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Sports in America explores stories that shape athletes and fans alike. Each week, David Greene hosts in-depth conversations with people across the world of sports  – from the star who hits the game winner to the millions of us whose lives are touched by the game.
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Sports in America explores stories that shape athletes and fans alike. Each week, David Greene hosts in-depth conversations with people across the world of sports – from the star who hits the game winner to the millions of us whose lives are touched by the game.

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Chairman of the Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee Sen. Cris Dush, R-Jefferson, speaks during a hearing at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021.   (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Politics & Policy

GOP effort to inspect Pennsylvania voting machines advances

The inspection of voting machines in a heavily Republican county in Pennsylvania appears ready to go forward in a GOP effort inspired by former President Donald Trump.

5 years ago

President Joe Biden pauses while speaking to members of the media as he leaves a meeting with the Senate Democratic Caucus to discuss voting rights and election integrity on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Radio Times
Courts & Law

Voting rights and the fight in Congress

It's unlikely that Biden's voting rights legislation can pass. We'll look at what's happening in Congress today, and take it back to the crucial 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Air Date: January 14, 2022 10:00 am

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In this Sunday, June 25, 2017 file photo, Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington. Rhodes has been arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Justice Department announced the charges against Rhodes on Thursday
Courts & Law

Justice Department charges Oath Keepers head with Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy

Stewart Rhodes has been arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

5 years ago

The dome of the Pennsylvania Capitol is visible in Harrisburg.
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

The (arcane, unlikely) doomsday redistricting law looming over Pennsylvania’s map impasse

It’s a vision of election overload that would undercut Pennsylvania’s proportional, local representation in Washington, D.C.

5 years ago

From left, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., chair of the Senate Rules Committee, talk about the need for the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, as they speak to reporters following a Democratic policy meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Politics & Policy

Invoking Jan. 6, Dems pivot to fight for voting legislation

Democrats are mounting an impassioned bid to overhaul Senate rules that stand in the way of their sweeping voting legislation.

5 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy speaks during his 2021 budget address
Politics & Policy

Murphy to sign bill to codify abortion rights in N.J.

Unlike a previous version of the measure, the bill that passed the New Jersey Legislature Mon. would not require insurance providers to cover abortions.

5 years ago

A close-up of a Pennsylvania congressional map.
Politics & Policy

Pa. GOP seeks more control over legislative redistricting

State House Republicans who just lost a key vote on new preliminary legislative district maps moved Monday to regain more control of the process.

5 years ago

Chester City Hall. (Google maps)
Politics & Policy

‘Bankruptcy has to be on the table’: Receiver says police pension spiking threatens to sink Chester

The city’s fiscal emergency is worsening because of a failed pension plan. Receiver Michael Doweary is looking at all options, including bankruptcy.

5 years ago

An aerial view of the New Jersey State Assembly in Trenton
Politics & Policy

Incoming N.J. Senate leadership team the most diverse in state history

When the 219th state Legislature is sworn in at noon on Tuesday, the overall body and its Democratic leadership will include more people of color.

5 years ago

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., speaks during a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations to examine U.S.-Russia policy with testimony from Victoria Nuland, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is running for reelection

5 years ago

FILE - President Joe Biden departs after speaking about the October jobs report from the State Dining Room of the White House, Nov. 5, 2021, in Washington. As President Joe Biden wraps up his first year in the White House, he has held fewer news conferences than any of  his five immediate predecessors at the same point in their presidencies, and has taken part in fewer media interviews than any of his recent predecessors. That's according to new research from Towson University professor emerita Martha Joynt Kumar. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Politics & Policy

Biden shied away from news conferences, interviews in Year 1

President Joe Biden has held fewer news conferences than any of his five immediate predecessors at the same point in their presidencies.

5 years ago

A closeup of Sen. Mastriano
Politics & Policy

Pa. State Sen. Doug Mastriano announces candidacy for Pennsylvania governor

The state senator who has pushed to overturn last year’s presidential election formally announced he will run for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.

5 years ago

Former President Barack Obama speaks during a memorial service for former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at the Smith Center in Las Vegas, Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022
Politics & Policy

Obama, Biden honor late Senate leader Harry Reid as man ‘who got things done’

Democratic leaders recalled Reid — often laughingly — as a man whose impatience for pleasantries was part of a drive to improve the lives of ordinary Americans.

5 years ago

The capital dome is seen at the New Jersey Statehouse. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Scaled back bill to codify abortion rights passes N.J. legislative committees

The fate of the bill is questionable as it heads to a final vote on Monday, the last full day of the current legislative session.

5 years ago

People listen as President Donald Trump speaks during the rally that preceded the insurrection
Politics & Policy

A year after Jan. 6, Pa. Democrats say there is work to do to protect voting rights

Hours after President Biden spoke on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection, Democratic leaders in Pa. reflected at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

5 years ago

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