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The Delaware Senate has passed the fiscal 2019 general fund budget crafted by the Carney administration and the legislative Joint Finance Committee. (State of Delaware)
Delaware
Politics

In early move, Delaware Senate passes $4.27 billion budget

The Delaware Senate, in an unusually early move, has approved a $4.27 billion budget bill for the fiscal year that starts July 1. ...

8 years ago

A girl stands with her mother during a Rally For Our Children event to protest a new
Radio Times
Immigration
Politics

Family separations: the politics, the pushback, and the support

Guests: Adam Serwer, Sabrina Vourvoulias, Anil Kalhan President Trump felt the mounting public and political pres ...

Air Date: June 21, 2018 10:00 am

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City Councilman Mark Squilla plans to introduce a bill to set best practices
for identifying and removing lead paint within Philadelphia school buildings. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Councilman proposing bill to remove lead contamination in Philly schools

Philadelphia City Councilman Mark Squilla intends to introduce an ordinance Thursday that would set best practices for identifying and re ...

8 years ago

Delaware lawmakers approved paid family leave for state workers (Zoe Read/WHYY)
Delaware
Politics

Delaware one signature away from paid family leave for public workers

Delaware legislators almost unanimously passed legislation Wednesday that offers 12 weeks paid maternity or paternity leave to full-time ...

8 years ago

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, left, listens to President Donald Trump, right, speaks to members of the media after Trump signed an executive order to end family separations, during an event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 20, 2018.
Immigration

Trump’s immigration order sparks confusion, deep concern

Despite the president's order, lawyer Peter Schey said he was concerned that several thousand children have already been separated from their parents without a clear plan.

8 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy says without an agreement on a sustainable revenue source, there will be no agreement on school funding. (Phil Gregory/WHYY)
Business
New Jersey
Politics

Disagreement over school funding could stall N.J. budget

New Jersey legislative leaders plan Thursday vote on budget plan that may not pass muster with governor.

8 years ago

In Kiribati, an island republic in the Central Pacific, large parts of the village Eita (above) have succumbed to flooding from the sea. (Jonas Gratzer/LightRocket via Getty Images)
NPR
Environment

The refugees the world barely pays attention to

Since 2008, an average of 24 million people have been displaced by catastrophic weather disasters each year.

8 years ago

Former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday about the policy response to Russian interference in the 2016 election and spoke of what other countries may be doing to emulate Russia's tactics
NPR
Elections
International

Former U.S. diplomat warns China is emulating Russian political interference

Victoria Nuland told the Senate intelligence committee "Other countries and malign actors are now adapting and improving on Russia's methodology, notably including China."

8 years ago

Some legislation under consideration in Congress focuses on the safe disposal of prescription opioids. (AP file photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Medicine
Public Health

Dueling legal prescriptions for opioid crisis, but will Congress spend more?

All hands will be needed on deck to stem the overdose crisis that is claiming as many lives a year as were lost in the entire Vietnam War, one lawmaker says.

8 years ago

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N.J. State Capitol dome in Trenton (AP, file)
Addiction
Business

New Jersey accuses scrap dealers of complicity with drug users stealing recyclable metals

A state watchdog agency in New Jersey said corrupt pawn shops, secondhand goods stores, and scrap yards are taking advantage of the opioid epidemic to maximize their profits.

8 years ago

Six redistricting measures now await House floor consideration — though Pennsylvania GOP Leader Dave Reed said the most likely bill will be one the Senate passed last week.
(AP, file)
Keystone Crossroads
Pennsylvania
Politics

Pa. House moves redistricting bill, uncertain about making deadline

If lawmakers don’t pass the amendment in time, the next year it would have an impact is 2030.

8 years ago

Immigrants recently processes and released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection wait at the the Catholic Charities RGV, Wednesday, June 20, 2018, in McAllen, Texas. Nearly 2,000 children have been separated from their families at the U.S. border over a six-week period during a crackdown on illegal entries, according to Department of Homeland Security figures obtained Friday by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Immigration
Politics

Family separation at the US-Mexico border: Candidates take on the issue

In Pennsylvania and New Jersey, candidates for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have echoed one another’s condemnation of the policy.

8 years ago

Current New Jersey law requires school buses to have lap-only belts. It's one of six states to require seatbelts at all on school buses. (Shutterstock)
New Jersey

In wake of fatal crash, New Jersey may require 3-point seat belts on all school buses

Current New Jersey law requires school buses to have lap-only belts. It's one of six states to require seatbelts at all on school buses.

8 years ago

With members of the gun control group Moms Demand Action looking on, the House Judiciary Committee debated a number of gun bills. (Photo by Katie Meyer/WITF)
Public Safety

Bump stock ban, limited firearm controls pass House committee

Over the course of two days this week, a state House panel pushed forward a raft of gun control measures that have accumulated in the chamber in recent months.

8 years ago

Children listen to speakers during an immigration family separation protest in front of the Sandra Day O'Connor U.S. District Court building, Monday, June 18, 2018, in Phoenix. An unapologetic President Donald Trump defended his administration's border-protection policies Monday in the face of rising national outrage over the forced separation of migrant children from their parents. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Immigration

In reversal, Trump signs order stopping family separation

"We want to keep families together," he said.

8 years ago

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