, falling to the ground and hitting his face with minor injuries," a statement from his office said. Fetterman opted to stay in the hospital so doctors can "fine-tune his medication regimen," the statement said.

The state’s core program to close its psychiatric hospitals and shift care to less-restrictive community programs — the centerpiece of its legal obligation to people with severe mental illness — has instead been used for the past decade to do the opposite, a Spotlight PA investigation has found. Created more than 30 years ago, the Community Hospital Integration Project Program, or CHIPP, was designed to get people and dollars out of restrictive and expensive state-run psychiatric hospitals and into more effective, community-based care. The money saved by closing hospital beds would be sent to counties. Former state officials told Spotlight...

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman defended his voting record and addressed the criticism he's received from some in his own party for meeting and sometimes voting with President Trump. "I vote a 91% Democratic line, and if Democrats have a problem with somebody that votes 91% of the same times as you are, more than nine out of 10 times, then maybe our party has a bigger problem," he said in an interview that aired Wednesday on "CBS Mornings." Fetterman voted with Republicans over a dozen times to fund the government and end the government shutdown while most Senate Democrats held...

In a long vote made longer by Texas Senator John Cornyn's absence from D.C. until late Sunday night, a new funding bill has passed the U.S. Senate and heads for the House of Representatives.The deal, which got support from eight Democrats, is part of a package meant to reopen the government, fund SNAP benefits, begin the appropriations process, and even secure a future vote for extending Affordable Care Act subsidies. The text of the bill can be found here.What's in the Deal?In exchange for their support of a bill to re-open the federal government, the seven Democrats were promised a...

A Democrat trans activist has won the mayoral race in Downingtown, PA, a small town of about 9,000 people in Chester County, west of Philadelphia. Deuso defeated Republican Richard Bryant. Erica Deuso, who is openly transgender, had recently suggested armed violence against the federal government after footage came out of illegal immigrants being detained. “Tonight, the numbers are clear,” Deuso stated early Wednesday morning, according to WHYY. “We won. Voters chose hope, decency, and a community where every neighbor matters. I am honored to be elected as Pennsylvania’s first openly transgender mayor. I carry that responsibility with care and with...

Sen. John Fetterman slammed his fellow Democrats Wednesday for prolonging the government shutdown for 36 days — making it the longest in US history — even as millions of Americans lose their food stamp benefits or work without pay in their federal posts due to a “-—-- political game.” Fetterman, one of three Democrat or Dem-leaning senators — along with Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Angus King (I-Maine) — consistently voting with Republicans to end the shutdown, told The Post that the standoff “should have never started.” “People like to celebrate about breaking a new record, but this is a...

Pennsylvania voters on Tuesday opted to retain three Democrat justices on the state Supreme Court, preserving a 5-2 liberal majority that pro-life advocates warn will expand abortion access to any reason throughout all nine months of pregnancy. With more than 54% of the vote tallied, 62.3% voted yes to retain Justice Christine Donohue, 62.5% for Justice Kevin Dougherty and 62.4% for Justice David Wecht. The outcome ensures Democrats maintain control of the court, which pro-life groups had urged voters to reject as a direct threat to unborn children. The Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, in a pre-election alert, called on voters to...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvanians have voted to retain three Democratic state Supreme Court justices, granting them additional terms on the bench after an unusually contentious, multimillion-dollar election. Republicans and their allies had hoped to defeat the justices and put their seats on the 2027 ballot, opening a path to flip the court. The Democratic majority has handed down critical rulings over the past decade, upholding mail voting and throwing out a congressional map that it found unfairly benefited the GOP. Justices Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty, and David Wecht were on the ballot Tuesday. They were first elected in 2015 in a...

It would not be an exaggeration to say we could see abortion for any reason during all nine months of pregnancy in Pennsylvania if the three state Supreme Court Justices up for retention are re-elected. The vote is November 4th. Justices Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty, and David Wecht have been brazen in their promotion of abortion. Their TV ads gleefully proclaim their support for abortion, even though one would expect judges to be fair and impartial. As a result, the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation Political Action Committee is urging “No” votes for the 10-year retention of Justices Donohue, Dougherty, and Wecht....

Rep. Thomas Massie has remarried a little more than a year after his wife of 35 years died. The libertarian (R-Ky), who has been blasted as a “loser” by President Trump, confirmed Monday that he wed former Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky) staffer Carolyn Grace Moffa — and “of course” raw milk was served at the wedding, he said. Paul and GOP reps. Jim Jordan, Warren Davidson, Marjorie Taylor Green and Victoria Spartz all attended the Oct. 19 ceremony in Pennsylvania, where his new wife is from, he said. Massie’s late wife and mother of his four children, Rhonda Massie, died...

