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Down the Shore
Business
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New Jersey

Shore town seeks to end outdoor dining ban

Surf City is the only municipality on Long Beach Island that prohibits outdoor dining. 

6 years ago

President Trump meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday as their second summit begins in Hanoi. (Evan Vucci/AP)
NPR
International

Second Trump-Kim summit kicks off in Hanoi with a handshake

President Trump and Kim Jong Un struck an upbeat note at the launch of their second summit in Hanoi Wednesday.

6 years ago

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, testifies before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, in Washington.
Law
National

Michael Cohen testifies before House Oversight Committee

Michael Cohen suggested that Trump also implicitly told him to lie about a Moscow real estate project.

6 years ago

Philadelphia City Councilwoman Maria Quiñones-Sánchez. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Philadelphia

Maria Quiñones-Sánchez vs. Philadelphia ward leaders … again

Philly City Councilwoman Maria Quiñones-Sánchez again faces a re-election battle without support from Democratic Party leaders.

6 years ago

House Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina speaks accompanied by Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Pennsylvania, left, Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, right, and others about the resolution to block President Donald Trump's emergency border security declaration on Capitol Hill Monday.
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Politics

House OKs Democrats’ bill blocking Trump emergency on wall

Thirteen House Republicans joined all voting Democrats Tuesday to support the resolution. It now moves to the GOP-controlled Senate.

6 years ago

A thermosolar power plant is pictured at Noor II Ouarzazate, Morocco, November 4, 2016. Picture taken November 4, 2016. (Reuters/Youssef Boudlal)
Environment
International
The Conversation

How a Green New Deal could exploit developing countries

Should this legislative concept be transformed from the hypothetical framework into actual policies, some of the solutions it engenders could make global inequality worse.

6 years ago

U.S President Donald Trump arrives at Noi Bai Airport before a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019, in Hanoi. (Kham/Pool photo via AP)
International

One-on-One: Trump, Kim confront North Korea’s nuke plans

There was palpable, carnival-like excitement among many in Hanoi as final preparations were made for Wednesday's summit opening.

6 years ago

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, (center), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is joined at left by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the ranking member, at a hearing on the high price of prescription drugs, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
Business
Medicine
National

Senators chastise drug company executives over high prices

Representatives from AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Merck, Sanofi, and AbbVie, attended during Tuesday's Senate Finance Committee hearing.

6 years ago

Michael Cohen (left), President Trump's former lawyer, arrives to testify before a closed hearing of the Senate intelligence committee, with his lawyer Lanny Davis on Tuesday. (Alex Brandon/AP)
NPR
National

Cohen to detail alleged Trump lawbreaking. White House: He’s a ‘convicted liar’

Cohen is scheduled to testify Wednesday before the House oversight committee in a highly anticipated public hearing that will be broadcast live nationally.

6 years ago

A technician works to prepare voting machines  in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
The Why
Elections
Pennsylvania

Creating a paper trail: Why Pennsylvania is shelling out for new voting machines

The state says there's no evidence its voting machines have ever been hacked. So why is Pa. forcing all 67 counties to buy new ones to the tune of $120 million?

Air Date: February 26, 2019

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PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
PlanPhilly

Omar Woodard challenging City Council President Darrell Clarke

City Council President Darrell Clarke will face a new challenger for his Fifth District seat in North Philadelphia, according to documents filed with the city Board of Ethics.

6 years ago

Credit: Satellite image by Planet Labs taken Feb. 19. (Graphic by Geoffrey Brumfiel and Alyson Hurt/NPR)
NPR
International
Military

On eve of 2nd Trump-Kim summit, is North Korean reactor producing plutonium?

North Korea's main nuclear reactor for making weapons-grade plutonium may be operating, days before this week's summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim.

6 years ago

Physicist William Happer arrives for a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York, NY, USA on January 13, 2017.  (Albin Lohr-Jones/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images
National Interest
Environment

The Trump regime wants to believe the Earth is flat

The Trump regime intends to challenge the scientific consensus that climate change is a dire international emergency.

6 years ago

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign rally for incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018, in Bridgeton, Mo. (Jeff Roberson/AP Photo)
Elections
National

Biden’s 2020 opening? Dem field missing foreign policy hand

Former Vice President Joe Biden is seizing on that opening to position himself as the sole global policy expert in a crowded Democratic field if he decides to run.

6 years ago

Pennsylvania State Police vehicle
Policing

3rd time a charm? Wolf’s police fee plan gets new attention

The latest effort by Gov. Tom Wolf to impose a fee on municipalities that rely on state troopers, instead of a local police force, is generating new conversations.

6 years ago

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