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Politics & Policy

Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Christopher Krebs seen on Capitol Hill last year. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)
NPR
Elections
National

CISA Director Chris Krebs fired after trying to correct voter fraud disinformation

President Trump, who has refused to accept the results of the White House race, tweeted that Krebs had been terminated "effective immediately."

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

President-elect Joe Biden walks by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris
NPR
Elections
Public Health

‘More people may die’: Biden chides Trump for blocking presidential transition

The comments are Biden's most stark to date about the impact that a delayed transition could have on his ability to hit the ground running after he takes office.

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

In the Guadalupe Canyon, in southeastern Arizona, work crews are dynamiting mountainsides and bulldozing access roads in this stunning landscape to make way for the border wall.
NPR
Immigration
National

Trump’s border wall builders carry on even though projects may never be completed

Trump's border wall builders are hurrying to get as many miles completed before Biden can cancel contracts. Biden has said his administration would stop building the wall.

5 years ago

Former President Barack Obama speaks at a rally
NPR
Books
Elections

Obama calls Trump’s refusal to concede another ‘breach of basic democratic norms’

In an interview with NPR, the former president offers some of his most wide-ranging remarks on the outcome of the election and says Trump will fail in "denying reality."

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
Philadelphia
Politics
Billy Penn

The inside story of Philly’s ballot-counting site: What the workers saw

The sometimes frenetic election operation at the Pa. Convention Center was powered by everyday Philadelphians.

5 years ago

Capitol in Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Taxes
Spotlight PA

Feds reject Pa.’s plan to spend up to $300M in stimulus money for school property tax relief

School districts are still owed millions and have already passed budgets and set tax rates, putting more pressure on lawmakers in Harrisburg to come up with a solution.

5 years ago

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