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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

President Joe Biden, first lady Jill Biden and their new dog Commander, a purebred German shepherd puppy, meet virtually with service members around the world, Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus in Washington, to thank them for their service and wish them a Merry Christmas
Politics & Policy

Bidens mark Christmas with holiday calls to service members

President Joe Biden marked his first Christmas in office by making calls to military service members stationed around the world, offering them holiday wishes and gratitude.

4 years ago

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf addresses the media while wearing a face mask
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Wolf vetoes GOP bill to post school course materials online

The Democratic governor said the legislation “politicizes what is being taught in our schools."

4 years ago

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during an infrastructure announcement at AFL-CIO December 16, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Kamala Harris tests negative after a COVID-19 exposure

A staffer who worked in close proximity to the vice president has tested positive for the coronavirus. Harris tested negative via a PCR test on Wednesday.

4 years ago

File photo: Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
Community

5 teenagers charged in armed carjacking of U.S. Rep. Scanlon

State police say Scanlon’s blue Acura MDX was located Wednesday night in Newark, Delaware.

4 years ago

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., a centrist Democrat vital to the fate of President Joe Biden's $3.5 government overhaul, updates reporters about his position on the bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021. Despite months of being courted and cajoled, Sen. Joe Manchin is still not a yes on President Joe Biden's big $2 trillion domestic package and has thrown Democrats into turmoil
Politics & Policy

Biden vows he, Manchin will ‘get something done’ on $2T bill

The president's remarks at the White House on Tuesday were his first since Manchin effectively tanked the party’s policy initiative with his own jarring year-end announcement.

4 years ago

A closeup of the New Jersey Statehouse
Politics & Policy
NJ Spotlight

Testy day in Trenton: Assembly Republicans obstruct Dems’ legislative plans

The biggest news of the day may have been the theatrics and politicking in the Assembly that accompanied nearly every bill.

4 years ago

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2019 photo, Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., leads a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. Isakson, an affable Georgia Republican politician who rose from the ranks of the state Legislature to become a U.S. senator, has died. He was 76. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s office confirmed the death in a news release Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Johnny Isakson, former GOP senator known for building consensus, dies at age 76

4 years ago

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., a centrist Democrat vital to the fate of President Joe Biden's $3.5 government overhaul, updates reporters about his position on the bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021. Despite months of being courted and cajoled, Sen. Joe Manchin is still not a yes on President Joe Biden's big $2 trillion domestic package and has thrown Democrats into turmoil. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Joe Manchin says he is unable to support President Biden’s Build Back Better plan

4 years ago

President Joe Biden arrives at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Catholic Church in Wilmington, Del., Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021. Today is the anniversary of Neilia and Naomi Biden's death
Politics & Policy

Biden marks anniversary of 1972 car crash that killed wife

President Joe Biden on Saturday is commemorating the 49th anniversary of the car crash that killed his first wife and infant daughter.

4 years ago

Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines sit ready for use at a Dallas County Health and Human Services drive up vaccine site in Mesquite, Texas, Nov. 30, 2021. While all eyes are on the new and little-understood omicron variant, the delta form of the coronavirus isn't finished wreaking havoc in the U.S. There is much that is unknown about omicron, including whether it is more contagious than previous versions, makes people sicker or more easily thwarts the vaccine or breaks through the immunity that people get from a bout of COVID-19
Politics & Policy

OSHA vaccine mandate penalties to start Jan. 10

The federal agency separately says there will be no citations of companies regarding its testing requirements before Feb. 9.

4 years ago

File photo: A worker passes a Dominion Voting ballot scanner while setting up a polling location at an elementary school in Gwinnett County, Ga., outside of Atlanta on Jan. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Ben Gray, File)
Politics & Policy

New front in GOP’s election ‘investigation’ draws protests

State lawyers asked a court Friday to stop a digital data exchange scheduled for Wednesday in southern Pennsylvania’s sparsely populated Fulton County.

4 years ago

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