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Map moves, inside sources, Mastriano launches, official semantics, housing crunch, Dimock driller, and Pittsburgh eyed for 2024 RNC. It's Monday.
» FRONT LINES: The unvaccinated make up an estimated 90% of COVID-19 patients in hard-hit Pennsylvania hospitals. The Post-Gazette went inside one such hospital for an up-close look at the unfolding crisis.
» BACKUP PLANS: Pennsylvania is working to add beds and staff in hospitals and nursing homes coping with especially high COVID-19 caseloads, the AP reports. Three federal strike teams are already here.
» SCHOOL SAFETY: The American Federation of Teachers in Pennsylvania wants state officials to push for more COVID-19 safety measures in schools or make the pivot back to online learning, CBS3 reports.
» LEGAL REVIEW: NPR reports the U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to block President Joe Biden's vaccine-or-test requirement for employees of businesses with 100 or more employees. A final ruling is likely this week.
WATER WOES: A Shale gas driller whose flammable water pollution in Dimock became a focus of Josh Fox's award-winning 2010 documentary "Gasland" has waived a hearing on related criminal charges while new complaints continue to be made. The AP reports the criminal case against Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. — now named Coterra — could be headed for trial, though a settlement is reportedly in the works.
FAST WATER: Penn swimmer Lia Thomas, a transgender woman, competed in the final home meet of her college career on Saturday — a career that has become a conservative media fixation as of late, The Inquirer reports. "I just don't engage with [the criticism]," Thomas said.
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MILITIA MEETUP: Two participants at a mysterious 2021 gathering of militia groups in Lancaster County, days before the U.S. Capitol siege, tell LNP the gathering wasn't about the 2020 election or Congress' planned certification of President Joe Biden's victory. But the FBI says a New Jersey 
RIVAL BIDS: State Sen. Doug Mastriano (R., Franklin) — a Trump ally who amplified 2020 conspiracies and worked to overturn the election results — 
WORD JUMBLE: Critics say one of the largest county jails in Pennsylvania is 
EPIC FAIL: A plan that was meant to help 1,000 working-class residents buy a house in rapidly gentrifying parts of Philadelphia ultimately 
WATER WOES: A Shale gas driller whose flammable water pollution in Dimock became a focus of Josh Fox's award-winning 2010 documentary "Gasland" has 