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Politics & Policy

 New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a political ally of President Donald Trump, says the president's statements blaming
National
New Jersey
Race & Ethnicity

Christie raps Trump for blaming Charlottesville violence on ‘both sides’

President Donald Trump’s comments that both sides were equally responsible for the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, were a mi ...

9 years ago

 President Donald Trump, (left), and Liberty University president, Jerry Falwell Jr., (right), during commencement ceremonies at the school in Lynchburg, Va., Saturday, May 13, 2017. (Steve Helber/AP Photo)
National Interest
National

Trump’s Sunday flunky: ‘He says what is in his heart’

Team Trump (minus Steve Bannon) was so hunkered in its bunker yesterday that when “Meet the Press” and the other Sunday shows ...

9 years ago

 Lawmakers are having trouble deciding whether to merge two major state departments. (AP Photo)
Pennsylvania

Pa. Dept. of Human Services gets a new secretary, but its future is still uncertain

Monday is state Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller’s first day leading the commonwealth’s sprawling Department of Human Service ...

9 years ago

 In this file photo, Hope Hicks, then press secretary for President-elect Donald Trump's campaign, arrives at Trump Tower in New York, Monday, Jan. 16, 2017. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)
National

Trump’s new communications director Hope Hicks isn’t new to his ways

Others tried without much success, and now the job of keeping President Donald Trump on message has fallen to Hope Hicks, a young aide wh ...

9 years ago

 Billionaire investor Carl Icahn and President Donald Trump pictured in this composite photo (Mark Lennihan and Alex Brandon/AP Photos, file)
National

Trump adviser Carl Icahn resigned ahead of negative magazine story

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who resigned Friday from an unpaid post as President Donald Trump’s adviser on deregulation effort ...

9 years ago

 Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski arrives at the federal building in Philadelphia, Thursday, July 27, 2017. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Law
Pennsylvania

Allentown council amplifies efforts to oust indicted mayor

The city council in Allentown, Pennsylvania, is taking additional steps to remove its indicted mayor from office. Federal authorit ...

9 years ago

Trenton state Capitol building. (WHYY file photo)
Law
New Jersey
Taxes

‘Millionaire’s tax’ likely to pass, if Dems hold Legislature and win gov’s race

Political analysts believe it’s likely Democratic gubernatorial nominee Phil Murphy’s proposed tax increases will be approved ...

9 years ago

 McKeesport is one of few municipalities that have used Act 12, a law that offers a different way to privatize water systems in Pennsylvania. (Image courtesy of the Municipal Authority of the City of McKeesport website)
Keystone Crossroads
Explainers
Law
Pennsylvania

Act 12, explained: Customers more likely to see rates rise with Pa.’s new water privatization process

Pennsylvania is already known among water companies and their shareholders as being a good state for doing business. And now, it ...

9 years ago

City Councilwoman Helen Gym's tweets helped renew the battle over the statue honoring Frank Rizzo. (Emma Lee/NewsWorks)
Philadelphia
Public Spaces
Social Justice

Philly Councilwoman Helen Gym unflinching in calls to remove Rizzo statue

Philadelphia Councilwoman Helen Gym doesn’t mince words when she describes how she feels about  Frank Rizzo. After the viol ...

9 years ago

 In this file photo, Steve Bannon, then senior advisor to then President-elect Donald Trump, makes a call outside Trump Tower on Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, in New York. (Kevin Hagen/AP Photo)
National

Strategist Steve Bannon leaves Trump’s turbulent White House

Steve Bannon, a forceful but divisive presence in President Donald Trump’s White House, is leaving. Trump accepted Bannon ...

9 years ago

U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., is shown speaking to the Sevier County Chamber of Commerce in Sevierville, Tenn., on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig, file)
National Interest
National

Corker on Trump: ‘He needs to take stock of who he is’

At this moment of moral reckoning for the Republican party, it’s still rare to find an elected leader who’s willing to expose ...

9 years ago

 The Atlantic Ocean off the coast of New Jersey, as depicted in Google Earth.
Energy
Environment
New Jersey

Congressman Frank Pallone warns that ocean drilling could lead to an oil spill

New Jersey officials are standing up against President Donald Trump’s offshore oil drilling proposal. Congressman Frank Pall ...

9 years ago

 Rep. Lisa Blunt-Rochester speaking to supporters at a reception at the U.S. Capitol. (Paul Parmelee/WHYY)
Delaware
National

New voice in Congress hails from Delaware, calls for leadership

The small state of Delaware has only one representative in the U.S. House — and a new one at that. Lisa Blunt Rochester boldly b ...

9 years ago

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 Some environmental leaders and government officials announced their opposition Thursday to Trump’s proposed EPA cuts. (Phil Gregory/WHYY)
Economy
Environment
New Jersey

Environmentalists in New Jersey urge Congress not to cut the EPA’s budget

Environmental groups and New Jersey officials are urging Congress to reject President Donald Trump’s proposed 30 percent cut in the ...

9 years ago

 A statue of Jefferson Davis, (left), is on display in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 24, 2015. The statue was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol by Mississippi in 1931. Davis served the nation in many positions before being appointed president of the Confederate States during the Civil War, including Secretary of War, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and a member of the U.S. Senate.  (Susan Walsh/AP Photo)
National
Public Spaces

Pelosi calls for removal of Confederate statues from Capitol

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is calling for the removal of Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol as the contentious debate over ...

9 years ago

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