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Politics & Policy

Republican canvas observer Ed White, center, and Democratic canvas observer Janne Kelhart, watch as Lehigh County workers count ballots as vote counting in the general election continues, Friday, Nov. 6, 2020, in Allentown, Pa. (Mary Altaffer/AP Photo)
Elections
Pennsylvania

Pa. House Republicans vote for election procedures study

Republicans pushed forward a proposal for a review of election procedures in Pa., although its author insisted he accepts voting results and is not trying to overturn them.

5 years ago

FILE- In a Nov. 7, 2020 file photo, a supporter of President Donald Trump is seen during a rally in Milwaukee after it was announced that the president was defeated by Democrat Joe Biden. President Trump will have to pay $7.9 million if he wants a statewide recount of unofficial results showing him losing to Biden by about 20,500 votes. The Wisconsin Elections Commission released the estimate on Monday, which was based on costs submitted by the 72 counties. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
Elections

Trump pays $3 million for recount of 2 Wisconsin counties

He paid $3 million for a recount of two heavily Democratic WI counties, saying that they were the sight of the “worst irregularities” although no evidence of wrongdoing

5 years ago

Sen. Kim Ward
Elections
Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA

Two women just made history in the Pa. legislature. Will that be the last thing they have in common?

Two women just made history in the Pa. legislature. Will that be the last thing they have in common?

5 years ago

Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt wears a mask while sitting at a table
Elections
Philadelphia

‘An extraordinary election’: Nearly 750K votes later, Philly’s ballot counting is officially over

The unofficial total, which eclipsed the final tally in 2016, was effectively an even split between mail ballots and votes cast at the polls. 

5 years ago

Victim advocate Jennifer Storm, second left, joins survivors of child sexual abuse including Patty Fortney-Julius, third left, and Mary McHale, second right, waiting for a news conference in the Pennsylvania Capitol, in Harrisburg, Pa. (Marc Levy/AP Photo)
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania

Pa. Victim Advocate criticizes Senate ‘no’ vote as ‘political vendetta’

Storm alleges state Senate President Joe Scarnati led a personally-motivated effort to block her from serving another six-year term in the appointed position.

5 years ago

John Jackson, senior research scientist at the Stroud Water Research Center, measure conductivity in the White Clay Creek stream. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Bill in Pa. House would loosen pollution reporting requirements

Dischargers would only have to report spills that may cause a violation of water quality criteria under DEP regulation or that are reportable under federal requirements.

5 years ago

Matt Henrich waits in line to vote in West Philadelphia on Nov. 3. (Layla A. Jones/Billy Penn)
Elections
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Philadelphia turnout for the 2020 election was the highest in 25 years

With counting complete, about 65% of the city’s voters cast a ballot, compared to 59% four years ago.

5 years ago

Election workers scan ballots at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Officials anticipate that the task of scanning mail and absentee ballots will be completed Thursday.
Elections
Pennsylvania

Pa. Supreme Court rules against Trump campaign

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court dealt yet another blow to President Donald Trump’s faltering legal challenges over the 2020 election.

5 years ago

Voters practice social distance while lining up at polling place in Northern Liberties in Philadelphia on Election Day. (Miguel Martinez for WHYY)
Elections
Race & Ethnicity
Spotlight PA

Spanish speakers in Pa. faced confused poll workers, lack of interpreters on Election Day

Latino advocacy groups across Pennsylvania said there were only a handful of incidents in which Spanish-speaking voters had trouble with language assistance.

5 years ago

The Rocky statue is outfitted with a mock surgical face mask
Business
Economy
Income Inequality
National

States plead for more federal help as COVID-19 outbreak worsens

“Every state ... every city is suffering," said one governor. "The federal government is really the only resource that we all have to turn to.”

5 years ago

In this photo taken Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 is Obama 2012 deputy campaign manager Jennifer O'Malley Dillon, at the Chicago headquarters. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Elections

Biden filling top White House team with campaign veterans

Biden is drawing from the senior ranks of his campaign and some of his closest confidants to fill out an increasingly diverse White House leadership team.

5 years ago

Jennifer Storm
Pennsylvania
Social Justice
Spotlight PA

Senate axes second term for Pa.’s victim advocate, who angered GOP leader

The Republican-controlled Pa. Senate on Monday blocked state Victim Advocate Jennifer Storm from serving another six years in the job

5 years ago

President-elect Joe Biden speaks at The Queen theater, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Delaware
Economy
Elections
Public Health

Biden seeks unity to resurrect economy, derides Trump aide’s call to ‘rise up’ against pandemic restrictions

The President-elect met with corporate executives and union leaders and said they must cooperate to resurrect the coronavirus-ravaged economy and create jobs.

5 years ago

Quairah Tucker of Upper Darby, Delaware County, voted by provisional ballot on Nov. 3 -- and then had her ballot challenged by the Trump campaign as it sought to invalidate some ballots in Pennsylvania. The campaign ultimately withdrew its challenge to her ballot. (Emily Previti / WITF)
Elections
Pennsylvania

Trump campaign presses election cases in Pennsylvania as attorneys abandon key claims, courts deny legal challenges that initially targeted millions of votes across several states

"It's kind of game over.”

5 years ago

President-elect Joe Biden speaks Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, at The Queen theater
Government Accountability
International
Public Health

Global Leadership Coalition mulls foreign policy changes under President-elect Biden

President-elect Biden’s plans to rejoin both the WHO and the Paris Climate Agreement were praised Monday afternoon at the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition conference.

5 years ago

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