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Politics & Policy

Diego Rios, 23, of Rockville, Md., rallies in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, outside of the White House, in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. President Donald Trump will end a program that has protected hundreds of thousands of young immigrants brought into the country illegally as children and call for Congress to find a legislative solution. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the changes Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Radio Times
Immigration

DACA and immigration reform negotiations

Guests: Olivia Vasquez, Alan Gomez, Sarah Stillman A lot happened around immigration policy this week. Congressio ...

Air Date: January 12, 2018

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U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD), holds a bipartisan meeting with legislators on immigration reform on January 9, 2018.  REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)
PBS NewsHour
Immigration

Trump asks why U.S. would want to admit more immigrants from ‘s***hole countries’

Trump made the remark in a meeting as Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., was explaining the outlines of an agreement that six senators had reached.

8 years ago

Francisco Moran is the Mayor of the City of Camden. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
New Jersey

Camden’s new mayor foresees a renaissance

Lifelong resident Frank Moran, the former City Council president, is optimistic about the city's future as he begins work as mayor.

8 years ago

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Like several of his GOP colleagues in Congress, U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Bucks, is trying to maintain some distance from President Donald Trump. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Addiction
New Jersey
Pennsylvania

In Congress, heroin task force has ambitious plans for 2018

This year the task force is adding eight bills to its agenda.

8 years ago

Listen 4:23
FILE - In this Friday, May 9, 2003 file photo, angler Andy Hails, of Montgomery, Ala., checks the fishing lines on his boat as he trolls the Gulf of Mexico near a natural gas well off the Alabama coast near Gulf Shores, Ala. President Obama announced his new offshore drilling policy Wednesday, March 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)
Delaware
Energy
Environment

Delaware threatens legal action against offshore drilling plan

State Attorney General Matt Denn sent a letter to U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to formally object to the federal plan to allow oil drilling off Delaware’s coast.

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)
Elections
Pennsylvania

Pa. House Leader Dave Reed isn’t saying no to a congressional bid

He’s eyeing the western Pennsylvania seat that is being vacated by Republican Bill Shuster.

8 years ago

Cristina Jimenez speaks to demonstrators urging the Democratic Party to protect the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act (DACA) rally outside the office of California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein in Los Angeles Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018. California has the largest number of people who are affected by the law, also known as the Dream Act. (Reed Saxon/AP Photo)
Immigration
Law
National

GOP senator says lawmakers reach immigration compromise

The group has been working for months in hopes of securing legislation to extend DACA.

8 years ago

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Down the Shore
New Jersey

N.J. legislator plants seeds for recreational marijuana legalization

At the Shore, Asbury Park's governing body says it supports recreational sales, while Point Pleasant Beach's leaders do not.

8 years ago

The House on Thursday agreed to reauthorize a controversial spying bill after President Trump — whose administration supports it — blasted the measure on Twitter. (Zach Gibson/Getty Images)
NPR
International
Law

Controversial spy law passes house after shots from Trump, who then supported it

A controversial spying law survived in the House after a kerfuffle on Thursday.

8 years ago

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.
National Interest

Goodbye, Darrell Issa, and good riddance

For sheer funniness, lets recap his tenure as a crackpot sleuth of nonexistent scandals.

8 years ago

Radio Times

Reflecting on #MeToo

Guests: Stephanie Coontz, Dahlia Lithwick It has been widely acknowledged that the outrage and activism that has ...

Air Date: January 11, 2018

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Lieutenant Governor Mike Stack wants the state Supreme Court to replace Pennsylvania's Congressional map (top) with one created by an expert witness (bottom) for plaintiffs in a lawsuit claiming the current map is an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. (Graphic designed by Lindsay Lazarski/Keystone Crossroads. Images from the Office of Lt. Gov. Mike Stack)
Keystone Crossroads
Elections
Government Accountability
Law
Pennsylvania
Politics

Redistricting reform proponents make last ditch arguments ahead of Pa. Supreme Court proceedings

Next week, the state Supreme Court will hear a lawsuit claiming Pennsylvania’s congressional map is an ...

8 years ago

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey wants the state to be exempted from a Trump administration plan for expanded offshore oil and gas drilling. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Energy
Environment
New Jersey

N.J. wants out of Trump plan for offshore drilling

U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has removed Florida’s waters from consideration for expanded offshore oil and gas drilling — and New Jersey wants the same exemption.

8 years ago

Guthrie Conygham, manger of ACCT’s off-site adoption unit, holds Missy, an adoptable kitten, at City Hall. (Kyrie Greenberg for WHYY)
Philadelphia

New Philly coalition aims to end euthanization of pets at shelter

Last year, 18,000 animals were surrendered to the Philadelphia shelter.

8 years ago

AP photo.
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Christie denounces oil, gas drilling off N.J. coast

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has reaffirmed his opposition to the Trump administration's proposal for drilling off the New Jersey coastline.

8 years ago

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