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Billy Penn

Got November election questions? Philly lawyers set up a hotline to answer them

Mark your calendar for two nights where you can ask anything you want to know.

6 years ago

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center, walks to her office, Monday, Sept. 14, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Government Accountability
Public Health

Pelosi: House to stay in session until COVID-19 rescue pact

Pelosi told her Democratic colleagues on a morning conference call that “we have to stay here until we have a bill.”

6 years ago

The James R. Browning United States Courthouse
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Immigration
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Court rules government can end humanitarian protections for some 300,000 immigrants

Critics say ending Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan will devastate families and communities, especially during the coronavirus pandemic.

6 years ago

President Donald Trump turns around after talking with law enforcement officials Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020, as he tours an area damaged during demonstrations after a police officer shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis. At left, Attorney General William Barr and acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf talk with police officers. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
International
Public Health

Survey: U.S.’s international reputation takes a virus hit

In some of the 13 countries surveyed, favorable views of the U.S. have fallen to record lows. Pew started polling on the topic nearly two decades ago.

6 years ago

Mail-in ballot
Elections
Pennsylvania

Mailed ballots can’t be discarded over signature, Pa. says

In Pa.'s June 2 primary election alone, when 1.5 million voted by mail, more than 26,000 of ballots were rejected, including for “signature-related errors."

6 years ago

President Trump speaks Monday during a briefing on wildfires in McClellan Park, Calif.
NPR
Environment
National

‘I don’t think science knows’: Visiting fires, Trump denies climate change

Even as more than two dozen wildfires roared across California alone, Trump declined to acknowledge the role climate change likely played in fueling the flames.

6 years ago

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Delaware
Elections

What you need to know about the top races on Primary Day in Delaware

It's Primary Day in Delaware. Republicans and Democrats will head to the polls if they haven't already mailed in their votes.

6 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden departs after voting early in Delaware’s state primary election at the New Castle County Board of Elections office in Wilmington, Del., Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Elections

Biden, flush with cash, boosts ad spending in battlegrounds

The aim is to get out his message of competent leadership, while pinning blame on Trump for a lost year, wracked by disease, unrest and economic hardship.

6 years ago

Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman. (Jose F. Moreno/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania
Politics
Spotlight PA

Top Pa. GOP lawmaker taps politically connected lobbyist to be chief of staff

The lobbyist, recently hired by Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman, worked for the firm that runs the lawmaker’s political campaigns.

6 years ago

Alice and Jeremy Bumpus
NPR
Homelessness
Housing
Income Inequality
National

Despite a new federal ban, many renters are still getting evicted

The CDC ordered a nationwide eviction ban for people who can't pay rent and have no place to go. It's helping some, but many others are getting evicted anyway.

6 years ago

Jessica Scarane
Delaware
Elections
Politics

Scarane burns up the phone lines, hoping to beat Del. veteran Coons

While Coons enjoys national spotlight, Scarane employs grassroots approach.

6 years ago

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The first open meeting of the Philadelphia Board of Elections since June 22 took place in front of four members of the public, in the loading dock of the new voting machine warehouse at 3500 Scotts Lane in East Falls. (YouTube)
Elections
Government Accountability
Philadelphia

Philly election officials said a contract barred them from releasing transcripts. It didn’t.

Philadelphia’s City Commissioners haven’t been releasing transcriptions of their meetings, saying a contract with their stenographer prevents it. Turns out, it doesn’t.

6 years ago

Russian President Vladimir Putin
Elections
National

Whistleblower’s claims on Russian interference fits pattern

Trump’s resistance to embracing the gravity of Russian interference may leave the U.S. vulnerable ahead of an election that officials say is again being targeted by Russia.

6 years ago

Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg
Elections
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania

Pa. lawmakers take record before voters under new election rules

With less than two months to go, homebound voters may soon find candidates at their doorstep.

6 years ago

President Donald Trump
NPR
Elections
National
Technology

Twitter and Facebook flag Trump’s mail-in voting post for platform violations

The post encourages voters to go to their polling place in person to check that their mail-in ballot was counted, which election officials say is unnecessary.

6 years ago

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