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Politics & Policy

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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In this file photo, Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa. listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with lawmakers about trade policy in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo, file)
NewsWorks Tonight
Immigration
Philadelphia
Policing

Trump in Toomey’s corner on penalizing Philly, other ‘sanctuary cities’

'I think they are talking to a certain audience within the country,' says Congressman Dwight Evans, a Philadelphia Democrat.

8 years ago

Listen 4:27
President Donald Trump answers questions as he leaves the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 23, 2018, after speaking about the $1.3 trillion spending bill. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo)
NPR
National

Trump signs $1.3 trillion spending bill, averting government shutdown

"I say to Congress I will never sign another bill like this again," Trump said.

8 years ago

Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton
National Interest

John Bolton and the unlearned lesson of Iraq

Bolton was part of the mendacious crew that gave us the "Mission Accomplished" banner.

8 years ago

A student from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla., attends a news conference about gun violence
The Philadelphia Experiment
National
Public Safety
Social Justice

The success of March for Our Lives will show up on November ballots

The March for Our Lives takes place on Saturday, but the lessons from this latest American movement are taking place right now. 

8 years ago

(AP Photo/John Locher)
Delaware
Public Safety

Bill to ban assault-style weapons introduced in Delaware

Legislators in Delaware have introduced legislation that would ban the sale, purchase, transfer and certain possession of assault-style weapons in the state.

8 years ago

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney speaks at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017.
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Government Accountability
Philadelphia

City fund previously accused of loose spending practices gets a new board

Mayor Jim Kenney has named a new nine-member board for the Fund for Philadelphia, two of whose past chairs were accused of misspending

8 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy in WBGO's studios for the first episode of 'Ask Governor Murphy'
New Jersey

Ask Governor Murphy: Episode 1

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy took calls Thursday night on a new public radio program produced by WHYY, WBGO-Newark, and WNYC-New York.

8 years ago

Listen 58:59
Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster looks on as President Donald Trump announces him as his national security adviser at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., on February 20, 2017.
NPR

Trump national security adviser H.R. McMaster to resign, be replaced by John Bolton

National security adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster is leaving the Trump administration, the president announced on Twitter Thursday evening.

8 years ago

Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced a deal that would allow billions of dollars in federal disaster recovery loans to start flowing to the hurricane-devastated island.
NPR

Feds and Puerto Rico reach deal allowing disaster recovery loans to start flowing

"We've reached an agreement that is beneficial both for the taxpayer and for the people of Puerto Rico," Rossello said shortly after meeting with Mnuchin

8 years ago

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