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 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)
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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)
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‘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 ...

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 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)
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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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 Left; White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks during a news briefing at the White House, in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, file) Right: Jemele Hill attends ESPN: The Party 2017 held on Friday, Feb. 3, 2017, in Houston, Texas. (Photo by John Salangsang/Invision/AP, file)
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Since when is it a ‘fireable offense’ to knock a president?

There I was yesterday, all set to spoon out a dollop of praise for Trump, who reportedly plans to sign a newly passed congressional resol ...

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Novelist Nicole Krauss; the Caribbean post-Irma

Guests: Luis Ferré-Sadurní, Nicole Krauss NICOLE KRAUSS, author of t ...

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Challenger says Rep. Brady paid debt to get him out of 2012 race

The man who federal authorities say agreed to drop his 2012 Democratic primary challenge of U.S. Rep. Bob Brady in return for $90,000 in ...

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 Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., (left), accompanied by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., (right), speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017, to unveil their Medicare for All legislation to reform health care. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)
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Booker backs universal single-payer health care bill

Sen. Cory Booker, D-NJ, is throwing his support behind legislation to offer universal single-payer health care to all Americans, saying i ...

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Pa. House cobbles together new budget plan, light on recurring dollars

After negotiations briefly stalled Tuesday, the House is on the verge of passing a GOP-authored plan to balance a $2.2 billion dollar gap ...

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 The city and Wilmington and Delaware's two leading universities want to work together to benefit each other. (File/WHYY)
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Wilmington, UD, Del. State propose ‘unprecedented pact’

The city of Wilmington and Delaware’s two leading universities have agreed to forge what officials are calling an “unpreceden ...

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Pennsylvania House GOP delays vote on budget-balancing plan

Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives is putting off preliminary votes on measures designed to plug state government’s $2.2 ...

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 In a Dec. 16, 2015 file photo, Jazmin Holloway sits below a mural depicting Freddie Gray at the intersection of his arrest, in Baltimore. (Patrick Semansky/AP Photo, File)

DOJ won’t bring charges against officers in Baltimore’s Freddie Gray case

The U.S. Department of Justice won’t bring federal charges against six police officers involved in the arrest and death of Freddie ...

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 Elizabeth Fielder announces her campaign to unseat state Rep. Bill Keller in the 184th district of South Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Former reporter Fiedler running for Pa. State House, hoping to unseat Keller in South Philly

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Former White House Senior Adviser Steve Bannon, pictured here in this Monday, June 12, 2017, file photo. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)

On ‘Radio Times’: The Bannon effect

Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon dished on some of the infighting that’s been going on among the GOP since the elec ...

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 Hillary Clinton speaks at AFL-CIO convention in Philadelphia in April 2016. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Hey, Hillary, we already know what happened

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