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An employee at the Utah County Election office puts mail in ballots into a container to register the vote in the midterm elections on November 6.
(George Frey/Getty Images)
NPR
Elections
National

Voting by mail is on the rise, but could alleged N.C. election fraud change that?

Supporters say it increases turnout, because it is significantly more convenient for most voters.

7 years ago

A demonstrator waves a French flag on the Champs-Elysees avenue Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018 in Paris. Crowds of yellow-vested protesters angry at President Emmanuel Macron and France's high taxes tried to converge on the presidential palace Saturday, some scuffling with police firing tear gas, amid exceptional security measures aimed at preventing a repeat of last week's rioting. (Rafael Yaghobzadeh/AP)
International

Paris cleans up after latest riot; pressure builds on Macron

France deployed some 89,000 police but still failed to deter the determined protesters.

7 years ago

Governor Tom Wolf has said questions about Senator-elect Lindsey Williams' residency aren't productive. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Pennsylvania

Pa. Gov. Wolf says Senator-elect Williams should be allowed to take office

A special election would have to be held if the chamber decides not to seat Williams.

7 years ago

Sen. Cory Booker
Elections
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Sen. Cory Booker visits New Hampshire in preview for 2020

Booker was invited by the New Hampshire Democratic Party to headline its post-midterm election "victory celebration" in Manchester.

7 years ago

John Kelly took over as chief of staff six months into the Trump presidency, and he initially helped bring military discipline to a sometimes chaotic White House. (Evan Vucci/AP)
NPR
National

Chief of Staff John Kelly to leave White House at the end of the year

Trump did not announce who would replace Kelly but said that would come in a day or two.

7 years ago

In this May 25, 2017 file photo, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley listens to a question while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Army's fiscal 2018 budget. President Donald Trump will tap Gen. Mark Milley as his next top military adviser. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)
Military
National

Trump picks Gen. Mark Milley as next top military adviser

Gen. Mark Milley, a battle-hardened commander who oversaw troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, will be the nation's next top military adviser.

7 years ago

In this Nov. 28, 2018, photo, lawyer Shoichi Ibusuki, (center), attends a press conference on the problems in Japan's technical intern program, with Eng Pisey, (right), Cambodian technical intern and Huang Shihu, left, Chinese technical intern in Tokyo. Ibusuki, lawyer specializing in labor cases and supporting victimized foreign students and interns, called the internship program as a disguise to use trainees as mere cheap labor and should be scrapped and replaced with the new program underway. Japan is set to approve legislation that would officially open the door to foreign workers to do unskilled jobs and possibly eventually become citizens. (Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)
Economy
International
Race & Ethnicity

Japan to OK divisive bill allowing more foreign workers

It's seen as an unavoidable step as the country's population of about 126 million rapidly ages and shrinks.

7 years ago

(From left) WITF Smart Talk host Scott LaMar speaks with Gov. Tom Wolf and first lady Frances Wolf during a live broadcast from the Governors Residence in Harrisburg on Dec. 7, 2018. (Lisa Wardle/WITF)
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Gov. Wolf on climate change: ‘We are having real problems’

Wolf spoke Friday morning at the Governor’s Residence with Scott LaMar, host of WITF’s Smart Talk.

7 years ago

In this Sept. 10, 2013 file photo, Justin Clark is shown in Bridgeport, Conn. White House political director Bill Stepien and Justin Clark, the director of the office of public liaison, are leaving the administration to work on President Donald Trump's re-election campaign. (Jessica Hill/AP Photo)
Elections
National

Trump political aides shifting over to re-election campaign

Bill Stepien and Justin Clark are leaving the administration to work on President Donald Trump's re-election campaign.

7 years ago

Attorney General nominee William Barr with then-Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, (left), and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., before Barr's hearing on Nov. 12, 1991. (John Duricka/AP)
NPR
Law
National

Trump says he’ll nominate William Barr to return as Attorney General

Barr served as George H.W. Bush's attorney general from 1991 to 1993.

7 years ago

From left to right: Michael Cohen, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort (AP)
Radio Times
Elections
Politics

Mueller’s big week

Guests: Quinta Jurecic, Andrew Prokop, David Corn It’s a busy week for the Mueller investigation. On Tue ...

Air Date: December 7, 2018 10:00 am

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Father Michael Doyle talks about his role in the Camden 28, a group of activists who in 1971 broke into a draft board office to destroy the records of draft registrants in protest of the Vietnam War.
Government Accountability
History
Movies

Camden 28 revisit court where they were tried for ’71 break-in to protest Vietnam War

As war casualties mounted, several draft board raids occurred throughout the country. But the Camden 28 case was the only one where all defendants were acquitted.

7 years ago

Wolf makes a speech in front of the Capitol Christmas tree as protesters display a banner telling him not to be a grinch. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania

Inmate advocates interrupt Wolf’s holiday speech, plead for looser prison mail policy

At the top of the rotunda stairs they unfurled a banner that read, "Wolf, don't be a grinch, end cruel mail policies."

7 years ago

President Trump's national security adviser Michael Flynn leaves federal courthouse in Washington on July 10. Flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and is scheduled to be sentenced later this month. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
NPR
National

The rise and fall of Michael Flynn

Flynn has been on a roller-coaster ride.

7 years ago

Romanian Ambassador to the U.S. George Maior talks about his visit to Delaware inside the Hotel DuPont in downtown Wilmington. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Delaware
Economic Development
International

Romanian ambassador visits Wilmington, tours port

George Maior met with leaders of the World Trade Center of Delaware and toured the Port of Wilmington during his time in the First State.

7 years ago

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