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File photo:  Pennsylvania state Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman, R-Centre, takes part in a forum for Republican candidates for governor of Pennsylvania at the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference in Camp Hill, Pa., Friday, April 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Jake Corman was getting out of the race for governor, then Trump called

In a wild day where Trump denied candidate Bill McSwain an endorsement in the GOP primary race, Jake Corman will stay in at Trump’s request.

4 years ago

William McSwain speaks during a news conference
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

McSwain wanted Trump’s support in the Pa. governor race. He got an anti-endorsement instead

Calling McSwain a ‘coward’ for failing to act on Trump’s claim of ‘massive fraud’ in the 2020 presidential election, the ex-president rejects an endorsement.

4 years ago

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks to students at Pemberton High School in Burlington County, N.J. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Education

U.N. ambassador discusses Russian invasion while inspiring Pemberton students

U.N. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield discussed her job and her role in the Ukraine crisis as she visited students at Pemberton Township High School.

4 years ago

Barbara Silzle, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. (Courtesy of Philadelphia Cultural Fund)
Arts & Entertainment

The head of the Philadelphia Cultural Fund has one last fight before stepping down

Barbara Silzle has one more budget fight with the city before leaving the fund that distributes public money to small and mid-sized organizations.

4 years ago

A close-up of President Joe Biden.
Courts & Law

Biden expected to release rule on ghost guns in days

The Biden administration is expected to come out within days with its long-awaited ghost gun rule. The aim is to rein in privately made firearms without serial numbers.

4 years ago

Mehmet Oz, the former host of
NPR
Politics & Policy

Trump endorses Dr. Oz for the U.S. Senate

Donald Trump's support for Dr. Mehmet Oz comes as Republican candidates vie for the former president's support in the key battleground state.

4 years ago

In this photo taken on March 17, 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, poses with Col. Gen. Alexander Dvornikov during an awarding ceremony in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia. Russia has appointed a new Ukraine war commander. A top U.S. official on Sunday, April 10, 2022 said Russia named Gen. Dvornikov as commander of an armed campaign that Russian authorities still refer to as a “special military operation.
Politics & Policy

U.S. doubts new Russian war chief can end Moscow’s floundering

After its striking post-invasion setbacks, Russia has appointed a new Ukraine war commander.

4 years ago

File photo: Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has been ousted by a no-confidence vote. (Anjum Naveed/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Imran Khan has been ousted as Pakistan’s prime minister

The no confidence vote came after the speaker of the house resigned and after Khan's own lawmakers delayed the vote.

4 years ago

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman speaks at a news conference
Politics & Policy

Fetterman, Democrats confront a newly hostile Pa. Senate primary

Fetterman has been on the defensive, after a week of attacks by Lamb, Malcolm Kenyatta and a super PAC supporting Lamb that's running a TV ad against Fetterman.

4 years ago

Maj. Gen. Rodney Faulk, commanding general of the Army Reserve's 99th Readiness Division based at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, passing the colors to Command Sgt. Maj. Subretta Pompey as she assumes the assignment as the top non-commissioned officer in the division. She is also the first African American and first woman to hold that position.
Community

An Army Reserve division welcomes first Black woman as top non-commissioned officer

Command Sgt. Maj. Subretta Pompey assumed the command as the top non-commissioned officer for the U.S. Army Reserve’s 99th Readiness Division at Joint Base MDL.

4 years ago

Governor Tom Wolf
Courts & Law

Gov. Wolf appeals court order blocking carbon emissions plan

The filing in the state Supreme Court appealed a two-day old decision by a lower court which barred the official publication of the the regulation “pending further order."

4 years ago

Philadelphia City Hall.
Politics & Policy
Billy Penn

Workers are prepping City Hall for in-person Council session, but lawmakers are still holding off on a return

The plan includes “wireless technology” to allow for safer public participation.

4 years ago

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer attends an event with President Joe Biden in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Wednesday, March 9, 2022, in Washington. Prosecutors in the trial of four men charged with planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer are showing jurors profanity-filled messages and social media posts on Thursday, March 10, by two of the men, some months before the FBI got involved in the case
Courts & Law

2 acquitted, jury hung on Delaware man and 1 more in Whitmer kidnap plot

Defense portrayed their clients as weekend warriors prone to wild talk. They said FBI undercover agents and informants tricked the men into agreeing to a conspiracy.

4 years ago

Bill Freeborn (third from left) observes as Mayor Mike Purzycki talks about a Land Project in Wilmington in 2019.
Courts & Law

GOP insider ‘now a criminal’ after pleading guilty to stealing $28,000 from Wilmington housing agency he ran

The plea marks a dramatic fall for the ex-city councilman and business executive who once held a fundraiser at his home for then-President George H.W. Bush.

4 years ago

Traffic lights are out of service on a street in San Juan, Puerto Rico, early Thursday, April 7, 2022. More than a million customers in Puerto Rico remained without electricity on Thursday after a fire at a main power plant caused the biggest blackout so far this year across the U.S. territory, forcing it to cancel classes and shutter government offices.
Community

Puerto Rico struggles to emerge from outage as anger builds

Hundreds of thousands of people across Puerto Rico remain without power nearly two days after a fire at a main power plant sparked an island-wide outage.

4 years ago

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