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Politics & Policy

In this May 16, 2012, file photo, the Facebook logo is displayed on an iPad in Philadelphia (Matt Rourke/AP Photo).
Law
Policing

Should you need to pass a social media check to get a gun?

Should hateful posts keep you from getting a gun?

7 years ago

The new legislative session will officially start in 2019. (Tim Lambert/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads
Pennsylvania

Pa. lawmakers circulate memos in anticipation of new redistricting battle

Though the new state legislative session hasn't technically started, lawmakers are already filing memos for the bills they plan to sponsor.

7 years ago

The official portrait of former President George H.W. Bush is draped in black cloth at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, to mark his passing. Bush will lay in state at the Capitol building this week before being buried in Texas. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Radio Times
History
Politics

The legacy of George H.W. Bush

Guests: Joe Watkins, Jeet Heer, John Meacham Over the weekend, President George Herbert Walker Bush died at the ...

Air Date: December 4, 2018

Listen 49:30
Michigan's Democratic Attorney General-elect Dana Nessel. Republican lawmakers meet Tuesday to try to limit some of her authority
NPR
Elections
National

In states they lost, some GOP lawmakers rush to limit new Democrats’ power

Less than a month after the midterm elections, Republican state lawmakers in Wisconsin and Michigan are working to limit the powers of newly elected Dem in statewide office.

7 years ago

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PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Transportation
PlanPhilly

City Council to vote on higher fines for tow trucks

Cleaner, safer roads is the goal of new legislation that would increase the fines levied on negligent Philadelphia tow truck drivers.

7 years ago

In this file photo taken Aug. 19, 2008, the Chevron Genesis Oil Rig Platform is seen in the Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans, La. (Mary Altaffer/AP Photo)
Delaware
Energy
Environment

Delaware opposes U.S. effort to search for oil beneath ocean surface

The National Marine Fisheries Service has awarded permits to five marine contractors to conduct the tests in the Atlantic Ocean between Delaware and Central Florida.

7 years ago

Ken Smukler outside the federal courthouse in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY, file)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Philadelphia

Federal jury convicts Bob Brady associate in Philly

Political consultant Ken Smukler is found guilty of covering up payments for congressman's deal to get opponent to drop out of race.

7 years ago

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 1988 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, Vice President George H.W. Bush,  right, and his running mate Sen. Dan Quayle, R-Ind., wave to the assembly of the Republican National Convention in New Orleans after their acceptance speeches for the presidential and vice-presidential nomination.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
National Interest
National

Before he was ‘kinder, gentler,’ Poppy Bush pioneered TV ad lies

What Bush did during that 1988 campaign - and what we in the press allowed him to get away with - can't be whitewashed.

7 years ago

FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2007, file photo, former President George H.W. Bush arrives at the 2007 Ronald Reagan Freedom Award gala dinner held in his honor in Beverly Hills, Calif. Bush has died at age 94. Family spokesman Jim McGrath says Bush died shortly after 10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, about eight months after the death of his wife, Barbara Bush. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)
National

President George H.W. Bush to lie in state in Washington, D.C.

The former president’s body will arrive in Washington, D.C., today to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

7 years ago

Migrants run from tear gas launched by U.S. agents, amid photojournalists covering the Mexico-U.S. border, after a group of migrants got past Mexican police at the Chaparral crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
The Why
Explainers
History
Pennsylvania
Public Health
Public Safety

Tears in Jamestown: A Pennsylvania company’s role in the global tear gas trade

Why a western Pa. company that's become a major player in the global tear gas trade is also embroiled in a legal battle with neighbors of its manufacturing facilities.

Air Date: December 3, 2018

Listen 16:10
Rep.-elect Lucy McBath, D-Ga., reacts after drawing her number during the Member-elect room lottery draw on Capitol Hill in Washington on Friday.
(Susan Walsh/AP)
NPR
National

Office real estate is a game of chance for new House members

The lottery is the answer to how incoming freshmen get to pick their office spaces. Since no member has seniority, it's all a game of chance.

7 years ago

Yellow vests (Gilets jaunes) protest against rising oil prices and living costs on the Champs Elysees in Paris, France, on December 1, 2018. Thousands of anti-government protesters are expected today on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, a week after a violent demonstration on the famed avenue was marked by burning barricades and rampant vandalism that President Emmanuel Macron compared to
Economy
International

Macron tours damaged Arc de Triomphe after Paris hit by riot

Paris police said Sunday that 133 people had been injured and 412 had been arrested as protesters trashed the streets of the capital during a demonstration Saturday.

7 years ago

George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, speaks at a fundraiser in Dallas in 1991.  (Marcy Nighswander/AP Photo)
NPR
History

George H.W. Bush to lie in state at the Capitol, and be buried in Texas

Bush will be buried next to his wife and former first lady Barbara Bush, who died in April, along with his daughter Pauline Robinson Bush, who died in 1953 at 3 years old.

7 years ago

China's President Xi Jinping, (center), and members of his official delegation, listen to President Donald Trump speak during their bilateral meeting at the G20 Summit, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Economy
International

U.S., China put brakes on trade dispute with cease-fire

"It's an incredible deal," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, adding, "if it happens it goes down as one of the largest deals ever made."

7 years ago

Working visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Buenos Aires. G20 Summit. From left to right in the front row: British Prime Minister Theresa May, French President Emmanuel Macron, US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the ceremony of joint photographing of all G20 participants. November 30, 2018. Argentina, Buenos Aires. (Photo by Dmitry Azarov/Kommersant/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)
International

G-20 agrees on trade, migration, U.S. goes own way on climate

Only 19 agreed to support the Paris accord on fighting climate change with the United States the lone holdout.

7 years ago

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