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Politics & Policy

 Members of New Jersey's National Guard are on their way to Texas to help those displaced by the flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey. (AP file photo)
New Jersey

More N.J. resources bound for Texas to aid in recovery

New Jersey is providing more manpower and supplies to help with the emergency response to flooding in Texas caused by Tropical Storm Harv ...

8 years ago

 Lawmakers heard from several panels — from both inside, and outside state government — on how the unemployment compensation funding situation is affecting people, and how it can be improved. (Katie Meyer/WITF)

Calls for Pa. jobless program funding, but few specifics at hearing

More than eight months after a fight over funding for Pennsylvania’s jobless program, the Wolf administration says the program is still ...

8 years ago

Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf (AP, file)

Tension rises between Pa. House GOP and Wolf; state’s general fund teeters near zero

The main fund Pennsylvania uses to pay its bills would have hit zero this week, if not for a $700 million transfer from the state’s Mot ...

8 years ago

 Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is shown in Corpus Christi, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. The Republicans of New York and New Jersey are pledging unconditional support for those devastated by Hurricane Harvey in Texas, but their resentment lingers. As historic floods wreaked havoc across the Southwest on Tuesday, Northeastern Republicans recalled with painful detail the days after Superstorm Sandy ravaged their region in 2012. At the time, the Texas congressional delegation, led by Cruz, overwhelmingly opposed a disaster relief package they said was packed with wasteful spending. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
National Interest

GOP credo: Big Guvmint is bad until red states need help

It’s an old story, freshened anew by Hurricane Harvey: Republicans profess to hate Big Guvmint as a matter of principle — until c ...

8 years ago

New Jersey

Ted Cruz who opposed aid for Sandy victims now thinks Texas deserves it

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is calling Ted Cruz and other Texas lawmakers “hypocrites” for their votes against ...

8 years ago

 President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive on Air Force One at Corpus Christi International Airport in Corpus Christi, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, for briefings on Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)

Trump’s turn to face tricky politics of natural disasters

George W. Bush never recovered from his flyover of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation. Barack Obama got a bipartisan boost late in his ...

8 years ago

U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, who favors a reversal of the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, plans to make that a campaign issue in his quest to unseat U.S. Sen. Bob Casey. (loubarletta.com)

Pennsylvania Rep. Barletta set for Senate run against Casey

U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, a former small-city mayor in Pennsylvania who shot to national prominence by trying to combat illegal immigration ...

8 years ago

International
Military

South Korea says North fires ballistic missile over Japan

South Korea’s military says North Korea fired a ballistic missile from its capital Pyongyang toward the sea between the Korean Peni ...

8 years ago

  (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

On ‘Radio Times’: Menendez trial has national implications

The corruption trial of New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez is underway, the results of which could have huge implications for national polit ...

8 years ago

Delaware Attorney General Matt Denn has issued a broad subpoena seeking Catholic Diocese of Wilmington records on possible sexual abuse by priest in recent decades. (WHYY, file)
Delaware

Delaware AG Matt Denn not running for re-election

After 14 years in elective office, Delaware Attorney General Matt Denn will return to the private sector when his term is over next year. ...

8 years ago

 Scene from an earlier video ad opposing the Philadelphia soda tax. (Ax the Tax YouTube video)
Philadelphia

Opponents of Philly drink tax launch ad challenging Bloomberg commercial

Another round of commercials is circulating in the battle over Philadelphia’s sweetened beverage tax. “The tax is crea ...

8 years ago

A supporter of LGBT rights holds up an 'equality flag' on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 26, 2017, during an event held by Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass. in response to President Donald Trump's declaration that he wants transgender people barred from serving in the U.S. military 'in any capacity,' citing 'tremendous medical costs and disruption.' (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
Military
National
Social Justice

ACLU sues Trump over transgender military ban

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender individuals joining ...

8 years ago

 In this Jan. 26, 2016, photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is joined by Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio at a campaign event in Marshalltown, Iowa. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
National Interest
Law
National

Trump’s craven Joe Apraio pardon, translated

On Friday night Trump pardoned Joe Apraio, the racist Arizona sheriff whose “pervasive culture of disriminatory bias against Latino ...

8 years ago

Protesters gather at City Hall in support of undocumented immigrants. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Immigration
Kids
Law

Trump expected to decide soon on fate of young immigrants

After months of delays, President Donald Trump is expected to decide soon on the fate of young immigrants who were brought into the count ...

8 years ago

Bob Menendez
Radio Times
New Jersey

N.J. politics roundup

Guests: Joe Hernandez, Ryan Hutchins, Brigid Harrison The corruption trial of New Jersey’s Democratic Senator, ...

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