Voters on Tuesday will choose either Democrat Corey O’Connor, the Allegheny County controller, or Republican Tony Moreno, a former Pittsburgh police officer, as Pittsburgh’s next mayor. O’Connor, 41, of Point Breeze, is a former city councilman and son of the late Mayor Bob O’Connor. He defeated incumbent Mayor Ed Gainey for the Democratic nomination in the May primary. Moreno, 57, of Brighton Heights, spent 24 years on the Pittsburgh police force. He came in third in the 2021 Democratic mayoral primary — behind Gainey and then-Mayor Bill Peduto — before running as a Republican in the general election, again losing...

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman noted Saturday night on Fox News Channel’s “My View with Lara Trump,” hosted by the president’s daughter-in-law, that he’ll “get grief” for sitting down with her. Still, he said, having conversations is “really important.” “We can’t ever collectively turn our back to others and people are increasingly forgetting to remember that we really need each other,” Fetterman said. Both Democrats and Republicans are feeling the effects of a federal government shutdown. Fetterman was one of three Democrats to side with a Republican bill that would’ve paid certain federal workers during the shutdown. “I’ve been really consistent...

A 13-year-old girl from East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, who went missing in October, has been recovered after being found hidden in a box covered by a sheet in the basement of a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, home. The teen was last seen at the Greyhound bus station in Baton Rouge after traveling from Columbus, Georgia. Authorities traced her through online activity, discovering she had been in contact with 26-year-old Ki-Shawn Crumity via Snapchat. Crumity allegedly lured her by promising to help her get adopted by a trusted adult. The girl was transported from Baton Rouge to Georgia by 62-year-old Ronald Smith...

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said Democrats need to “own” the government shutdown as the impasse has now stretched over a month. Fetterman, one of the few in his party who has broken with Democrats and voted to reopen the government, was asked about the shutdown during a Sunday morning appearance on CNN’s State of the Union. He said it is “deeply distressing” that 42 million people are losing food stamp benefits. “And now that’s one of the big reasons why I refuse to shutting our government down,” he said. “And again, I feel like the Democrats really need to own...

A Pennsylvania diocese has apologized for a shocking grade school Halloween parade float that displayed a replica of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp gate. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg formally apologized Friday for the offensive float’s appearance during Thursday evening’s Halloween parade. Bishop Timothy Senior said he was “shocked and appalled to learn” the float entered by the St. Joseph Catholic School in Hanover, which resembled the Auschwitz Concentration Camp gate, included the words “Arbeit Macht Frei.” The German phrase — translating to “Work Makes You Free” — was prominently displayed at World War II-era concentration camps across Europe, including...

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has signed a disaster declaration over SNAP funding, which is in danger of being cut off on Saturday due to the federal government shutdown. What the declaration does The declaration makes $5 million in state money immediately available to food banks. Shapiro made the announcement at a Friday afternoon news conference in Philadelphia. You can watch his complete remarks in the video player above. "Nearly two million Pennsylvanians rely on SNAP every month — and they shouldn’t have to wonder where their next meal will come from because of the dysfunction in Washington," Shapiro...

A mass email sent Friday to the University of Pennsylvania community called the Ivy League school an “elitist institution” with terrible security practices, according to a copy of the email shared with PennLive. The email, sent on Penn Graduate School of Education (GSE) letterhead, also included expletives and a slur, and said UPenn “love[s] breaking federal laws.” “We hire and admit morons because we love legacies, donors, and unqualified affirmative action admits,” the email reads in part.

HARRISBURG — How much are state and national groups spending to flood the airwaves, fill mailboxes, and buy up digital ads ahead of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court retention elections? That’s a harder question to answer than you might think, thanks to a mix of lagging reporting, weakly enforced rules, and a campaign finance system that requires little transparency. Many groups are trying to sway voters through independent expenditures — money spent without coordinating with the candidates’ campaigns. These expenditures are often made by groups that can’t legally give to candidates, including dark money nonprofits that don’t have to disclose their...

A set of extreme abortion bills in Pennsylvania could make the Keystone State one of the most radical pro-abortion states in the country if legislators carry them through both chambers. The Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee voted October 22 to advance seven bills that protect, grow, and subsidize the abortion industry. The bills passed in a 14 to 12 vote, with all Democrats in favor and all Republicans against and all seven aim to thwart anyone who would disrupt the pro-abortion agenda. All 14 Democrat legislators on the Judiciary Committee are endorsed by and have received funds from Planned Parenthood's Political...