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A person drops off a mail-in ballot at an election ballot return box in Willow Grove, Pa., Monday, Oct. 25, 2021.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Politics

For Pa.’s statewide candidates, 2021 lessons are in the eye of the beholder

Takeaways often had more to do with candidates’ existing campaign strategies, rather than sober analysis of electoral trends.

4 years ago

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., arrives to lead Democrats in advancing President Joe Biden’s $1.85 trillion-and-growing domestic policy package, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. The hard-fought social policy and climate-change legislation will still have to clear the 50-50-Senate, where revisions are likely and Biden has no votes to spare
Government
National
Politics

House Dems delay huge social bill, plan infrastructure vote

The Democrats' long struggle to balance demands from progressives and moderates once again dogged that pillar of President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda.

4 years ago

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

No fraud behind late-night votes in N.J. county

Social media users began incorrectly claiming that real-time election results from news organizations showed proof of election fraud in the state’s most populous county.

4 years ago

Gov. Wolf, Lawmakers Discuss Violence Intervention and Prevention Grant Opportunity for PA Communities.
Government
Pennsylvania

Wolf describes having wife drop off ballot as honest mistake

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf says his mail-in ballot was dropped off by his wife before Tuesday’s election despite a state law requirement that voters deliver them in person.

4 years ago

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell gives the closing keynote at the World Congress of Information Technology in Austin, Texas on Friday, May 5, 2006.(AP Photo/Jack Plunkett)
Government
National

Son and colleagues to eulogize soldier-diplomat Colin Powell

Colin L. Powell, the widely praised soldier-diplomat who died of complications from COVID-19 last month, is being remembered at a funeral service Friday in Washington.

4 years ago

Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, left, New Jersey Governor, Phil Murphy center, and LeRoy Jones, chairman of the state's Democratic committee, right, celebrate at Convention Hall after winning gubernatorial race against Jack Ciattarelli. 
Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021, in Asbury Park, N.J. 
(AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
Radio Times
Elections
Race & Ethnicity

Lessons for the Democrats from the 2021 election

Should Democrats be worried after their significant losses and a narrow victory in Tuesday's election?

Air Date: November 5, 2021 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman stands at a podium
Elections
Pennsylvania

Big Pa. GOP governor’s field could grow with Corman announcement

Corman's entry into the race would swell an already big field of Republicans running for governor, double-digits deep and growing as the party searches for a nominee.

4 years ago

Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli greets a supporter
Elections
New Jersey

Ciattarelli, not conceding, says result will be legal, fair

Ciattarelli, a former Assembly member, said he will wait for the state’s 21 counties to complete counting thousands of mail-in and other ballots.

4 years ago

New Jersey State Senator-elect Edward Durr. (Facebook)
Elections
New Jersey
Politics

Edward Durr, GOP novice who unseated Sweeney, responds to backlash over Islamophobic tweet

After the Islamophobic and xenophobic tweet resurfaced Thursday, Muslim advocacy groups called on Durr to apologize or resign.

4 years ago

Listen 1:01
Former Delaware Governor Ruth Ann Minner (Wikimedia Commons)
Delaware

Former Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner remembered as ‘trailblazer’

Ruth Ann Minner was the first and only woman to serve as Delaware’s governor. She died at the age of 86.

4 years ago

A worker processes mail-in ballots at the Cumberland County Bureau of Elections on Nov. 4, 2020.
Elections

Montgomery County still counting mail ballots, cites delays

The polls have long been closed in Montgomery County, but ballot-counting is still underway for more than 20,000 provisional and mail ballots.

4 years ago

Gov. Carney speaking at a podium.
Delaware
Environment
Sustainability

Delaware governor unveils Climate Action Plan to combat ‘very real threat to our future’

Pointing to increasing temperatures and rising seas, Delaware leaders unveiled a multi-pronged approach to reduce the effects of climate change in the First State.

4 years ago

New Jersey State Senator-elect Edward Durr. (Facebook)
Elections
New Jersey

Spending $153, Edward Durr ousts N.J. Senate leader Sweeney

New Jersey’s longtime state Senate president, Democrat Steve Sweeney, has lost reelection, falling to a Republican newcomer who spent less than $200 on the race.

4 years ago

A man carries goods on his bicycle through floodwaters in China
NPR
Environment
International
Public Safety

The U.N. says climate impacts are getting worse faster than the world is adapting

The report finds some climate impacts are already irreversible and will last for decades to come. It calls for far more money to help countries prepare for the growing risks.

4 years ago

Activists dressed as the Pokemon character Pikachu hold a sign that says,
Energy
Environment
International

U.S., China, and India absent from countries pledging to phase out coal

Existing targets for curbing global warming require countries to stop burning coal, but many major economies including the U.S., China, and India have set no formal dates.

4 years ago

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