As America prepares to celebrate 250 years of independence this week, several communities in central Pennsylvania are hosting festivals, parades and more. WITF’s Haley O’Brien has details on where to see fireworks in Central Pennsylvania this Fourth of July.

An ICE detainee says he was put in solitary confinement and transferred out of state in retaliation for speaking out about conditions. 

WITF’s Jordan Wilkie reports the alleged retaliation came after a protest at Pennsylvania’s Moshannon Valley Processing Center, ICE’s largest immigrant detention facility in the northeast United States. 

Every election day, with millions of votes cast and thousands of volunteers running polling places across Pennsylvania, some mistakes — usually small — are bound to happen. 

WITF’s Jordan Wilkie talks with Carter Walker, Votebeat’s Pennsylvania elections reporter, about what happens when problems do occur. 

Democrats are trying to find a candidate who can beat incumbent Republican Scott Perry in Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional race. 

WITF’s Jordan Wilkie reports on the race between centrist Janelle Stelson and progressive Justin Douglas.

A federal judge is siding with Pennsylvania over an out-of-state advocacy group in a lawsuit about voter data. 

WITF’s Jordan Wilkie reports the judge upheld Pennsylvania’s ban on publishing voter rolls online.

Leaders in the Bhutanese refugee community in Pennsylvania say two fellow refugees are detained and facing deportation. It’s the latest in a series of cases where President Donald Trump’s administration is deporting the refugees back to a country that simply kicks them out again. 

The continued detention of an asylum-seeker arrested in Central Pennsylvania highlights many of the Trump administration’s changes to immigration policy. 

WITF’s Jordan Wilkie reports.

Several states — including Pennsylvania — are in federal court over the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s latest executive order to rework elections. 

Trump explained the order by repeating his often-discredited claim that non-citizens are voting en masse and in favor of his political opponents. 

WITF’s Jordan Wilkie speaks with Carter Walker, reporter for Votebeat, about his story of how non-citizens were registering to vote in Pennsylvania, and how current Secretary of State Al Schmidt led the charge to fix the problem.

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A deep-dive into Pennsylvania’s automatic voter registration program, started under Governor Josh Shapiro in 2023, shows it’s working to get more people to vote from all parties and parts of the state. 

WITF’s Jordan Wilkie talks with Votebeat reporter Carter Walker who analyzed the data.

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Well over a thousand people protesting Donald Trump’s presidency rallied on Harrisburg’s Capitol steps Saturday.

WITF's Jordan Wilkie reports protesters used chants, speeches and homemade signs to make it clear they oppose President Trump’s immigration crackdown supported by Republicans like local Congressman Scott Perry.

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