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Eileen O’Brien of Pennsauken, who has been riding the Atlantic City rail line for 25 years, expresses frustration with delays in reopening the line during a public hearing in Cherry Hill.
New Jersey
Transportation

NJ Transit: Atlantic City line won’t arrive until May 24

New Jersey Transit met Dec. 31 deadlines for installing positive train control, but the Atlantic City line shut for that work won’t be back until May 24.

7 years ago

President Donald Trump meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, in Hanoi. No deal was reached. (Evan Vucci/AP)
NPR
International
Military
Public Safety

Trump and Kim’s second nuclear summit ends with no deal

A planned signing ceremony was canceled. The biggest sticking point was sanctions against North Korea, Trump said at a press conference Thursday afternoon local time.

7 years ago

U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (left), D-Calif., joined by shooting survivor and former Rep. Gabby Giffords of Arizona, holds a news conference about his proposed gun background check legislation, on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
NPR
National

House passes gun bill, most significant measure in 20 years

The House passed what advocates call the most significant gun control measure in more than two decades on Wednesday.

7 years ago

City Council President Darrell Clarke (center) at a ribbon cutting event. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Housing
Philadelphia

Philly hunting for new chief property assessor

Mayor Jim Kenney says he's looking for a new assessment chief because current property assessments have been off target by 15 percent in large swaths of the city.

7 years ago

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, is sworn in to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
National

Russia, hush money, lies: Takeaways from Cohen’s testimony

In matter-of-fact testimony, the former Trump lawyer drew a troubling picture of his former boss, implicating the president in lies big and small to the American public.

7 years ago

Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman, R-Centre, at the podium, speaks after Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf delivered his budget address for the 2019-20 fiscal year to a joint session of the Pennsylvania House and Senate in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Income Inequality
Pennsylvania
PA Post

Pa. GOP lawmakers soften opposition to minimum wage hike

One of Governor Tom Wolf’s perennially-unsuccessful policy suggestions may face better odds this year.

7 years ago

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, arrives to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo)
National Interest

‘Goodfellas’ on the Potomac

Lest we forget, we would not have heard from Cohen today, in a public session, if the midterm electorate had not thrown the House Republicans out of power.

7 years ago

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Down the Shore
Business
Food & Drink
New Jersey

Shore town seeks to end outdoor dining ban

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

7 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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 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.
 (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 years ago

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