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Government Accountability

Gareth and Fe Hall
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Three years ago, a police officer killed Christian Hall. Now, the Pa. legislature will study the role of 911 in mental health emergencies

The study will look for ways for emergency dispatchers to send crisis responders through the 911 system in response to mental health emergencies.

2 years ago

The Pennsylvania Capitol
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Pa. lawmakers’ base salary now tops $106K. Here’s what you need to know about their automatic pay raises

What you need to know about Pennsylvania lawmakers’ salaries, the history of the increase, and why changes are unlikely.

2 years ago

File photo: Former President Donald Trump listens as he speaks with reporters while in flight on his plane after a campaign rally at Waco Regional Airport, in Waco, Texas, March 25, 2023, while en route to West Palm Beach, Fla.
Courts & Law

Michigan Supreme Court will keep Trump on 2024 ballot

Wednesday's ruling follows a decision by a divided Colorado Supreme Court, which said Trump is ineligible to be president after his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.

2 years ago

Sen. Bob Menendez leaves federal court, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, in New York.
Courts & Law

Prosecutors oppose Sen. Bob Menendez’s effort to delay May bribery trial until July

Menendez has pleaded not guilty to a bribery conspiracy charge alleging he and his wife accepted bribes of cash, gold bars and a luxury car from three New Jersey businessmen.

2 years ago

Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro is seen at a Phillies game.
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Despite ethics concerns, Shapiro will keep accepting tickets from a group that gets state money

Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro’s gift ban says he can’t take tickets from groups with “financial relations with the Commonwealth."

2 years ago

Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023, in Reno, Nev. In a brief filed Saturday, Trump asked a federal appeals court to dismiss an election interference case against him, arguing he's immune from prosecution. (Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Trump asks appeals court to toss election interference case, arguing that he’s immune

The legal filing late Saturday comes after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to fast track a dispute on whether the former President is immune from prosecution.

2 years ago

Trump supporters participate in a rally ahead of a violent insurrection at the Capitol building
NPR
Politics & Policy

Colorado’s Supreme Court disqualified Trump from the state ballot. What happens now?

Trump's team vowed to appeal the decision. If it's in front of SCOTUS by Jan. 5, Trump's name will stay on the ballot. Experts say the question is likely to keep coming up.

2 years ago

Bethany Hall-Long addresses the crowd
Politics & Policy

Suspicious payments and dirty tricks: Will husband’s controversies impact Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall-Long’s bid for governor?

The candidate calls current and past issues revolving around spouse Dana Long an irrelevant distraction, but questions abound about her transparency.

2 years ago

Listen 3:39
Sen. Bob Menendez leaves federal court, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, in New York.
Politics & Policy

What about Bob? Some N.J. Democrats want Menendez to move on so they can fight for his Senate seat

“They’re already assuming he’s toast,” said one polling expert.

2 years ago

Alejandro Mayorkas
Politics & Policy

Senate border security talks grind on as Trump invokes Nazi-era ‘blood’ rhetoric against immigrants

“They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” Trump said about the record numbers of immigrants coming to the U.S. without immediate legal status.

2 years ago

Former President Donald Trump stands as the crowd cheers at the South Dakota Republican Party Monumental Leaders rally Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, in Rapid City, S.D.
Politics & Policy

Some Trump fake electors from 2020 haven’t faded away. They have roles in how the 2024 race is run

Allegheny County election officials have faced no legal consequences after qualifying their electoral votes in 2020 as “conditional” in case Trump had prevailed in court.

2 years ago

Gov. Shapiro signing a bill at his desk
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Pennsylvania’s budget impasse ends as legislature agrees to boost child care tax credit, fund public defense

Pa. lawmakers did not agree to spend more money on a popular home repair program or send additional money to poor schools despite a promise to do so earlier this year.

2 years ago

File photo: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks at the Capitol in Washington, Nov. 29, 2023. The House is pushing toward a vote to authorize the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden formally. This comes as Republicans rally behind the charged process despite lingering concerns among some in the party that the investigation has yet to produce evidence of misconduct by the president.
Politics & Policy

House approves impeachment inquiry into President Biden as Republicans rally behind investigation

Ahead of the vote, Johnson called it “the next necessary step" and acknowledged there are “a lot of people who are frustrated this hasn’t moved faster.“

2 years ago

Jack Smith at a podium
Courts & Law

Special counsel Jack Smith asks Supreme Court to rule quickly on whether Trump can be prosecuted

A federal judge ruled the case could go forward, but the Republican former president signaled he would ask the federal appeals court in Washington to reverse that outcome.

2 years ago

Aisha McCord
Community
6abc

Philadelphia mother says medical examiner wrongfully cremated child’s remains

Aisha McCord said her family waited weeks to bury their daughter, Ashay, only to learn she'd been cremated.

2 years ago

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