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Politics & Policy

Laid out near the U.S. Capitol are 2,280 schoolbooks and broken pencils that represent the 2,280 children that have been killed by gun violence since the Senate has refused to bring a vote on background checks, during a rally in Washington, Friday, June 10, 2022.
Gun Violence
National
Public Safety

Senate bargainers announce outline of gun violence agreement

Senate bargainers have announced a bipartisan framework responding to last month’s mass shootings in New York and Texas.

4 years ago

Gov. Brian Kemp speaks during an election-night watch party Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Atlanta.
NPR
Elections
National
Politics

Republican primaries show that Trump voters don’t always follow his endorsements

Republican voters — even those who maintain Donald Trump was a great president — are not marching in lockstep with him. Many are instead bucking his preferred GOP candidates.

4 years ago

Burlington County's Human Services Building in Westampton, N.J.
Behavioral Health
Government
New Jersey
Public Health

Council to advise Burlington Co. on how to spend J&J settlement

Burlington Co. is set to receive $13.6 million from N.J.’s share of the Johnson & Johnson opioid settlement. An advisory council will tell them how to spend it.

4 years ago

People participate in the second March for Our Lives rally in support of gun control in front of the Washington Monument, Saturday, June 11, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
Gun Violence
National
Protests

‘Enough is enough’: Thousands demand new gun safety laws

Speaker after speaker in Washington called on senators, who are seen as a major impediment to legislation, to act or face being voted out of office.

4 years ago

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, left, speaks during a joint press conference with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 11, 2022. Von der Leyen is making her second visit to Ukraine since Russia invaded its neighbor. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
International
Military

Ukraine: Russia said to be using more deadly weapons in war

A regional governor accused Russia of using incendiary weapons in Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk province.

4 years ago

A closeup of City Hall
PlanPhilly
Employment
Government
Philadelphia

Legislative effort to rehire retired Philly police officers is on ice

Mayor Jim Kenney’s administration could take action on its own, but it’s unclear if or when that might happen.

4 years ago

View of an empty shelf in a grocery store where usually baby formula products are available.
Economy
Government
Kids
Pennsylvania

New baby formula plant gets another $8 million from Pa.

The new funding comes amid a nationwide shortage of infant formula.

4 years ago

Philadelphia City Hall.
Elections
Neighborhoods
Philadelphia
Politics
Billy Penn

In Democratic ward elections full of infighting (and physical fighting!) Philly progressives make key gains

Open or closed? City Dems are battling over who gets to decide endorsements.

4 years ago

President Biden sits in a chair, with the U.S. and Brazilian flags behind him, at the Summit of the Americas.
National
Public Health
Travel

U.S. lifts COVID-19 test requirement for international travel

The Biden administration is lifting its requirement that international air travelers to the U.S. take a COVID-19 test within a day before boarding their flights.

4 years ago

FILE - In this file photo from Wednesday Jan. 6, 2021, Trump supporters beset a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Radio Times

Jan. 6 hearing: what we learned and what it means

What did we learn from last night's Jan. 6 select committee hearing about the efforts to overturn the 2020 election, the attack on the Capitol and who is culpable?

Air Date: June 10, 2022 10:00 am

Listen 49:30
An image of Ivanka Trump is displayed on a screen as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds its first public hearing to reveal the findings of a year-long investigation, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 9, 2022.  (Jabin Botsford//The Washington Post via AP, Pool)
Government Accountability
National

Jan. 6 hearing takeaways: ‘Carnage’ at the Capitol and a case against Trump

Panel members worked to lay out a devastating case as they tried to tell the story of how it happened, and how to prevent it from ever happening again, for history.

4 years ago

Students at Cherry Hill High School East staged a sit-in Monday morning in support of teacher Timothy Locke.
Gun Violence
K-12
Mental Health
New Jersey
Public Safety

N.J. committee approves new school safety, teen mental health measures

The Assembly Education Comm. cleared bipartisan legislation that would require each school district to develop a “behavioral threat assessment team.”

4 years ago

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw (left) briefly joined council member Kenyatta Johnson (center), other lawmakers and activists at a meeting to talk about solutions to gun violence in the city on June 9, 2022. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Government
Gun Violence
Philadelphia

Gun violence activists, city officials brainstorm a way forward on gun violence prevention

In the spirit of collaboration, gun violence activists met with city leaders and law enforcement Thursday to share ideas for confronting the crisis.

4 years ago

Listen 3:40
Martin's potato rolls had become a popular item among chef-driven burger joints. (Danya Henninger / Billy Penn)
Business
Food & Drink
Billy Penn

Shapiro speaks out against boycott of Martin’s ‘damn good’ potato rolls

The Democrat running for Pa. governor noted the bakery provides hundreds of jobs, and its owners have the right to give his opponent money.

4 years ago

Fireworks explode in the background behind a gargoyle atop of the central portico of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Law
Pennsylvania

Amid complaints, Pa. lawmakers move to restrict fireworks

“It sounds like a war zone the week of July 4th,” said the sponsor, state Rep. Frank Farry, R-Bucks.

4 years ago

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