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Politics & Policy

Delaware Gov. John Carney holds a signed copy of legislation mandating an increase in the amount of energy Delaware gets from renewable sources. (State of Delaware screenshot)
Delaware
Energy
Environment

Delaware to boost renewable energy requirements by 2035

Forty percent of Delaware’s energy will come from renewable sources under new legislation signed by Gov. John Carney Wednesday afternoon.

5 years ago

Georgia's Secretary Of State addresses the media
NPR
Elections
National

Georgia district attorney is investigating Trump’s call to overturn election

Prosecutors are investigating whether Trump's phone call to pressure Georgia's secretary of state to overturn the state's election results in Trump's favor broke state law.

5 years ago

Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol
NPR
National
Policing

Capitol riot prompts a reckoning over extremism in the ranks

The deadly riot at the Capitol has forced military leadership to confront the threat of domestic extremism. Rioters that day included current and former service members.

5 years ago

A video screengrab shows Vice President Mike Pence being evacuated as rioters breach the Capitol
Law
National

Police beg for help, senators flee in Trump trial video

Trump is charged with inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection after encouraging a crowd to “fight like hell” over his defeated election.

5 years ago

Pro-Trump protesters gather in front of the U.S. Capitol Building
NPR
National
Politics

Timeline: What Trump told supporters for months before they attacked

In the trial, set to begin on Tuesday, the impeachment managers will seek to prove that his actions directly incited the insurrection.

5 years ago

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo President Donald Trump speaks during a rally protesting the electoral college certification of Joe Biden as President in Washington. Arguments begin Tuesday, Feb. 9, in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump on allegations that he incited the violent mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Radio Times
Government Accountability
Law

Impeachment trial preview

On day one of the second impeachment trial of former President Trump, we discuss the proceedings and the legal arguments on both sides.

Air Date: February 9, 2021 10:00 am

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Acting Sergeant at Arms Timothy Blodgett leads impeachment managers through Statuary Hall to the Senate for the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, in Washington. (Win McNamee/Pool via AP)
Law
National
Politics

Senate agrees to hear Trump case, rejecting GOP arguments

Trump is charged by the House with inciting the violent mob attack on the U.S. Capitol to overturn the election.

5 years ago

Rep. Madeleine Dean (left) and Bruce Castor (Matt Slocum and Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Government Accountability
Law

Trump impeachment trial makes Montco ‘center of the universe’ as Dean battles Castor

Rep. Madeleine Dean, an impeachment manager, is considered a rising Democratic star. Bruce Castor, a former DA and county commissioner, will defend Trump.

5 years ago

Listen 3:10
The number of Wilmington shootings rose in 2019 from a year earlier but were far below the record bloodshed of 2017. (WHYY file)
Delaware
Government Accountability
Gun Violence

Is gun violence a health crisis in Delaware? Republicans say ‘no’

Republican state senators bristle at a resolution calling Delaware’s gun violence a public health crisis. Don’t “pick on” guns, says one GOP lawmaker.

5 years ago

Texas Republican Rep. Ron Wright battled both cancer and COVID-19, and became the first lawmaker to die from the virus on Sunday. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)
NPR
Politics
Public Health

Republican Congressman Ron Wright of Texas dies after COVID-19 hospitalization

Wright, who was serving his second term in the House, marks the first member of Congress to die of the illness.

5 years ago

James Clyburn (D-SC) (L) wears a protective mask while arriving to the U.S. Capitol
NPR
National
Public Health

House Democrats renew investigation into Trump-era COVID-19 response

House Democrats cite fresh evidence of potential political interference by the Trump administration in the government-wide response to the coronavirus pandemic.

5 years ago

Video image taken on June 19, 2020 shows a session of the UN Human Rights Council held in Geneva
NPR
International

Biden orders US to reengage with UN Human Rights Council ‘immediately’

The change is part of the president's plan to reshape U.S. foreign policy to center "on democracy, human rights, and equality," Secretary of State Antony Blinken says.

5 years ago

Frank Dermody speaks at a podium
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA

How some Pa. lawmakers score a ‘golden parachute’ to pad their pensions

Ex-state legislators are frequently on the shortlist to join Pennsylvania’s Gaming Control Board, which boasts an annual salary of $145,000.

5 years ago

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman speaks at a news conference
Elections
Pennsylvania

Pa. Lt. Gov. John Fetterman is officially running for U.S. Senate

The Western Pa. Democrat is the first major candidate to officially launch a campaign for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat in 2022.

5 years ago

Officers at the Cumberland County Prison walk the halls
Criminal Justice
Law
National

Big challenge: Biden is pressed to end federal death penalty

Joe Biden is the first sitting president to openly oppose the death penalty. Here's a look at the steps Biden could take and the challenges he would face.

5 years ago

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