
Politics & Policy
Airport detentions spur protest in Philly, across nation [photos]
Updated: Sat., January 28, 11:10 p.m. As news of the detentions spread, protesters gathered at airports ...
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Two Pa. GOP Congressmen outspoken against Trump immigration ban
Updated: Sun. January 29, 2017, 10:10 a.m. Two Pennsylvania GOP congressmen have broken with President T ...
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Charge dropped for journalist arrested in Trump protest
Prosecutors have dropped the felony rioting charge filed against a journalist who was arrested after protesters began breaking windows in ...
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Health care must be provided communally
Every once in a while, when I write something in defense of the Affordable Care Act, or point out that repealing it will lead 1.1 million ...
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‘Unprecedented’ numbers of Pa. women from both parties looking to run for office
At 5:30 in the morning of November 9, 2016, Natasha Taylor-Smith crept into her 13-year-old daughter’s bedroom. She pi ...
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ListenTrump to GOP lawmakers: ‘Our chance to achieve great change’
President Donald Trump on Thursday rallied fellow Republicans who control the White House and Congress for the first time in more than a ...
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Protesters gather in Philadelphia to meet GOP congressional retreat
They marched for the Affordable Care Act and women’s reproductive rights, and against mass incarceration and racism. They chanted again ...
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Listen‘I did not hold this against her’: key prosecution witness in Pa. Sen. Farnese trial
As federal prosecutors describe it, Democratic city committeeman Stephen Huntington’s bid to become a ward leader was spoiled ...
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Trump admin orders EPA contract freeze and media blackout
The Trump administration has instituted what it described as a temporary media blackout at the Environmental Protection Agency and barred ...
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Mayor Kenney urging protesters at RNC retreat to be peaceful
A Republican Congressional retreat will be held in Philadelphia over the next few days (Weds-Fri). The mayor is urging peaceful protests. ...
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ListenTrump acts to advance Keystone XL, Dakota Access pipelines
President Donald Trump signed executive actions Tuesday to advance construction of the huge Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines, ...
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Don’t dismiss Saturday’s march as ‘thoughtless excitement’ of ‘angry women’
When you step onto a subway train, there are a lot of things you could smell that are worse than Sharpies, so on Saturday morning, I didn ...
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For marchers from Pennsylvania, a plan for translating personal pain into action
Sitting on a bus headed south on I-95 Saturday morning, 50-year-old Cheryl Sabb has to think about whether she’s ever participated ...
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N.J. law would require tax returns from presidential candidates
Two Democratic New Jersey lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require that future presidential candidates release their tax ...
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Estimates peg D.C. Women’s March at half million; thousands in Philly, Trenton; hundreds in Del.
Updated: Sat. January 21, 2017, 7:40 p.m. ...
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