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Politics & Policy

Cuban President Raul Castro waves to the room as First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel, Castro's handpicked successor, claps at the National Assembly session Wednesday in Havana. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
International

With end of Castro era in sight, Cuba prepares to pass power to new generation

For the first time since the Cuban revolution, the island nation will hail a leader outside the Castro family.

7 years ago

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, left, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and Sen. Cory Booker attend an event kicking off Menendez's campaign for re-election at Union City High School, Wednesday, March 28, 2018, in Union City, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Radio Times
K-12
New Jersey

New Jersey politics roundup

Guests: Ryan Hutchins, Brigid Harrison, John Mooney We’re spending this hour catching up on some of the big sto ...

Air Date: April 19, 2018 10:00 am

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President Donald Trump
Speak Easy
National
Race & Ethnicity

This is how Trump is destroying the Republican Party

The party of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass has emerged as the party of intolerance and exclusion in the 21st century.

7 years ago

Delaware Gov. John Carney signs legislation Wednesday that raises the maximum sentence for the illegal purchase, transfer or possession of a firearm. (Zoe Read/WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Delaware
Politics
Public Safety

Gov. Carney signs law increasing Delaware sentences for gun crimes

Aimed at preventing gun violence, the measure is one of several the governor supports.

7 years ago

(Shutterstock photo)
New Jersey

It may take more than year for New Jersey to rejoin RGGI climate pact

The nine other states in RGGI are ready to welcome New Jersey back, but it’ll take a while to negotiate the specifics of the agreement.

7 years ago

President Donald Trump
International

Watch: President Trump hosts news conference with Japan’s Prime Minister Abe

The joint press conference begins at 6 p.m.

7 years ago

In this Saturday, April 14, 2018 file photo, UN vehicles carrying the team of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), arrive at hotel hours after the U.S., France and Britian launched an attack on Syrian facilities for suspected chemical attack against civilians, in Damascus, Syria. The OPCW has been thrust once again into the international limelight by a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in Britain and allegations of a chemical bombardment on the Syrian city of Douma. It is now attempting to investigate, but its experts have not yet been able to visit the scene. (Bassem Mroue/AP Photo, File)
International
Military

UN team fired on at suspected Syria chemical attack site

Gunmen shot at the U.N. team in Douma on Tuesday and detonated an explosive.

7 years ago

District Attorney Larry Krasner explains how fewer prosecutions mean a smaller prison population,  allowing the House of Corrections to be shut down by 2020. (Tom MacDonald, WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia

Philadelphia to shutter century-old jail by 2020

Efforts to cut city's prison population are paying off, Philadelphia officials say.

7 years ago

Listen 2:25
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, seen here in February on Capitol Hill, announced the birth of a daughter, making her the first U.S. senator to give birth while in office. (Alex Brandon/AP)
NPR
Home & Family
Kids

After lawmaker gives birth, Senate poised to allow infants in for votes

The measure would allow moms and dads to bring an infant along to votes until the child reaches one year.

7 years ago

George Soros, a New York hedge fund billionaire and longtime bankroller of liberal political causes.  (Ferdinand Ostrop/AP Photo)
National Interest

Why are right-wing paranoids so obsessed with George Soros?

It was inevitable that right-wing fans of the Trump-Cohen-Hannity troika would try to slime the federal judge who’s handling the Mi ...

7 years ago

Under the bill, most adult, able-bodied recipients of Medicaid would have to document work, or attempts to get it. (Sue Ogrocki/AP Photo)
Pennsylvania

Wolf opposes Medicaid work requirements passed by House

The proposal would require able-bodied adults to work 20 hours a week, look for work, or attend job-training.

7 years ago

Former Deputy Mayor Rich Lazer (second from right) launches his congressional race at a South Philadelphia playground.
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Elections
Pennsylvania

Electricians union Local 98 gives $200,000 to super PAC

A super PAC backed by Electricians Local 98 has formed a super PAC to help Philadelphia congressional candidate Rich Lazer.

7 years ago

An Ortley Beach bungalow is raised. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Down the Shore
Insurance
New Jersey

Feds extend deadline for Sandy survivors to access flood mitigation funding

The program provides homeowners up to $30,000. 

7 years ago

(Steve Ruark/AP Photo, file)
New Jersey

New Jersey reports 20 percent drop in pretrial detentions following bail overhaul

Changes to to the bail system mean defendants accused of low-risk crimes no longer have to sit in jail because they can’t afford modest bail costs,.

7 years ago

Pictured in 2005, former first lady Barbara Bush died Tuesday. Following a recent series of hospitalizations and after consulting with her family and doctors, the 92-year-old former first lady had decided not to seek additional medical treatment. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)

Barbara Bush, wife and mother of presidents, dies at 92

Barbara Bush was one of only two first ladies who had a child who was elected president.

7 years ago

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