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Here! Now! In the moment! Paddling in the middle of a fast moving stream of news and information. Here & Now is a daily news magazine, bringing you the news that breaks after "Morning Edition" and before "All Things Considered."

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Politics & Policy

The House bill calls for $65 million in loans and grants, administered by the USDA, to establish
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Health Care
National

Farm Bill could undo part of the Affordable Care Act

Tucked deep inside the House version of the massive bill is a provision that could help provide farmers with cheaper health insurance than plans.

8 years ago

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) speaks during a September 2017 news conference. Booker has released plan that would establish job guarantee programs in 15 communities. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
NPR
National

Likely 2020 Democratic candidates want to guarantee a job to every American

Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Bernie Sanders and others back "job guarantee" programs, to assure jobs for all who want them.

8 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy appoints Bill Castner as his senior adviser on firearms. (Phil Gregory/WHYY)
New Jersey
Public Safety

Murphy names top adviser on N.J. gun-control policies

Bill Castner will coordinate already launched initiatives and will evaluate potential legal challenges against unscrupulous gun manufacturers, distributors, and retailers.

8 years ago

Attorney Roy Cohn, former U.S. Senate Committee Counsel, is shown in a January 1969 photo. (AP Photo)
National Interest

Trump tries to conjure the ghastly ghost of Roy Cohn

When Rudy Giuliani debased himself in the service of Trump by smearing FBI agents as “stormtroopers,” he was merely auditioni ...

8 years ago

Gov. Tom Wolf aide, Yesenia Bane, speaking on a panel discussion at the Marcellus Shale Coalition's Shale Insight conference in 2016 in Pittsburgh. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania

Ethics investigation of Wolf aide advances; gas industry conflict of interest alleged

The State Ethics Commission is moving ahead with a full investigation of Governor Tom Wolf’s deputy chief of staff, Yesenia Bane.

8 years ago

City Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown initiated the ballot question that asks voters,
Elections
Philadelphia

Philly voters to decide if city workers will be trained to prevent sexual harassment

If enough voters approve, all city employees will be required to complete the training at least once every three years.

8 years ago

The dome of the state Capitol in Trenton, New Jersey

New Jersey considering tougher consumer privacy requirements

One bill calls for requiring a company that had a data breach to pay the costs for customers to get a credit report every month for six months.

8 years ago

An Israeli intelligence firm was reportedly hired last year to compile background dossiers on several former Obama administration officials, including Colin Kahl, seen here in 2012.
NPR
Government Accountability
International

Reports: Intel firm was hired to discredit former Obama Iran deal negotiators

An Israeli intelligence firm was hired last year to do "dirty ops" research on former Obama administration officials who worked on the Iran nuclear deal.

8 years ago

The Philadelphia Inquirer and Harrisburg Patriot News have endorsed Laura Ellsworth in the May 15 Republican gubernatorial primary. (Ellsworth campaign video/https://youtu.be/ZDy216wm-So)
Dave Davies: Off Mic

Ellsworth makes her move in Pa. GOP governor’s race

Outspent for most of the campaign, Laura Ellsworth is getting air time and endorsements right before the May 15 primary.

8 years ago

President Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

Trump to announce decision on Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday

The announcement is set to cap more than a year of deliberation and negotiation that has at time pitted Trump against some of his closest aides and key American allies.

8 years ago

Congressional candiates answer simple yes or no questions at the Democratic congressional debate for the new Pennsylvania 4th Congressional district. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
Pennsylvania

Forum of MontCo Democratic candidates for Congress yields few differences

With little more than a week before the Pennsylvania primary, Democrats running for the congressional seat for Montgomery County agree on most points.

8 years ago

U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sarah Palin (AP Photo/Matt York)
National Interest

McCain regrets picking Sarah Palin. Now he tells us.

John McCain, seriously ailing in Arizona, writes in his farewell book that he regrets picking Sarah Palin as his '08 running mate.

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
Elections
Pennsylvania

As Costello bows out, newcomers vie for Pa.’s redrawn 6th Congressional District

The 6th district has a longer history of electing both Democrats and Republican representatives, but it has gone Republican since 2002.

8 years ago

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Groups urge New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy to veto a nuclear subsidy bill. (Phil Gregory/WHYY)
New Jersey

Opponents of nuclear industry subsidy urge Gov. Murphy to veto bill

Without the subsidies, PSE&G said it might have to close its three nuclear plants in South Jersey.

8 years ago

The latest appointee to President Donald Trump's legal team and former Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani attends the Conference on Iran on Saturday in Washington, D
NPR

Giuliani: Trump might refuse Mueller subpoenas or take the fifth

Rudy Giuliani spent much of the weekend trying to clarify statements he made earlier concerning his client's legal troubles.

8 years ago

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