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81 new tax-free sites OK’d by City Council committee

8 years ago

Akemi Vargas, 8, cries as she talks about being separated from her father
Immigration

Youngest migrants held in ‘tender age’ shelters

Lawyers and medical providers who have visited the Rio Grande Valley shelters described play rooms of crying preschool-age children in crisis.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg. (WITF)

Pennsylvania close to a budget deal

The plan calls for spending $32.7 billion — roughly $700 million more than last year.

8 years ago

Protesters at Rittenhouse Square where Vice President Mike Pence is attending a Republican fundraising event. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Immigration
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Hundreds of protesters picket Pence at Philly fundraiser, decry family separations

Hundreds of demonstrators assail vice president over policy of splitting up undocumented families at border.

8 years ago

Legislation to ban certain assault-style weapons in Delaware failed to win approval for a vote on the Senate floor Tuesday. (Zoë Read/WHYY)
Delaware
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Delaware assault weapons ban fails in state Senate

The bill failed to clear a Senate committee two weeks ago, but Democrats attempted to resurrect it under a suspension of rules.

8 years ago

The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, seen earlier this year during a presentation on the conflict in Syria. On Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Ambassador Nikki Haley announced that the U.S. will be withdrawing from the council. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)
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International

U.S. announces its withdrawal from U.N.’s Human Rights Council

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley announced the decision in a joint statement to the media Tuesday.

8 years ago

Former City Controller Jon Saidel wills serve as co-chairman of the task force. (Tom MacDonald/ WHYY)
Economy
Philadelphia

Financial reconciliation task force aims to prevent ‘kicking can’ to Philly’s next mayor

Former City Controller Jon Saidel, who will co-chair the task force, said the panel will work to make sure the public knows where every dollar belongs.

8 years ago

Legislative Hall in Dover. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Delaware
Politics

Delaware state Rep. Helene Keeley announces retirement

After more than 20 years representing Wilmington residents, state Rep. Helene Keeley has announced she will retire at the end of her term.

8 years ago

Gov. John Carney said he won't send Delaware National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexican border until the Trump administration changes its policy of separating children from parents arrested at the border for illegal immigration or held while awaiting a decision on their request for asylum. (Bigstockphoto.com)
Delaware
Immigration

Gov. Carney refuses request for Del. National Guard troops at Mexican border

'If President Trump revokes the inhumane policy of separating children from their parents, Delaware will be first in line to assist in securing the border,' Carney says.

8 years ago

Abbie Hyde protests the practice of separating children from their families outside of the Center City offices of ICE in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Immigration

Pa. politicians weigh in on ‘zero-tolerance’ policy that separates migrant families

Approach is 'straight from the pit of hell,' says U.S. Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania.

8 years ago

Demonstrators speak and play guitar at the last of six Poor People's Campaign rallies. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Social Justice

Poor People’s Campaign holds sixth and final rally in Harrisburg

After staging demonstrations for weeks, the Pennsylvania chapter of the national Poor People's Campaign has ended its extended residency in the state Capitol rotunda.

8 years ago

Critics of U.S. government policy that separates children from their parents when they cross the border illegally from Mexico protest in downtown LA on June 14. The former first ladies, and Melania Trump, have pushed back against the policy
NPR
Immigration

First Ladies unite against separating children at border

America's current and former First Ladies are pushing back against the Trump Administration's practice of separating children from their parents at the border

8 years ago

(U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP
Radio Times
Immigration
Politics

‘Zero tolerance’ and child detainees in the U.S.

Guests: Julián Aguilar, Laura Benshoff, Dana Sinopoli It’s estimated that in the last 6 weeks, 2,000 child ...

Air Date: June 19, 2018 10:00 am

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel
PBS NewsHour
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Angela Merkel says climate change is ‘a fact,’ laments U.S. stance

8 years ago

Lucia Ajas, middle, talks about her and her children, Regina Vargas, 7, left, Akemi Vargas, 8, second from left, and Trinidad Vargas, 5, right, being separated from their father 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.
National Interest

Will Trump’s kid cruelty sink the GOP in November?

Is this finally the issue that will shock voters back to sanity?

8 years ago

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