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Government

Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol
NPR
Politics & Policy

One year after Jan. 6, signs of a nation deeper in peril

A year after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, a growing realization that traditional tools to counter extremism in the U.S. may not apply.

4 years ago

The Pennsylvania Capitol building in Harrisburg is shown from afar, with the road stretching towards it.
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Lower taxes, school choice, local control: GOP field for Pa. governor makes its pitch

The event delved into such topics as school choice, energy production, election conspiracies, and how to make homemade backyard biodiesel.

4 years ago

Fox News Channel and radio talk show host Sean Hannity (left) interviews U.S. President Donald Trump before a campaign rally at the Las Vegas Convention Center on September 20, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada.   (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

House Jan. 6 committee seeks to question Fox News’ Sean Hannity

In its request to speak with Hannity, the panel disclosed newly revealed texts he allegedly sent.

4 years ago

FILE - Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf speaks after signing budget legislation June 30, 2021, in Harrisburg, Pa. Wolf is about to lay out his eighth and final state budget proposal. Pennsylvania's healthy account balances make this a
Politics & Policy

Wolf heads into last budget season with flush state coffers

Pennsylvania is sitting on a fat budget reserve, a healthy and growing surplus, and billions in unspent federal coronavirus relief cash.

4 years ago

A winter storm delivers heavy snow to the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Health

Congress’ doctor wants ‘maximal telework’ amid virus surge

The seven-day average rate of infection at the Capitol's testing center has grown from less than 1% to more than 13%.

4 years ago

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 01: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) joins fellow anti-abortion activists in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as the justices hear hear arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, a case about a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks,  on December 01, 2021 in Washington, DC. With the addition of conservative justices to the court by former President Donald Trump, experts believe this could be the most important abortion case in decades and could undermine or overturn Roe v. Wade. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Twitter bans Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal account over COVID misinformation

4 years ago

FILE - Members of the House of Representatives gather in the chamber to vote on creation of a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, at the Capitol in Washington, on June 30, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Politics & Policy

Jan. 6 committee prepares to go public as findings mount

The committee hopes not only to show the severity of the riot but to push back on the former president's false claims of election fraud.

4 years ago

Delco Councilmember Elaine Schaefer said that the countys 911 system has serious infrastructure technology and security deficiencies and it is long overdue for modernization. (Kenny Cooper, WHYY)
Community

Delco receives $4.6M to improve the county’s aging 911 system

The money comes via Pennsylvania’s Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program after local lawmakers nudged Harrisburg for help.

4 years ago

Feb. 29, 2020, file photo, National Rifle Association Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre speaks at Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2020, in Oxon Hill, Md.(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Inside the Downfall of the NRA

NPR's Tim Mak explains just how the politically powerful National Rifle Association has successfully blocked almost all gun regulation legislation.

Air Date: December 30, 2021 10:00 am

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A Ukrainian soldier, who goes by the nickname Chorny, walks in a trench on the front line on December 12, 2021 in Zolote, Ukraine.  (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Biden will speak by phone with Putin as Russia ramps up presence on Ukraine border

The White House said, "It will take a high level of engagement to address this and to try to find a path to de-escalation."

4 years ago

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., smiles from the podium as he speaks during the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 27, 2016. (Paul Sancya/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

‘The guy from Searchlight’: Former Senate leader Harry Reid is dead at 82

Born into poverty in Searchlight, Nev., the one-time amateur boxer served in Congress for 34 years — first in the House and, later, for three decades in the Senate.

4 years ago

FILE - People attend the Women's March ATX rally, Saturday, Oct., 2, 2021, at the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas.  An expected decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the coming year to severely restrict abortion rights or overturn Roe v. Wade entirely is setting off a renewed round of abortion battles in state legislatures. (AP Photo/Stephen Spillman, File)
Politics & Policy

State legislatures in U.S. poised to act on abortion rights

At least 20 states, mostly across the South and Midwest, already have laws that would severely restrict or ban abortion if the high court overturns Roe.

4 years ago

Governor Tom Wolf
Politics & Policy

Wolf taps a new election secretary for last year in office

Gov. Tom Wolf will have a new top election official as he enters his last year in office, naming Leigh Chapman to replace Veronica Degraffenreid atop the Department of State.

4 years ago

In this photo from Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, a Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission plaque is seen along a roadside in New Castle, Pa. A recent review of all 2,500 markers the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission had been installing for more than a century, faced a fresh round of questions about just whose stories were being told on the state's roadsides, and the language used to tell them. The increased scrutiny that has focused on factual errors, inadequate historical context and racist or otherwise inappropriate references, prompting the state to remove two markers, revise two and order new text for two others so far. The changes have become grist for the political mill. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Politics & Policy

Racial reckoning turns focus to Pennsylvania’s roadside historical markers

In Pennsylvania, the new markers getting approved are increasingly telling the stories of previously underrepresented people and groups.

4 years ago

Workers box up the statue of Christopher Columbus at Marconi Plaza
Community
Billy Penn

18 months later, the Columbus statue is still standing in Marconi Plaza, inside a box

What’s next in the legal battle that’s lasted nearly two years?

4 years ago

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