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President Joe Biden signs the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 into law on Thursday. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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Politics & Policy

It’s a cliché to call an election-year Congress do-nothing. The history doesn’t match

There's no law against making laws in an election year. There are special challenges, to be sure, but the hurdles may loom larger in lore than in reality.

4 years ago

File photo: Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, Nov. 30, 2021. Pence will urge Republicans to move on from the 2020 election. And he will say
Politics & Policy

Pence hits Trump: No room in GOP ‘for apologists for Putin’

Former Vice President Mike Pence has been working to differentiate himself from Trump as he lays the groundwork for a possible 2024 presidential run.

4 years ago

Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference
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Politics & Policy

Jan. 6 panel concludes Trump likely broke laws in trying to overturn election

The select committee says evidence "provides, at minimum, a good-faith basis for concluding" that Trump broke the law with efforts to obstruct the counting of electoral votes.

4 years ago

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 1, 2022
Politics & Policy

President Biden vows to check Russian aggression, fight inflation in his first State of the Union address

The president is aiming to lead the country out of the pandemic and reboot his stalled domestic agenda as well as confront Russia’s aggression.

4 years ago

Councilmember Cherelle Parker is spearheading the effort. (Jared Piper / Philadelphia City Council Flickr)
Politics & Policy
Billy Penn

Philly can vote to get rid of man-centric language in the city charter

Right now, the city’s governing document defines some positions as for “men of recognized standing.” A ballot question in the May primary would change that.

4 years ago

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland speaks with reporters on Feb. 15 about visiting several communities and sites in Mississippi to honor individuals and events that advanced the civil rights movement. (Rogelio V. Solis/AP)
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Politics & Policy

The U.S. looks to replace a derogatory name used hundreds of times on federal lands

The Department of the Interior is seeking public comment on name replacements for the more than 660 geographic features that contain the word.

4 years ago

File photo: Attorney Mark Pomerantz arrives at Federal Court in New York, Aug. 12, 2002. Pomerantz, one of two prosecutors in charge of the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump, have suddenly resigned throwing the future of the probe into question
Courts & Law

Prosecutors in charge of Trump criminal probe have resigned

The two prosecutors in charge of the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump have suddenly resigned.

4 years ago

Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department is aware that classified material has been found on former President Trump's property in Mar-a-Lago. (Wilfredo Lee/AP)
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Politics & Policy

Garland confirms classified material found among records taken from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

Several former government officials have been charged with unauthorized removal or retention of documents.

4 years ago

U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Santos, shown here during his 2021 Senate confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., began serving as the first Latino to head the federal government's largest statistical agency in January. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)
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Politics & Policy

U.S. census director says bureau is strengthening ‘firewall’ after Trump meddling

The revelation comes after years of meddling with the 2020 census by former President Donald Trump's administration.

4 years ago

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Vice President Mike Pence officiate as a joint session of the House and Senate convenes to confirm the Electoral College votes cast in November's election
Politics & Policy

How fake electors tried to throw result to Trump

Officials are digging deeper into the role that fake slates of electors played in Trump's effort to cling to power after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.

4 years ago

File photo: In this Jan. 6, 2021, photo, President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally in Washington. A federal judge on Feb. 18, 2022, rejected efforts by the former president to toss out lawsuits filed by lawmakers and two Capitol police officers, saying in his ruling that the former president's words
Courts & Law

Judge rejects effort by Trump to toss Jan. 6 lawsuits

U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta says in his ruling that Trump’s words were “plausibly words of incitement not protected by the First Amendment.”

4 years ago

Federal government standards require the U.S. census to count people with roots in the Middle East or North Africa as white. But a new study finds many people of MENA descent do not see themselves as white, and neither do many white people. (OsakaWayne Studios/Getty Images)
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Politics & Policy

The U.S. census sees Middle Eastern and North African people as white. Many don’t

There's a reality about race in the U.S. that has confounded many people of Middle Eastern or North African descent.

4 years ago

President Donald Trump holds up papers while he speaks from a podium
Politics & Policy

Trump’s stash of documents shows ‘fragile’ historical record

The discovery of more than a dozen boxes of records at Mar-a-Lago has alarmed historians. It's a reminder of Trump's disregard for maintaining a clear historical record.

4 years ago

Sen. Doug Mastriano is seen in a crowd
Politics & Policy

Pa. Sen. Doug Mastriano subpoenaed by Jan. 6 committee

The committee cited a Nov. 28, 2020, tweet by Mastriano that said he was pushing to have the Pennsylvania Legislature appoint electors.

4 years ago

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Health
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Philadelphia firefighters union sues city over COVID-19 vaccine mandate

The firefighters union says up to 30% of its members could be suspended under the mandate.

4 years ago

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