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File Photo: Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, left, listens as Attorney General Jeff Landry, right, speaks about medicines being donated by drug companies to help the fight against COVID-19 at the Governor's Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management, April 6, 2020, in Baton Rouge, La. A federal appeals court has temporarily halted the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for businesses with 100 or more workers. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021, granted an emergency stay of the requirement by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration that those workers be vaccinated by Jan. 4, or face mask requirements and weekly tests. Landry said the court action halts President Biden’s administration from “moving forward with his unlawful overreach.”
Health

Appeals court stays Biden administration’s vaccine mandate on larger businesses

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, a Republican, said the court action halts Biden’s administration from “moving forward with his unlawful overreach.”

4 years ago

In this image from House Television, Democrats celebrate on the House floor late Friday, Nov. 5, 2021, in Washington, after the House approved a $1 trillion package of road and other infrastructure projects after Democrats resolved a months-long standoff between progressives and moderates, notching a victory that President Joe Biden and his party had become increasingly anxious to claim
Politics & Policy

Biden hails infrastructure win as ‘monumental step forward’

The House has approved a $1 trillion package of road and other infrastructure projects after Democrats resolved a months-long standoff between progressives and moderates.

4 years ago

NEW YORK, USA - MAY 15, 2019: Counter in Starbucks cafe with Straws and sugar to pick up to go
Community

You now must request a straw with your soft drink in New Jersey

As part of an impending overall ban on single-use plastics in the Garden State, a restriction on straws took effect Thursday.

4 years ago

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., arrives to lead Democrats in advancing President Joe Biden’s $1.85 trillion-and-growing domestic policy package, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. The hard-fought social policy and climate-change legislation will still have to clear the 50-50-Senate, where revisions are likely and Biden has no votes to spare
Politics & Policy

House Dems delay huge social bill, plan infrastructure vote

The Democrats' long struggle to balance demands from progressives and moderates once again dogged that pillar of President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda.

4 years ago

Bernadette Witt, left, and JoAnn Bartlett, right, process and double-check mail ballots
Politics & Policy

No fraud behind late-night votes in N.J. county

Social media users began incorrectly claiming that real-time election results from news organizations showed proof of election fraud in the state’s most populous county.

4 years ago

Gov. Wolf, Lawmakers Discuss Violence Intervention and Prevention Grant Opportunity for PA Communities.
Politics & Policy

Wolf describes having wife drop off ballot as honest mistake

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf says his mail-in ballot was dropped off by his wife before Tuesday’s election despite a state law requirement that voters deliver them in person.

4 years ago

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell gives the closing keynote at the World Congress of Information Technology in Austin, Texas on Friday, May 5, 2006.(AP Photo/Jack Plunkett)
Politics & Policy

Son and colleagues to eulogize soldier-diplomat Colin Powell

Colin L. Powell, the widely praised soldier-diplomat who died of complications from COVID-19 last month, is being remembered at a funeral service Friday in Washington.

4 years ago

Dr. Cheryl Bettigole speaks from a podium while wearing a face mask
Health

How newly appointed Commissioner Bettigole plans to turn the Philly Health Department around

Bettigole has served as interim commissioner of the Department of Public Health since May, when Dr. Thomas Farley resigned at the request of the mayor.

4 years ago

Kevin Brobson walks with his wife, Lauren
Politics & Policy

2021 gives Pennsylvania GOP more hope for big 2022 election

Republicans could be considered favored in next year's races for a new governor and a new U.S. senator.

4 years ago

Delaware County Courthouse (Google Maps)
Politics & Policy

Delco Democratic party declares victory for council and row office candidates — escaping a nationwide GOP revival

Some mail-in ballots still must be counted. But those votes usually lean Democratic, and unofficial winners have emerged in the County Council race.

4 years ago

Bernadette Witt, left, and JoAnn Bartlett, right, process and double-check mail ballots
Politics & Policy
NJ Spotlight

Murphy vs. Ciattarelli: No winner, no loser yet in New Jersey governor’s race

Another unknown that many had assumed would have been easily answered by Tuesday’s results: How powerful will Democrats be in the Legislature?

4 years ago

Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin, right, gives his wife Suzanne, a high five during a rally in Chesterfield, Va., Monday, Nov. 1, 2021
Politics & Policy

Youngkin wins Virginia governor’s race, jolting Democrats

Republican former business executive Glenn Youngkin has won Virginia’s governor’s race, a major political turnabout in a state that had been trending increasingly blue.

4 years ago

A person wearing an eagle on the back of their hoodie watches the incoming results for New Jersey at the election night party for Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli, held at the Bridgewater Marriott hotel in Bridgewater, N.J., Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021
Politics & Policy

Murphy vs. Ciattarelli: N.J. governor’s race still too close to call

The race for New Jersey governor is still too close to call, with Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli holding a narrow lead over incumbent Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy.

4 years ago

Candidate yard signs line the entrance to WITF's Public Media Center during the Nov. 2, 2021 election. The station building serves as a polling place for voters in Dauphin County. (Sam Dunklau / WITF)
Politics & Policy
WITF

Midstate county election departments expect long counting process for some races

County election departments across the midstate say they’re well-equipped and staffed to handle voters and ballot counting for the municipal election that ends tonight.

4 years ago

Amy McCoy reads a book to preschoolers as they finish their lunch at her Forever Young Daycare facility, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, in Mountlake Terrace, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
Community

Delaware child care centers to get millions in federal funding after essential pandemic work

The pandemic put a spotlight on the importance of early child education and care to the broader economy. Now, Delaware’s child care industry is getting federal help to do that

4 years ago

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