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In this Aug. 11, 2019 photo, children of mainly Latino immigrant parents hold signs in support of them and those individuals picked up during an immigration raid at a food processing plant in Canton, Miss., following a Spanish Mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Canton, Miss. Trump administration rules that could deny green cards to immigrants if they use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers or other forms of public assistance are going into effect. (Rogelio V. Solis./AP Photo)
Immigration
National

New rules can deny green cards for immigrants on food stamps

Trump administration rules that could deny green cards to immigrants who use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers or other forms of public assistance are going into effect.

7 years ago

This March 28, 2017, file photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)
National Interest
National
National Interest

The new normal: Trump accuses a predecessor of murder

Granted, conspiracy theorists on the left claim, also without evidence, that it was Trump who got Epstein whacked.

7 years ago

Then-candidate Chrissy Houlahan during a campaign rally in Philadelphia on Sept. 21, 2018. (Matt Rourke/AP)
National
New Jersey
Pennsylvania

Sentries, not ‘squad’: Moderate Dems ones to watch for 2020

This is a story about a different kind of squad.

7 years ago

Elizabeth Warren at a campaign stop at the AMVETS in Chillicothe, Ohio, on May 10. Warren released her plan to combat gun violence on Saturday. (Andrew Spear for NPR)
NPR
Public Safety

Elizabeth Warren’s new plan on guns has a goal: Reduce gun deaths by 80%

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren introduced a sweeping gun control plan Saturday with the goal of reducing gun deaths by 80% through executive action and legislation.

7 years ago

Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden meets with supporters before speaking at the Iowa Democratic Wing Ding at the Surf Ballroom, Friday, Aug. 9, 2019, in Clear Lake, Iowa. (John Locher/AP Photo)
Elections

Biden is the Democrat to beat; rivals see signs of weakness

Biden's rivals remain confident that his fumbles, like the one in Iowa this week, eventually will catch up to him, undermining his electability argument.

7 years ago

The PLCB launched its flexible pricing after the legislature approved it in 2016. (Gerald Herbert/AP Photo)
Food & Drink
International
Pennsylvania

Foreign spirits producers say Pa. liquor pricing violates international law

Pennsylvania's state-run wine and liquor industry may have run afoul of international trade law.

7 years ago

Activists have been calling for the Berks Center to be shut down for years. Tuesday, a county commissioner announced he agrees.   (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Radio Times
Immigration
Pennsylvania

The consequences of US Immigration policies on children

We'll get an update on child separations at the border, discuss the immigrant detention facility right here in Pa., and talk about the psychological consequences these have.

Air Date: August 13, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:01
Walmart has instructed employees to remove marketing material that displays violent imagery and to unplug or turn off video game consoles that show violent games. (AP Photo)
NPR
Business
Public Safety

Walmart bans violent imagery, but not gun sales

Following shootings at two store locations, Walmart said in an internal memo that it would take down all imagery and stop playing videos that depicted violence.

7 years ago

School buses are seen in a file photo.
K-12
Public Safety

After complaints, Pa. senators return to drawing board on part of school safety law

A law to expand schools' security options in Pennsylvania now has some school law enforcement officers miffed.

7 years ago

In December 2018, Katie Brennan, the chief of staff at the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency, raises her hand as she is sworn in to testify before the Select Oversight Committee at the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
New Jersey

Former Murphy aide sues woman who accused him of assault

The countersuit Albert Alvarez filed Thursday says Katie Brennan's claims are false.

7 years ago

Small coffee producer Hector Perez dries coffee beans on his home's roof in San Gaspar Vivar, Guatemala, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Radio Times
Business
Immigration
International

“The migration problem is a coffee problem”

We talk about how low coffee prices are driving Central American farmers to migrate to the U.S. and with La Colombe's Todd Carmichael about the coffee business.

Air Date: August 9, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:03
President Donald Trump tosses a hat during a campaign rally in Montoursville, Pa., Monday, May 20, 2019. (Matt Rourke / The Associated Press)
Elections
Pennsylvania
PA Post

Poll: Half of Pa. voters plan to vote against Trump in 2020

"It's a surprise given the economy. You would expect a sitting president to be in a much better position."

7 years ago

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is resisting calls for the Senate to return from August recess to take up gun reform measures after deadly mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, last weekend.
NPR
National
Public Safety

Senate will discuss gun proposals in September, McConnell says

"What we can't do is fail to pass something," McConnell told WHAS radio in Kentucky, adding, "the urgency of this is not lost on any of us."

7 years ago

Demonstrators and students gather during a rally against gun violence on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Monday, June 11, 2018, in Philadelphia. (Matt Slocum / AP Photo)
Pennsylvania
Public Safety
PA Post

64 percent of Pa. respondents to a new poll support more gun restrictions

The majority of people gave the opinion before mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton.

7 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to local residents during a community event, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, in Burlington, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
National Interest
Elections
National Interest

Hope vs. fear, truth vs. lies: Biden frames the choice in 2020

Joe Biden's speech in Iowa yesterday was an eloquently impassioned shout-out to a benighted nation in dire need of moral ballast.

7 years ago

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