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Politics & Policy

An Atlantic City Rail Line train to 30th Street Station in Philadelphia arrives in Lindenwold, N.J. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
New Jersey
Transportation

Despite finishing PTC work, NJ Transit hasn’t said when Atlantic City trains will resume

PTC work on AC line done, NJ Transit still hasn't decided when trains will resume

7 years ago

Jodi Risper, regional director and organizer with NextGen, asks students at Temple University to fill out a survey in exchange for free Ben & Jerry's ice cream while encouraging them to register to vote. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Elections
Philadelphia

Youth vote still surging in Philadelphia

Young Philadelphia voters came out big for the fourth straight election.

7 years ago

Residents take photos and try to touch one of the three Balangiga church bells after a ceremony returning them to the church in the town of Balangiga in the Philippines on Dec. 15, 2018. (Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
History
International

Philippines Duterte praises ‘generous’ Americans for returning church bells

Both are enthralled that church bells seized by the U.S. have been returned to the Philippines after 117 years.

7 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks to media as he visits Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. on Dec. 15, during Wreaths Across America Day. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)
National

Investigations look at Trump’s life from all angles

Investigations now entangle Donald Trump's White House, campaign, transition, inauguration, charity and business.

7 years ago

Protesters picket outside the N.J. State House in Trenton minutes before legislators hold public hearings on a controversial redistricting plan. (Joe Hernandez/WHYY)
New Jersey
Politics

N.J. Democratic leaders pull controversial redistricting plan ahead of vote

Critics said the bill would amount to little more than nonpartisan gerrymandering, diminishing the power of voters.

7 years ago

Tuna, seen on display last year at a fish market in Mexico City. The World Trade Organization dealt Mexico a defeat on appeal Friday, dismissing the country's argument that labeling regulations in the U.S. violated WTO rules.
(Henry Romero/Reuters)
NPR
Environment
International

U.S. gets a big win in its long fight with Mexico over ‘dolphin safe’ labels

Authorities north of the border reject Mexican tuna products because they generally reject Mexican fishing techniques in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

7 years ago

A massive fire roars through a neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif., after a PG&E gas pipeline ruptured, killing eight people, in 2010. (Paul Sakuma/AP)
NPR
Energy
Environment
National

PG&E falsified gas pipeline safety records, regulators say

The investigation followed the gas pipeline explosion in 2010 that incinerated a neighborhood in San Bruno, just south of San Francisco.

7 years ago

A U.S. Marine salutes as participants in the Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally rumble through Washington, D.C., in 2017. Organizers say the 2019 event will be the last in D.C. (AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Military
National

After decades, ‘Rolling Thunder’ to make its last big ride through Washington, D.C.

Rolling Thunder, the veterans advocacy group that organizes a massive annual motorcycle ride through D.C., announced that the gathering in 2019 will be its last big rally.

7 years ago

Facebook employees talk to visitors at a one-day Facebook pop-up kiosk in Bryant Park in New York City on Thursday. The company was fielding questions about its data-sharing practices and teaching users how to understand its new privacy controls. The next day, Facebook announced that a
NPR
Technology

Facebook says some users’ private photos were accidentally shared with developers

Up to 6.8 million users may have been affected, Facebook says.

7 years ago

Participants leave before the end of the final session of the COP24 summit on climate change in Katowice, Poland on Friday, Dec. 14. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
Environment

Nations at UN climate talks back universal emissions rules

One major sticking point during the talks was how to create a functioning market in carbon credits.

7 years ago

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke speaks to members of the media outside the White House in August. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)
NPR
National

Ryan Zinke is leaving the Interior Department, Trump tweets

Zinke will be leaving the Trump administration at the end of the year; his successor is expected to be announced next week.

7 years ago

Mick Mulvaney (Carolyn Kaster/AP)
Government Accountability
National

Trump names Mick Mulvaney acting chief of staff

After several others publicly turned down the job, the budget director will step in to replace outgoing John Kelly.

7 years ago

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts (center), was just one of several potential 2020 presidential candidates who came out in support of Sanders' Medicare for All proposal in 2017. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
NPR
National

Here are the ‘outside the box’ progressive ideas 2020 Democrats are pitching

A clear trend emerging among Democrats' top 2020 contenders: They've been putting forward a steady stream of uber-progressive economic policies.

7 years ago

In this file photo, President Donald Trump shakes hands with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017, in Washington. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo)
National

Christie off list of White House chief of staff candidates

Christie cited family reasons, saying he was asking Trump to remove him from consideration. He had met with Trump on Thursday, according to a person familiar with the meeting.

7 years ago

Natural gas wells in Springville Township, Pa.
(Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

DEP unveils proposal to reduce emissions from existing oil, gas wells

Pennsylvania environmental officials have come out with a plan to reduce leaks from thousands of the state’s oil and gas wells.

7 years ago

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