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President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, a federal appeals court judge, listens to a question while testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018, for the second day of his confirmation hearing to replace retired Justice Anthony Kennedy. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Kavanaugh’s lips sealed on White House subpoenas, pardons

Pressured by Democrats with Donald Trump on their minds, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh rejected repeated efforts at WednesdayR ...

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Senate Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., (left) and Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C. want answers from top leaders of Big Tech. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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International

Technology

Senate intel committee vents about hijacking of big tech for information war

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testified about the work they're doing.

8 years ago

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, a federal appeals court judge, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2018, to begin his confirmation to replace retired Justice Anthony Kennedy. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Law

Politics

Kavanaugh hearings off to a contentious start

Guest: Amanda Terkel The confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had a contentious start o ...

Air Date: September 5, 2018 10:00 am

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Governor Phil Murphy holds a press conference on the Gateway Project in Secaucus on September 4, 2018. Edwin J. Torres/NJ Governor's Office.

New Jersey urging President Trump to support Gateway tunnel project

Gov. Phil Murphy and members of New Jersey’s congressional delegation are seeking the Trump administration’s support for completi ...

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Democratic U.S. Senate candidates Kerri Evelyn Harris and incumbent Sen. Tom Carper debate in advance of Thursday's primary election. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Delaware

Elections

Politics

Delaware Democrats’ choice in primary could steer party’s future direction

In the race for the U.S. Senate Democratic nomination, political newcomer Kerri Evelyn Harris is facing incumbent U.S. Sen. Tom Carper

8 years ago

Cathy Stone (right), executive director of the Domestic Abuse Project of Delaware County, holds up a headline-grabbing example of domestic abuse during a press conference to promote Pensylvania House Bill 2060, which prohibits abusers from possessing guns. She is joined by (from left) Sara Wallace of Moms Demand Action and state Rep. Leanne Krueger-Braneky, a co-sponsor of the bill. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Politics

Bill to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers stalled in Pa.

The bill passed the Pennsylvania Senate unanimously in March, but the House version never came up for a vote.

8 years ago

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Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski, who is facing corruption charges, walks to the federal courthouse in Philadelphia during a break in a pretrial hearing, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017. Pawlowski has denied accusations that he accepted more than $150,000 in campaign contributions in exchange for city contracts.

Keystone Crossroads

Government Accountability

Pennsylvania

Ex-Allentown mayor Pawlowski gets new sentencing date

Former Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski was originally scheduled for sentencing on his federal corruption conviction Wednesday. But his Phila ...

8 years ago

New Jersey

Public Health

New Jersey water systems must start testing for PFNA in early 2019

New Jersey on Tuesday became the first state to regulate the PFAS class of chemicals that has been linked to cancer and other illnesses, ...

8 years ago

President Trump's top aides have wrought an elaborate system of schemes to keep him from taking actions they feared would hurt the country, according to accounts in a new book by Bob Woodward.

NPR

‘Idiot,’ ‘unhinged,’ a ‘sixth-grader’: Aides fault Trump in explosive new book

Woodward's latest book, Fear, is focused on the Trump White House and is set to be officially released on Sept. 11.

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East Front of the U.S. Capitol at sunset in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Elections

National

Election security bill backers say delay helps Russia

Just two months before the midterm elections, bipartisan legislation to try to prevent foreign hacking into U.S. election systems is stalled in Congress.

8 years ago

FILE - In this June 29, 2018, file photo, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to the media in Cincinnati. Dick Harpootlian, a longtime fixture in South Carolina’s Democratic political circles announced Wednesday, Aug. 1, that he’s getting a campaign boost from one of the party’s top dogs. In an email to supporters, Harpootlian said that he is being supported by Biden in his special election quest for a state Senate seat in the Columbia area. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Delaware

Elections

Advisers say Joe Biden to decide on a 2020 run by January

Biden is convinced he can beat President Donald Trump, friends and advisers say, and he has given himself until January to deliberate and size up potential competition.

8 years ago

Delaware

Elections

Religion

Rosh Hashanah forces rare Thursday primary vote in Delaware

Delaware voters will head to the polls on Thursday instead of the traditional Tuesday to pick candidates for the November ballot.

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(From left), Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., arrive at the Capitol for a procedural vote on an appropriations measure, in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)

Kavanaugh hearing a test for Sen. Cory Booker in new role

'We’re preparing for this like everything is at stake,' Booker says of confirmation hearings beginning Tuesday.

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Former President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks at a memorial service for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018. McCain died Aug. 25, from brain cancer at age 81. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Interest

Obama, Bush, and Hemingway: McCain’s gifts to a troubled nation

McCain called on his old foes, Bush and Obama, to stress his enduring values, and perhaps prompt a sufficient share of voters to seize the future and steer us back to safety.

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San Francisco 49ers' Colin Kaepernick kneels during the national anthem before an NFL football game against the Seattle Seahawks, in Seattle, in September 2016. (Ted S. Warren/AP)

Pennsylvania

Race & Ethnicity

Pennsylvania GOP official resigns over racist Facebook posts

A Pennsylvania Republican official who referred to black NFL players who kneel during the national anthem as "baboons" in a Facebook post has resigned.

8 years ago

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