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Politics & Policy

Gun shop owner Tiffany Teasdale-Causer returns a Ruger AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, the same model, though in gray rather than black, used by the shooter in a Texas church massacre two days earlier, to it's place on a wall with dozens of other semi-automatic rifles, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017, in Lynnwood, Wash. Gun-rights supporters have seized on the Texas church massacre as proof of the well-worn saying that the best answer to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Gun-control advocates, meanwhile, say the tragedy shows once more that it is too easy to get a weapon in the U.S. (Elaine Thompson/AP Photo)
National

House panel takes up bill expanding gun owners’ rights

A House committee moved forward on a Republican bill to expand gun owners' rights — the first legislation since mass shootings in Las Vegas and Texas killed over 80 people.

8 years ago

Close-up of Congressman Bob Brady
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Elections
Philadelphia

Charges now unlikely for Brady in probe of $90,000 transfer to political rival

It appears U.S. Rep. Bob Brady of Philadelphia may skate on the investigation into his 2012 primary opponent's withdrawal from the campaign.

8 years ago

Listen 4:40
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf stopped the practice of accepting gifts among people under his authority when he took office three years ago, but that does not apply to state legislators and other elected state officials. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo, file)
Law
Pennsylvania

Pa.’s highest court considering governor’s appeal in home care case

Pa.’s Supreme Court is deciding whether Governor Tom Wolf overstepped his authority with an executive order letting home healthcare workers under a union-like structure.

8 years ago

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has earned criticism from Democrats and some Republicans for barring scientists who have received grants from the EPA from serving as agency advisers. (Susan Walsh/AP Photo)
Delaware
Environment
New Jersey
Pennsylvania

Philly-area lawmakers question changes at EPA, Department of Energy

Many Democrats and some in the GOP have panned Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt's move to bar scientists who've gotten EPA grants from serving as advisers.

8 years ago

Listen 5:17
President Donald Trump walks away from the podium after speaking in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House
National Interest

Now Trump thinks that his voice is not his voice

We need only ask ourselves whether a guy who retroactively tells himself that his voice is not his voice should be dealing with North Korea's ICBMs.

8 years ago

Radio Times
History
Religion

The rise of Nazis; in Germany and in America

Guests: Thomas Childers, Arnie Bernstein On Sunday, The New York Times published an article about a low- ...

Air Date: November 29, 2017

Listen 48:59
(photo by Hillary Linardopolous)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Elections
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

Philly re-entry group’s vans bear ads for Pa. gubernatorial candidate

A nonprofit re-entry program in Southwest Philadelphia has vans advertising the campaign of a Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor. Is it legal?

8 years ago

Tax bill passes budget committee
PBS
National
Taxes

Watch: Tax bill passes budget committee, but fate in the Senate is unclear

8 years ago

PBS
International
Military

North Korea just fired its first missile in more than 2 months. Here’s what we know

8 years ago

Landon Valentine of Beaver Falls is among the many residents of Pennsylvania's 12th that are perplexed by the state's congressional map. (Virginia Alvino Young/ 90.5 WESA)
Keystone Crossroads
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania

‘It just looks weird, know what I mean?’ Efforts to reform redistricting in Pa.

They at least two things in common. They’re all represented by Republican Keith Rothfus, and they’re all perplexed by the map of Pennsylvania’s 12th.

8 years ago

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., along with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., at an Oval Office meeting with President Trump in September. The top Democrats have pulled out of a similar meeting planned for Tuesday afternoon.
NPR
Economy
National
Taxes

Top Democrats pull out of planned meeting with Trump

8 years ago

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2015, file photo, James O'Keefe, President of Project Veritas Action, waits to be introduced during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington.
National Interest

Fake news flameout: Exposing a crackpot conservative plot

In the annals of conservative cons, this saga is truly a classic.

8 years ago

A federal judge has stopped Pennsylvania lawmakers from trying to take surplus money from the JUA to help balance a state budget gap. (AP file photo)
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Politics

Judge halts Pa.’s attempt to take funds from insurer

This is the second year Pennsylvania lawmakers have tried to take surplus money from the Joint Underwriting Association to help balance perennial budget gaps.

8 years ago

Radio Times
Business
Politics

The shifting media landscape of the Trump era

Guests: Cory Doctorow, Andy Kroll, Meg James There are a lot of changes in the media these days. We’ll begin to ...

Air Date: November 28, 2017

Listen 49:16
Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney departs after a television interview at the White House in September.
NPR
Economy

Mulvaney shows up for work at consumer watchdog group, as leadership feud deepens

The dispute has left CFPB staff "scratching their heads over who was in charge," as Reuters reports.

8 years ago

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