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David McCormick (left) and Mehmet Oz, Republican candidates for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania. (Matt Rourke and Seth Wenig/AP Photo)
Elections
Pennsylvania

McCormick concedes to Oz in Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary

Friday's development sets up a general election between Oz, who was endorsed by Trump, and Democrat John Fetterman in what is expected to be one of the nation's premier races

3 years ago

Close-up of John Fetterman
Elections
Pennsylvania
Politics

‘I almost died,’ Fetterman says as Senate campaign heats up

The cardiologist for John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Pa. who is recovering from a stroke, has disclosed that Fetterman also has cardiomyopathy.

3 years ago

A close-up of someone handling a mail-in ballot.
Elections
Pennsylvania
Politics

Pa. GOP loudly opposed counting undated ballots, until now

When Philadelphia’s election board prepared to count ballots last year that were mailed-in without the voter’s handwritten date, Republicans threatened impeachment.

3 years ago

A cyclist is seen at 17th and Washington Avenue in Philadelphia
PlanPhilly
Infrastructure
Philadelphia
Public Safety
Streets & Roads

Philly bike advocates press mayor to move ahead with narrowing Washington Ave.

Bike and pedestrian safety advocates and a state senator urge the city to move ahead with or without buy-in from Councilmember Johnson.

3 years ago

Election workers perform a recount of ballots from the recent primary election at the Montour County administration center in Danville, Pa., Friday, May 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Elections
Government
Pennsylvania

Pa. court orders contested ballots counted in Senate primary

A state court is agreeing in a ballot-counting lawsuit with the campaign of David McCormick

3 years ago

President Joe Biden speaks about the latest round of mass shootings, from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 2, 2022. Biden is attempting to increase pressure on Congress to pass stricter gun limits after such efforts failed following past outbreaks. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Government Accountability
Gun Violence
Public Safety

President Biden appeals for tougher gun laws: ‘How much more carnage?’

Biden is trying to drive up pressure on Congress to pass stricter laws, though such efforts failed in the wake of past violence.

3 years ago

Sen. Doug Mastriano is seen in a crowd
Elections
Pennsylvania

GOP insiders begin to reluctantly support Mastriano, as Democrats tout unity

GOP insider: the tone of the GOP push to elect Mastriano feels like a pep rally before a football game everyone knows the team is doomed to lose.

3 years ago

State Sen. Doug Mastriano appears before supporters
Elections
Pennsylvania

If elected, could Pa. GOP candidate Doug Mastriano make voters re-register?

Mastriano, Pa.'s GOP candidate for governor, is perhaps the state's most prominent peddler of former President Trump's lie that widespread fraud cost him the 2020 election.

3 years ago

A member of the National Rifle Association plugs his ears with his fingers as he walks past protesters during the NRA's annual meeting at the George R. Brown Convention Center
Radio Times
Gun Violence
Public Health

Gun violence and why we can’t agree on policy solutions

America is awash with guns but unable to pass policies that make citizens safer. How are beliefs about guns and the Second Amendment derailing the gun safety conversation?

Air Date: June 2, 2022 12:00 am

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Infant formula is stacked on a table during a baby formula drive to help with the shortage Saturday, May 14, 2022, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Food & Drink
Infrastructure
Kids
Pennsylvania

Wolf invests $1.7 million in Central Pa. baby formula manufacturer

Pennsylvania lawmakers hope to address baby formula shortage with a $1.7 investment in a new manufacturer in Reading, Pa.

3 years ago

Incinerators are one of the uses that would come under enhanced DEP permitting scrutiny. (Massachusetts DEP via Creative Commons CC BY 2.0)
Energy
Environment
New Jersey
Social Justice
NJ Spotlight

N.J. DEP spells out new permitting standards for ‘overburdened communities’

Two years after the governor signed it, specifics are coming into view on how environmental-justice law will be applied.

3 years ago

Activists hung caution tape around City Hall in Philadelphia on March 26, 2021, to bring the crime scenes they witness in their neighborhoods to city officials’ work place. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Gun Violence
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Why Philly can’t make stronger gun laws, and the legal battle to get that changed

Pennsylvania has some laws on the books known as “preemption” statutes, and they stop municipalities from enacting tighter regulations.

3 years ago

FILE - A man walks next to heavily damaged buildings and destroyed cars following Russian attacks in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. The region, along with neighboring Luhansk, is part of the Donbas, where Russian forces have focused their offensive. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
International
Military

Biden says U.S. sending medium-range rocket systems to Ukraine

The rocket systems are part of a new $700 million tranche of security assistance for Ukraine from the U.S.

3 years ago

David McCormick (left) and Mehmet Oz, Republican candidates for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania. (Matt Rourke and Seth Wenig/AP Photo)
Elections
Pennsylvania

As U.S. Supreme Court enters Pa. Senate race, McCormick requests hand recount

The U.S. Supreme Court pauses the count of undated mail-in ballots while the McCormick campaign seeks a hand recount of ballots in some Pa. counties.

3 years ago

Bernadette Witt, left, and JoAnn Bartlett, right, process and double-check mail ballots
Elections
New Jersey

What to know ahead of New Jersey’s 2022 primary election

Voting is officially underway for New Jersey’s 2022 primary election. Here’s what you need to know.

3 years ago

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