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Politics & Policy

The U.S. Navy launches the USNS Harvey Milk, a fleet replenishment oiler ship named after the first openly gay elected official, in San Diego, Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021. The Navy ship is the second of six vessels in the Navy's John Lewis-class program, second to the USNS John Lewis. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo)
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Military
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The U.S. Navy has christened a ship named after slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk

4 years ago

A closeup of Jack Ciattarelli
National
New Jersey

After a surge in voter turnout, N.J. Republicans say they’ve ‘just begun’

At a happy hour in Gloucester County, Republicans celebrated what seemed, for some, to be a shift in momentum for New Jersey politics.

4 years ago

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Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, left, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, center, and LeRoy Jones, chairman of the state's Democratic committee, right, celebrate at Convention Hall after Murphy won the gubernatorial race against Jack Ciattarelli, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021, in Asbury Park, N.J. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
Government
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New Jersey
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Democrats facing tough slog in 2022 governor’s races

Republicans are increasingly optimistic about flipping governor’s offices in key battleground states next year.

4 years ago

President Joe Biden smiles as he speaks about the bipartisan infrastructure bill in the State Dinning Room of the White House, Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Government
Infrastructure
National
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Biden’s infrastructure win gives him some momentum. Here’s why he needs that

4 years ago

President Joe Biden speaks about the bipartisan infrastructure bill in the State Dinning Room of the White House, Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Government
Infrastructure
National

Roads, transit, internet: What’s in President Biden’s infrastructure bill?

The House passed the bipartisan plan Friday night and Biden said Saturday he will hold a signing ceremony when lawmakers return from a week’s recess.

4 years ago

President Joe Biden responds to a question about the U.S. border as he speaks in the State Dinning Room of the White House, Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021, in Washington
Government
Immigration
National

Biden: Families of separated children deserve compensation

Raising his voice, Biden said that regardless of the circumstances, people who had their children taken under the Trump administration’s policy should be remunerated.

4 years ago

Transit riders board a SEPTA bus at the 69th Street bus depot in Upper Darby. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Employment
Philadelphia
Transportation

Philadelphia-area transit agency workers ratify 2-year pact

The Transport Workers Union Local 234 said Saturday that workers voted 1,450 to 631 Friday to ratify the contract with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority.

4 years ago

Climate activists hold up banners during a protest organized by the Cop26 Coalition in Glasgow, Scotland, Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021 which is the host city of the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit. The protest was taking place as leaders and activists from around the world were gathering in Scotland's biggest city for the U.N. climate summit, to lay out their vision for addressing the common challenge of global warming
Environment
International
Protests

‘We are watching you’: Marchers outside U.N. climate summit urge faster action

Climate protests were also held in other cities across Europe, including London, Paris, Dublin, Copenhagen, Zurich, and Istanbul.

4 years ago

In this image from House Television, Democrats celebrate on the House floor late Friday, Nov. 5, 2021, in Washington, after the House approved a $1 trillion package of road and other infrastructure projects after Democrats resolved a months-long standoff between progressives and moderates, notching a victory that President Joe Biden and his party had become increasingly anxious to claim
Government
Infrastructure
National

Biden hails infrastructure win as ‘monumental step forward’

The House has approved a $1 trillion package of road and other infrastructure projects after Democrats resolved a months-long standoff between progressives and moderates.

4 years ago

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

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