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Politics & Policy

This undated file photo, location unknown, shows Linda Brown Smith. Smith was a third-grader when her father started a class-action suit in 1951 of the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, which led to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision against school segregation. (AP Photo, File)
K-12

Kansas girl at center of 1954 school segregation ruling dies

Linda Brown, the Kansas girl at the center of the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down racial segregation in schools, has died ...

8 years ago

A man holds a sign as he stands outside the War Memorial, near a group of Second Amendment advocates gathered in opposition to about a half-dozen gun control bills expected to get a vote in the Assembly on Monday, March 26, 2018, near the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J.
New Jersey
Public Safety

New Jersey lawmakers advance bills to tighten gun laws

New Jersey's Democrat-led Assembly passed six measures aimed at strengthening the state's already-strict gun laws.

8 years ago

Philadelphia Energy Solutions, the largest refiner on the East Coast, was relieved of some of its obligations to buy renewable fuel credits in an agreement with the EPA. (Peter DeCarlo)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

PES bankruptcy plan approved by court

8 years ago

President Trump speaks about the recently passed spending bill at the White House on Friday. Trump threatened to veto the bill before later signing it.
NPR

Is this any way to drive an omnibus? 10 questions about what just happened

Many of the president's most ardent supporters were taken by surprise. Not a few felt betrayed.

8 years ago

This image released by CBS News shows Stormy Daniels, left, during an interview with Anderson Cooper which will air on Sunday, March 25, 2018, on
National Interest

The political fallout from Trump’s dark and Stormy night

What matters most is the political fallout that threatens to imperil the GOP in the November congressional midterms. Put simply, it’s a Harvey Weinstein kind of thing.

8 years ago

President Trump walks across the South Lawn of the White House on Sunday after returning from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla
NPR
International

U.S. expels 60 Russian officials, closes consulate in Seattle

The move follows the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in the English city of Salisbury on March 4.

8 years ago

Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin testifies during a U.S. House hearing on March 15. Shulkin has been criticized for taking his wife along on a 2017 official trip to Europe
NPR

Why Trump appointees refer to ‘optics’ when discussing spending scandals

By comparison, Battistella said, regretting the optics is just an updated way to avoid the real subject. "I'm sorry if you were offended. It's a new way of saying that."

8 years ago

Stormy Daniels detailed her alleged affair, and subsequent non-disclosure agreement with President Trump in an interview with Anderson Cooper that aired Sunday
NPR

Stormy Daniels shares graphic details about alleged affair with Trump

Daniels is one of two women suing to speak freely about past relationships with Trump.

8 years ago

File photo: New Jersey State Capitol building in Trenton. (Alan Tu/WHYY)
Elections
New Jersey

New Jersey mulling online voter registration

State Sen. Joe Vitale says his bill would automatically put residents on voter registration rolls when they apply for or renew their driver's license.

8 years ago

U.S. Rep. Ryan Costello, who represents Pennsylvania's 6th District, is dropping his re-election bid. (AP file photo)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Pennsylvania
Politics

Costello the latest Philly-area Rep. to drop re-election bid

Chester County U.S. Rep Ryan Costello is reportedly withdrawing from his re-election bid.

8 years ago

Conor Lamb, the Democratic candidate for the March 13 special election in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District
Elections
Pennsylvania

GOP’s congressional stronghold is Democrats’ source of hope

It's been seven head-spinning months.

8 years ago

In this Oct. 12, 2017 photo, the hand of Arthur Jemmy, bottom, is held by his wife, Silfia, as they sit and talk at The Reformed Church of Highland Park, where they are taking sanctuary to avoid deportation  in Highland Park, N.J. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Immigration
New Jersey

Murphy wants $2.1M to help N.J. immigrants with legal aid

Poor immigrants facing deportation in New Jersey could get access to legal aid under a $2.1 million cash infusion in Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy's proposed budget.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas G. Saylor, a Republican, has called the push for impeaching his Democratic colleagues “an attack upon an independent judiciary.”(WHYY file photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Elections
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania

GOP leaders throw cold water on plan to impeach Pa. high court justices

Some Pennsylvania House Republicans urged impeachment after the Democratic-majority state Supreme Court declared the state’s congressional map unconstitutional and redrew it.

8 years ago

A beach is eroded Thursday, March 8, 2018, in Mantoloking, N.J. a day after the second coastal storm in less than a week hit the area. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
New Jersey

‘Minor erosion’ reported at most New Jersey beaches after latest nor’easter

New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection says 55 of the 66 beaches it surveyed had minor erosion, while 10 had moderate erosion.

8 years ago

A bicyclist makes his way west on Market Street, protected from the heavy wet snow of the latest nor'easter by an oversized umbrella. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
National

Acknowledging global warming still a partisan issue, polling finds

NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller sits down for his weekly conversation with Gallup's Frank Newport to talk about trends in U.S. opinion.

8 years ago

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