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Government Accountability
Rocky governance persists in tiny Pa. borough that hired Tamir Rice’s killer
A year after Tioga hired the police officer who killed Tamir Rice, borough officials who promised changes struggle with persisting issues.
12 months ago
The wait for U.S. passports is creating travel purgatory and snarling summer plans
A much-feared backup of U.S passport applications has smashed into a wall of government bureaucracy as worldwide travel rebounds toward record pre-pandemic levels.
1 year ago
During the three years since George Floyd’s murder, the law enforcement lobby succeeded in eroding the initial bill’s expansive provisions.
1 year ago
The report identified challenges that made it hard for some groups to complete their work — but city leaders promise to fix those problems before the next round of grants.
1 year ago
Penn State, Pitt, and others get hundreds of millions in taxpayer funds. Tracking it is a challenge
Transparency into how Pennsylvania’s state-related universities spend annual appropriations is limited.
1 year ago
How Pennsylvania has (and hasn’t) spent billions of COVID-19 stimulus dollars (FULL LIST)
Pennsylvania received $7.3 billion in state and local pandemic relief funding from the American Rescue Plan Act and had spent more than $5.6 billion as of March.
1 year ago
Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law is upheld again, as court rules against Republican challenge
It is the latest of several refusals by a state court to invalidate Pennsylvania's 2019 mail-in voting law, enacted barely months before the COVID-19 pandemic began.
1 year ago
Supreme Court upholds North Carolina ruling that congressional districts violated state law
The Supreme Court has ruled that North Carolina’s top court did not overstep its bounds in striking down a congressional districting plan as excessively partisan under state l
1 year ago
Audio captures Trump discussing ‘highly confidential’ documents
The recording, from a July 2021 interview Trump gave at his Bedminster, New Jersey, is a critical piece of evidence in special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump.
1 year ago
A secret mission to dump radioactive cargo in Atlantic Ocean tells history of nuclear tests
Answer to decades-long mystery uncovered in the archive at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia.
1 year ago
Listen 16:09House opens impeachment probe of Biden after GOP leaders head off push to vote now
The House of Representatives approved a resolution referring articles of impeachment against President Biden to two committees — slowing down a push from House conservatives.
1 year ago
Hunter Biden federal court date set in Wilmington on tax dodging, firearm charges
Prosecutors said the president’s son will admit to failing to pay more than $200,000 in federal income taxes, and to having a .38 Special while addicted to drugs.
1 year ago
So far, 23 departments have completed their initial racial equity action plans. All departments will need to complete theirs by the end of the year.
1 year ago
Biden administration moves to restore endangered species protections dropped by Trump
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said it would reinstate a decades-old regulation that mandates blanket protections for species newly classified as threatened.
1 year ago
Justice Alito accepted Alaska resort vacation from GOP donors, report says
A story published Wednesday by ProPublica states that in July 2008 Alito flew to a remote corner of Alaska aboard the private plane of businessman and GOP donor, Paul Singer.
1 year ago