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Georgian activists hold posters as they gather in support of Ukraine in front of the Ukrainian Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia on Sunday, Jan. 23. The British government on Saturday accused Russia of seeking to replace Ukraine's government with a pro-Moscow administration.
Shakh Aivazov/AP
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Government Accountability
International

Who is Yevheniy Murayev, the man the U.K. says Russia wants to install in Ukraine?

The Russian government is rejecting a British report alleging that it has a leader in mind for installation after a potential invasion of Ukraine.

4 years ago

FILE - Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., speaks before President Joe Biden signs the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, on Nov. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Elections
Government
National

Last straw: Fed-up Arizona Democrats censure Sen. Sinema

Sinema is growing increasingly isolated from some of her party’s most influential officials and donors after helping to scuttle voting rights legislation

4 years ago

Zoë Patchell of the Delaware Advocacy Cannabis Network hopes lawmakers ''finally listen to the majority of their constituents.'' (Courtesy of Zoë Patchell)
Delaware
Government
Law

Advocates for recreational marijuana in Delaware ‘optimistic’ this is the year

Gov. Carney opposes legalization but if the bill receives the required three-fifths majority to pass, that would be enough to override a veto.

4 years ago

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to a reporter at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)
Elections
Government
Politics

McConnell responds to uproar over comment about Black voters

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says the criticism he received over a comment made about African American voters is outrageous and offensive.

4 years ago

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

Election experts say Pennsylvania’s voting process is well-protected from ballot tampering

State election law and Dept. of State guidance show ballots are counted and re-counted, a process that's open to a representative for each candidate and party.

4 years ago

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus October 14, 2021 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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Government
Law
National
Public Health

Federal court blocks Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal workers

A federal judge in Texas has blocked President Biden's vaccine mandate for federal workers nationwide. The requirement had been in place since November.

4 years ago

State Rep. Gerald Brady (D-Wilmington) sent a racial slur referring to Chinese women in an email from his official legislative account. (Rep. Brady/Facebook)
Delaware
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Politics
Race & Ethnicity

Delaware State Rep. Gerald Brady will resign after sending racist, sexist email

State Rep. Gerald Brady will step down Feb. 4 more than six months after using anti-Asian language in an email.

4 years ago

Tracy was the first outsider hired to run the Wilmington police force. (City of Wilmington)
Delaware
Policing
Politics

Wilmington council votes ‘no confidence’ in police chief over lack of officer diversity

Wilmington City Council says the city’s police chief hasn’t done enough to improve diversity on the force.

4 years ago

ICE Field Office Director, Enforcement and Removal Operations, David Marin and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Fugitive Operations team arrest a Mexican national at a home in Paramount, California, U.S., March 1, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
NPR
Government
Government Accountability
Immigration

Biden’s limits on ICE offered hope. But immigrant advocates say he’s broken promises

4 years ago

Children draw on top of a canceled check prop
NPR
Income Inequality
Kids

Families are in distress after the first month without the expanded child tax credit

January is the first month since July 2021 that more than 36 million families in the U.S. did not receive money from the expanded child tax credit program.

4 years ago

(Left to right) Camden City Councilmembers Marilyn Torres, Felisha Reyes-Morton, and Shaneka Boucher link arms
Elections
Government
New Jersey

Fighting to be ‘an independent voice’ in Camden politics: Behind the #IMWITHER coalition

The inside story of three women who’ve formed a coalition on Camden City Council to challenge the South Jersey Democratic machine — and what’s at stake for the city.

4 years ago

A closeup of Philadelphia City Hall.
PlanPhilly
Elections
Philadelphia

Philly poised to pass new (very similar) City Council map, amid complaints of opaque process

The plan, introduced Thursday on behalf of Council President Darrell L. Clarke, makes few significant changes to the existing district lines.

4 years ago

Teddy bears are placed outside the North 23rd Street rowhouse
PlanPhilly
Housing
Philadelphia
Public Safety

Philly’s first legislative response to deadly Fairmount fire is a proposed tax credit for landlords

Philadelphia officials have publicly mourned the loss of life but said nothing concrete about changes to fire safety policy before now.

4 years ago

Philadelphia City Councilmember Bobby Henon. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Elections
Government
Government Accountability
Billy Penn

How will Bobby Henon be replaced? There’ll be a special election, and ward leaders get to pick the nominees

The timing is up to Council President Clarke.

4 years ago

2nd amendment protest
Government
Gun Violence
Public Safety

Pennsylvania Senate moves forward a measure targeting local gun laws

Gov. Tom Wolf is expected to veto the bill.

4 years ago

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