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Politics & Policy

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., attends a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on police use of force earlier this week. (Tom Williams/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Elections
Race & Ethnicity

Klobuchar withdraws from VP consideration, says Biden should pick a woman of color

Klobuchar says she called Biden and told him, "I truly believe ... this is a moment to put a woman of color on that ticket."

6 years ago

(Office of Gov. Tom Wolf)
LGBTQ
Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA

Despite landmark ruling, Pa. GOP leaders in no hurry to extend LGBTQ protections under state law

Advocates say action is necessary to close gaps in equality, but a House Republican committee chair said he'll have "to see where this ranks” with other issues.

6 years ago

Protesters hold signs during a May 15, 2020, rally outside the state capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. About 1,000 people showed up to protest Gov. Wolf's coronavirus shutdown order. (Katie Landis/PA Post)
Pennsylvania
Public Health
PA Post

Not every Democrat in Pa. legislature is happy with Gov. Wolf’s handling of coronavirus emergency

"I don't have confidence in his numbers and some of his people."

6 years ago

Former national security adviser John Bolton
NPR
International
National

Trump told China to ‘go ahead’ with prison camps, Bolton alleges in new book

"According to our interpreter, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which he thought was exactly the right thing to do," Bolton writes.

6 years ago

Police and protesters in Philadelphi
Philadelphia
Policing

Philly Council committee advances two pieces of police reform package

The measures come in the wake of nearly three weeks of protests over police brutality, following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

6 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks Wednesday, June 17, 2020, in Darby, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Elections
Public Health

In Pa. speech, Biden casts Trump as checked out of pandemic

In his latest visit to Pennsylvania, Joe Biden said the president has been trying to “ignore” coronavirus away, instead of responding appropriately.

6 years ago

Kara Odom Walker
Delaware
Public Health

Delaware Health Secretary Dr. Kara Odom Walker steps down from post

Just hours after Gov. John Carney said the state’s fight against the coronavirus isn’t over, he announced Health Secretary Dr. Kara Odom Walker will step down.

6 years ago

A person wearing a protective face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus walks past stuttered businesses in Philadelphia, Thursday, May 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Policing
Public Health

Philly councilmembers call for ambassadors, not police, to enforce social distancing

City Councilmember Isaiah Thomas said he hopes the ambassadors will come from the neighborhoods where they would be assigned.

6 years ago

A rendering of the New Jersey Wind Port in Salem County
Energy
Environment
New Jersey
NJ Spotlight

Murphy unveils plan to make N.J. hub of East Coast’s offshore wind industry

The New Jersey Wind Port in Salem County would be the assembly point for massive turbines and other components of offshore wind farms.

6 years ago

(Dan Nott for Spotlight PA)
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Parts of Pa. reopened without robust coronavirus contact tracing to keep residents safe

Health experts say the shortcoming is of critical concern because tracing is most needed as reopening begins, when the disease’s spread becomes more complex.

6 years ago

Philadelphia police protect the entrance to police headquarters on 8th Street as protesters march by on Saturday, May 30, 2020. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Why
Philadelphia
Policing

‘Defund the police’: The view from Philly

Calls to "defund the police" range from major reallocations of resources to abolishing forces entirely. What could that look like? And what do Philadelphians want?

Air Date: June 16, 2020

Listen 21:55
In this photo an intercontinental ballistic missile lifts off from a truck-mounted launcher somewhere in Russia. The Russian military said the Avangard hypersonic weapon entered combat duty. The Kremlin has made modernization of Russia's strategic nuclear forces one of its top priorities. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
Radio Times
Books
International
Military

Nuclear security and Chris Wallace on “Countdown 1945”

As U.S./ Russia nuclear weapons talks begin next week, we look at the state of nuclear proliferation and speak with Fox News' Chris Wallace about his book on the atomic bomb.

Air Date: June 16, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 49:13
President Donald Trump
NPR
National
Policing
Social Justice

Trump signs executive order barring most police use of chokeholds

The order comes as the president faces tremendous pressure to take action following the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police last month.

6 years ago

Former Vice President Joe Biden addresses a Planned Parenthood Action Fund candidate forum in June 2019 in Columbia, S.C. The group declined to back a candidate during the Democratic primaries but announced its support for Biden on Monday.
NPR
Elections
Home & Family

Planned Parenthood backs Biden, seeing a ‘life and death election’ ahead

Planned Parenthood Action Fund is endorsing Joe Biden. The group also says it's spending 50% more this election cycle than four years ago.

6 years ago

Howard University law students, from left, Chanel Sherrod, Domonique Dille and Temitope Aladetimi brought handmade signs to a protest near the White House last Saturday.
NPR
Elections
National
Social Justice

Young activists pour energy into protests, but what about the election?

Research suggests protest energy could boost youth voter turnout: Young people aligned with the Parkland gun control movement were 21% more likely to vote in 2018.

6 years ago

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