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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks in during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018. Pelosi says she's confident she will win enough support to be elected speaker of the House next year and that she is the best person for the job. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
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Public Safety

Democrats promise congressional action on gun control

Measures including expanded background checks and a ban on assault-style weapons are likely to reach the House floor.

8 years ago

President Donald Trump talks with reporters before departing for France on the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Law

Future seems uncertain for Trump’s acting attorney general

Matthew Whitaker's future at the Justice Department appears uncertain as President Donald Trump denies even knowing the man he's just named acting attorney general.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania state Rep. Mark Rozzi, D-Berks,  says creating compensation funds is a step in the right direction, but retroactive lawsuits should be an option too. (Marc Levy/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Pennsylvania
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Dioceses’ compensation funds shouldn’t end Pa. victims’ right to sue, advocates say

Seven of Pennsylvania’s eight Catholic dioceses have announced plans to create funds to compensate those abused by priests as children, ...

8 years ago

A group of Central American migrants, representing the thousands participating in a caravan trying to reach the U.S. border, undertake an hours-long march to the office of the United Nations' humans rights body in Mexico City, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. Members of the caravan which has stopped in Mexico City demanded buses Thursday to take them to the U.S. border, saying it is too cold and dangerous to continue walking and hitchhiking.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Immigration
National

Trump limits asylum, says migrants must ‘come legally’

Trump issued an order Friday to deny asylum to migrants who enter the country illegally, tightening the border as caravans of Central Americans slowly approach the U.S.

8 years ago

from top left to bottom right: Chrissy Houlahan, Susan Wild, Mary Gay Scanlon, Madeleine Dean
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Elections
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Women & the 2018 midterms

Guests: Kelly Ditmar, Dawn Teele, Anthea Butler, Madeleine Deane This week’s midterm elections were record-bre ...

Air Date: November 9, 2018 10:00 am

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Pennsylvania state Sen. Anthony Hardy Williams (left) and former City Controller Alan Butkovitz  (Emma Lee/WHYY and Jana Shea for WHYY)
Philadelphia

In Philly, Williams and Butkovitz weigh challenge to Mayor Kenney

Potential Democratic primary challengers begin to emerge

8 years ago

Officials bury the hatchet at Return Day in Georgetown, Delaware. The ceremony symbolizes the end of political hostilities in the First State. (Chuck Snyder/for WHYY)
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Vanquished Simpler, victorious Davis embody Delaware’s unique Return Day

Ken Simpler, Delaware’s first-term treasurer, was viewed by many in political circles as a possible Republican challenger to Democratic ...

8 years ago

Jeff Sessions was pushed out Wednesday as U.S. attorney general after enduring more than a year of blistering and personal attacks from President Donald Trump over his recusal from the Russia investigation. Groups throughout the country planned demonstrations to protest the ouster. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Pennsylvania
Politics

Harrisburg protesters join national demonstrations against Sessions’ ouster

Activists are launching widespread protests over ...

8 years ago

Jeff Sessions was pushed out Wednesday as U.S. attorney general after enduring more than a year of blistering and personal attacks from President Donald Trump over his recusal from the Russia investigation. Groups throughout the country planned demonstrations to protest the ouster. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Radio Times
Politics

The firing of AG Sessions

President Trump fired embattled Attorney General Jeff Sessions yesterday. We’ll discuss Sessions’ tenure, his stormy relationship wit ...

8 years ago

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Crews work to stabilize sinkholes in a West Whiteland Township, Chester County neighborhood on March 3. The sinkholes appeared near a construction site for the Mariner East 2 pipeline. (Eric Friedman)
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Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pipeline opponent wins Chester County seat in state House

Danielle Friel Otten says a pipeline being built yards from her back door motivated her to run.

8 years ago

After winning Kansas' 3rd District, Sharice Davids is projected to become one of the first Native American women to serve in Congress and the first LGBTQ person to represent the state in the lawmaking body. (Whitney Curtis/Getty Images)
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Elections
LGBTQ
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‘Rainbow wave’: How did the record class of LGBTQ nominees fare?

8 years ago

Delaware state Rep.-elect Sherry Dorsey Walker greets supporters in 2018 at the Doubletree Hotel in Wilmington. (Saquan Stimpson for WHYY)
Delaware
Gender
Race & Ethnicity

Election brings more diversity to Delaware Legislature

Tuesday’s election has made Delaware’s General Assembly a more diverse legislature. In a state that’s 22 percent Afr ...

8 years ago

People wait in line to vote just after 7 a.m. at the Local 135 union hall on Sandy Street in Norristown, Montgomery County. (Katie Colaneri/WHYY)
Elections

It wasn’t just your polling place — turnout was way up through the region Tuesday

If you had to wait in line to vote, count yourself among friends. Preliminary vote totals from the Philad ...

8 years ago

In this April 14, 2016, file photo, Braddock, Pa., then-Mayor, now Lt Gov-elect John Fetterman meets with people following a news conference he held in Norristown, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo, File)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Pennsylvania

Fetterman has ambitions, but does he have a tie?

We ask Lt. Gov. John Fetterman about a Senate run in 2020 and the dress code for presiding over the Pa. Senate.

8 years ago

New acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker participates in an August roundtable event at the Department of Justice's Kennedy building in Washington, D.C.
NPR

What will acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker mean for the Mueller inquiry?

8 years ago

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