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Politics & Policy

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy wants towns to be able to establish charitable funds that pay for local services. Homeowners would get credits on their property tax bills for any amount they donate. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
New Jersey

N.J. considers easing tax burden by allowing residents to help pay for town services

Gov. Phil Murphy wants towns to be able to establish charitable funds to pay for local services. Homeowners would get credits on their property tax bills for contributions.

8 years ago

White House staff secretary Rob Porter, foreground, walks with White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, to board Marine One on the South Lawn as they leave the White House on Friday, Feb. 2, 2018.
National Interest

Scandal du jour: Team Trump shelters and defends wife-beater

Seriously now. Is it even conceivably possible that we can go a whole day without the Trump crew oozing fresh sleaze?

8 years ago

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech at Red Square in Moscow on May 9, 2017. Russian-backed efforts seen attempting to interfere in U.S. politics appear to be evolving.
NPR

Tracking Shows Russian Meddling Efforts Evolving Ahead Of 2018 Midterms

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sounded an alarm this week: The Russians are already meddling in the 2018 midterm elections.

8 years ago

White House chief of staff John Kelly and staff secretary Rob Porter leave the White House Friday. Porter resigned following domestic abuse allegations.
NPR

White House senior staffer resigns after domestic abuse allegations

Rob Porter, a White House staffer largely responsible for controlling the flow of information to President Trump, is resigning following allegations of domestic abuse.

8 years ago

A TV in the Capitol shows House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., giving a speech on the House floor Wednesday. Pelosi has been speaking for more than seven hours as a protest because negotiations over the future of the expiring Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program have stalled.
NPR

Pelosi protests stalled immigration talks with marathon House speech

Pelosi's marathon Senate-filibuster-style speech is a protest against the fact that negotiations over the future of the expiring DACA program have stalled.

8 years ago

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., (left), chats with Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, (right), at a congressional event in October 2017. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
NPR
Economy
National

Senators reach two-year budget deal

Senate leaders have reached a bipartisan budget agreement to increase military and domestic spending levels for two-years.

8 years ago

Soldiers march across Kim Il Sung Square during a military parade on Saturday, April 15, 2017, in Pyongyang, North Korea to celebrate the 105th birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung, the country's late founder and grandfather of current ruler Kim Jong Un.
National Interest

Salute the Leader! Rules and regs for the MAGA military parade

We've exclusively obtained the official list of parade tips for the multitudes who are very strongly encouraged to turn out for what is already by far the biggest most beautif

8 years ago

Radio Times
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Politics

Korean Peninsula primer / Dow Jones update

Guests: Mark Zandi, Frank Plantan  All eyes will be on the Korean Peninsula beginning Friday, a ...

Air Date: February 7, 2018

Listen 49:29
Tanks parade past President Trump, first lady Melania Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron, during a Bastille Day parade on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, on July 14.
NPR
Military

Trump reportedly wants Pentagon to stage military parade down Pennsylvania Ave.

The U.S. has long shied away from such displays of military prowess for fear of being compared to our Cold War enemies. But Trump seems to embrace this symbol of state power.

8 years ago

Radio Times
History
International
Military

Tensions on the Korean Peninsula: a primer

Guests: Frank Plantan  All eyes will be on the Korean Peninsula beginning Friday, as the Olympi ...

8 years ago

Listen 35:30
Gov. Tom Wolf gives his budget address at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018. (Chris Knight/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Pennsylvania

Wolf unveils moderate budget proposal; GOP says it’s a mixed bag

Instead of the roughly $1.5 billion deficit they had to contend with in the last budget, they're on track for a small surplus.

8 years ago

A bill advancing in the New Jersey Legislature would authorize the state’s police and firefighters unions to manage their own pension funds. (Alan Tu/WHYY)
New Jersey

New Jersey may give police, fire unions full control over pensions

Pat Colligan, the president of the New Jersey State Policemen’s Benevolent Association, said the policy change would help the unions improve the performance of their funds.

8 years ago

Ashley Lunkenheimer, a candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania's 7th District (Provided)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Elections
Pennsylvania

Former prosecutor takes a shot at Meehan’s congressional seat

Former federal prosecutor Ashley Lunkenheimer joins the crowded Democratic field in 7th Congressional District run.

8 years ago

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, center, the special counsel probing Russian interference in the 2016 election, arrives on Capitol Hill for a closed door meeting, Wednesday, June 21, 2017, in Washington.
National Interest

Trump’s lawyers want to keep their perjury machine away from Mueller

Of all the distasteful jobs in America — toll booth worker on a polluted highway, repairman of odorous septic tanks — the worst is to be a lawyer for a pathological liar.

8 years ago

Thousands of immigrants and supporters join the Defend DACA March in Los Angeles in September to oppose the President Trump's ordered end to DACA protections.
NPR
Immigration
National
Social Justice

NPR poll: 2-in-3 support legal status for DREAMers; majority oppose building a wall

Partisan dividing lines were sharp, the survey found, and clearly run throughout the immigration debate.

8 years ago

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