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In 1971, John and Bonnie Raines and six other activists broke into the FBI offices in Media in order to expose the bureau's effort to suppress dissent. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

If all went according to plan, Raines and fellow anti-war activists would pull off a burglary that would go down in history as exposing J ...

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is shown speaking to aides on her campaign plane, in White Plains, N.Y., Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, file)

National Interest

Hillary is right about the mainstream media

Hillary Clinton’s new cri de coeur discomfits the many Democrats who yearn to put 2016 in the rea ...

9 years ago

Erie public school advocates rally in the state capitol in 2016 when Jay Badams (center) was superintendent. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)

Fair funding advocates decry Pa. leaders for playing politics with specialty school money

For years in Pennsylvania, school funding coming from state government was criticized as being irrational, unpredictable, and too-tied to ...

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Members of Service Employees International Union march near City Hall in Philadelphia. (AP File Photo/Matt Rourke)

Keystone Crossroads

Business

Government Accountability

Pennsylvania

Collective bargaining bills would apply public records, open meetings laws to contract negotiations

Some state lawmakers are pushing a package of bills that they say would make contract negotiations between government agencies and public ...

9 years ago

Firefighters gather during a door-to-door survey of a neighborhood that was hit by floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey in Houston, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017. The first responders are checking homes for any emergency needs of residents as the cleanup commences after the historic storm. (LM Otero/AP Photo)

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Public Safety

Union: Thousands of firefighters didn’t work during Harvey

Thousands of Houston firefighters were told to stay home at the height of Harvey’s flooding even as calls for help overwhelmed 911 ...

9 years ago

Pa. Capitol Building, Harrisburg. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)

Business

Economy

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania delays payments as general fund balance nears zero

Pennsylvania is putting off paying over a billion dollars to insurers who administer Medicaid benefits, because its main bank account is ...

9 years ago

A federal judge bars Attorney General Jeff Sessions from following through — at least for now — with his threat to withhold public safety grant money to Chicago, Philadelphia and other

Immigration

Philadelphia

Judge: Sessions can’t deny grant money for ‘sanctuary cities’

Attorney General Jeff Sessions can’t follow through — at least for now — with his threat to withhold public safety grant money ...

9 years ago

U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey stands in a conference room at his Philadelphia office. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Sen. Pat Toomey a key player in Trump tax overhaul effort

As President Donald Trump and Congress undertake an overhaul of the U.S. tax code this fall, Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey is likely ...

9 years ago

K-12

New Jersey

Four years after state takeover, Christie boasts about progress in Camden schools

About four and a half years after his administration took control of the Camden school district, Gov. Chris Christie returned to the city ...

9 years ago

People walk past a public TV screen broadcasting news of North Korea's launch of missile, in Tokyo, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. North Korea launched an intermediate-range missile that flew over Japan in its longest-ever flight on Friday, showing that leader Kim Jong Un is defiantly pushing to bolster his weapons programs despite U.S.-led international pressure. (Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)

NewsWorks Tonight

International

Gallup: Americans less sure a diplomatic solution can be reached with North Korea than in past years

NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller sits down for his weekly conversation with Gallup’s Frank Newport to talk about trends in U.S. o ...

9 years ago

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Elections

New Jersey

Poll: Only 20 percent of N.J. voters would re-elect Menendez

Even if Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey is acquitted of federal corruption charges, a Quinnipiac University poll finds he ...

9 years ago

Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway speaks as Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price looks on, at the Mirmont Treatment Center Friday Sept.15, 2017, in Media, Pa. Conway and Price toured the center for drug and alcohol addiction recovery and discussed the opiod crisis. (Jacqueline Larma/AP Photo)

Elections

Medicine

Public Health

On Delaware County visit, Trump emissaries point to progress on opioids

President Donald Trump campaigned on lifting the United States from the depths of the opioid epidemic. Amid criticism that his adm ...

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New Pa. Senate candidate among 900 Republican women meeting in Philly

The National Federation of Republican women is meeting this week in Philadelphia, bringing about 900 grass-roots GOP activists together t ...

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In this Jan. 1, 1966, file photo, a paratrooper of the 173rd U.S. Airborne brigade crouches with women and children in a muddy canal as intense Viet Cong sniper fire temporarily pins down his unit near Bao Trai in Vietnam. (AP Photo/Horst Faas, file)

Speak Easy

History

Military

‘It’s hard to take pride in a war that, by any definition, we lost’

“The Vietnam War” heaps ineptness upon ignorance upon immorality by policymakers and the military brass — all gui ...

9 years ago

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., the only African-American Republican serving in the Senate, talks to reporters about his plan to meet with President Donald Trump to discuss race and Trump's widely criticized response to last month's protests and racial violence in Charlottesville, Va., at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Interest

National

Trump, Sessions, and stupidity lessons

Mark Twain reputedly said, “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. ...

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