Government Accountability
A grand jury sworn in Tuesday could decide whether Trump is charged over Georgia’s 2020 election
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been investigating since shortly after Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
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Trump lawyers ask judge to postpone trial without setting a date in classified documents case
Trump was charged in a 38-count indictment with conspiring to hide classified documents at Mar-a-Lago from federal investigators.
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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.
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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.
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During the three years since George Floyd’s murder, the law enforcement lobby succeeded in eroding the initial bill’s expansive provisions.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
3 years 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.
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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.
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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.
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