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Plastic trash is deposited at the high tide line at Monmouth Beach, New Jersey, where local merchants are banned from using plastic straws, styrofoam food containers, and plastic bags. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

New Jersey’s governor to veto 5-cent fee on single-use grocery bags

Senate Environment Committee chairman Bob Smith announced the upcoming veto at a legislative hearing in Toms River on Thursday.

7 years ago

Media

National

National Enquirer kept safe with damaging Trump stories

The National Enquirer kept a safe containing documents on hush money payments and other damaging stories it killed as part of its cozy relationship with Donald Trump

7 years ago

Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired back at President Trump Thursday after more criticism about his handling of the Justice Department.

NPR

Government Accountability

National

Sessions rebukes Trump with vow Justice Department won’t be swayed by politics

Attorney General Jeff Sessions answered needling by President Trump on Thursday with a vow that as long as he runs the Justice Department, it won't be swayed by politics.

7 years ago

From l-r., Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Rep. Mike Bishop, R-Mich., meet with reporters to announce the Republicans' proposed rewrite of the tax code for individuals and corporations, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017.

Government Accountability

National

The Conversation

Today’s GOP leaders have little in common with those who resisted Nixon

Today’s GOP leaders, with few exceptions, meekly follow President Trump.

7 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks to the media on Tuesday in Charleston, W.Va., shortly after the guilty plea of his former lawyer Michael Cohen on campaign finance violations, among other charges, and the guilty verdict against former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

NPR

National

Fact check: Trump’s misguided defense of Cohen payments

Fox & Friends was the natural venue for President Trump to strike back against Michael Cohen.

7 years ago

The Democratic National Committee, led by its chairman, Tom Perez, said on Tuesday it has discovered a cyberattack-in-progress against its voter database. Branden Camp/AP

NPR

DNC reports attempted cyberattack to feds, says no compromise of voter database

7 years ago

WESA

NewsWorks Tonight

Elections

Pennsylvania

Dog-whistle politics: How getting the dog vote can help candidates running for office

Warning: This story contains dog puns.

7 years ago

Carmen Ashley, great aunt of Antwon Rose Jr. talks with reporters outside of the courthouse following a hearing for East Pittsburgh police officer Michael Rosfeld on Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018, in Pittsburgh. Rosfeld is charged in the June 19 shooting death of Rose, an unarmed teenager as he fled a traffic stop. (AP Photo/Don Wright)

East Pittsburgh officer arraigned in death of Antwon Rose Jr.

A Pennsylvania police officer has been formally arraigned on a homicide charge in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager who was ...

7 years ago

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Hugin exits a voting booth in the June New Jersey primary election. A new Quinnipiac poll shows he’s gaining momentum in his race against incumbent Democrat Bob Menendez. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Poll: U.S. Senate race in New Jersey becoming more competitive

Gov. Phil Murphy rising in voters estimation, Quinnipiac poll finds

7 years ago

National Interest

The ‘law and order’ candidate is now an unindicted co-conspirator

Put your hands together for the rule of law. That glugging sound you hear is Trump's swamp being drained.

7 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks during a rally Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, at the Civic Center in Charleston W.Va. (AP Photo/Tyler Evert)

Trump avoids mention of Manafort, Cohen at rally

President Trump addressed a rally in Charleston, West Virginia, Tuesday evening to lend his support to U.S. Senate candidate Patrick Mor ...

7 years ago

Philadelphia

Domb questions Kenney math on selling West Philly property

The Kenney administration wouldn't provide the sale price for the West Philadelphia property until a deal is finalized.

7 years ago

The Longview Power Plant in Maidsville, W.Va.,Thursday, July 6, 2017. Operators of the coal-burning plant, a new plant that began producing power in 2011, report higher efficiency and lower emissions than other U.S. coal-fired power plants. (Michael Virtanen/AP Photo)

Delaware

Energy

Environment

Dems pledge to fight Trump power plan replacement

U.S. Senate Democrats pledged to fight 'tooth and nail' against the proposal. Meanwhile, a Pa. industry group welcomes the plan for relaxing pollution regulation.

7 years ago