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 In this Aug. 2, 2017 file photo, Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., arrives on Capitol Hill Washington, for a closed-door meeting with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary James Mattis.  (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo, File)
Courts & Law

With his legacy and Democrats’ plans to thwart Trump at stake, Menendez to begin corruption trial

Opening arguments begin Wednesday in the federal corruption trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, a case that could alter the future of Presid ...

8 years ago

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 In this Aug. 2, 2017 file photo, Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., arrives on Capitol Hill Washington, for a closed-door meeting with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary James Mattis.  (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo, File)
Courts & Law

With his legacy and Democrats’ plans to thwart Trump at stake, Menendez to begin corruption trial

Opening arguments begin Wednesday in the federal corruption trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, a case that could alter the future of Presid ...

8 years ago

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National Interest
Community

The irony of Labor Day

Labor Day – launched in New York City in 1882, legalized as federal holiday in 1894 – was a way to honor the overworked worki ...

8 years ago

Science

Toxic waste sites flooded in Texas; EPA not on scene [video]

The Associated Press visited seven Superfund sites in and around Houston during the flooding. All had been inundated with water; some wer ...

8 years ago

Health

Toxic waste sites flooded in Texas; EPA not on scene

The Associated Press visited seven Superfund sites in and around Houston during the flooding. All had been inundated with water; some wer ...

8 years ago

 Members of the KKK are escorted by police past a large group of protesters during a KKK rally Saturday, July 8, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va. A month later, as white supremacists protested the proposed removal of a Confederate monument, counter-protester Heather Heyer was killed when James Alex Fields drove a speeding car into the crowd. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Speak Easy
Community

We are the land of the free, but at what price?

Is our ability to tolerate Nazism in the United States vis à vis our First Amendment protections really something for which w ...

8 years ago

 (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY, file)
Money

Americans are least satisfied with pay, retirement plan, health benefits, Gallup poll shows

NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller sits down for his weekly conversation with Gallup’s Frank Newport to talk about trends in U.S. o ...

8 years ago

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A car sits in floodwater from Tropical Storm Harvey rise Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Harvey blows away Trump’s border wall

Once upon a distant time — actually, it was only last week — a demagogue stood on a Phoenix stage and titillated his acoloytes by dec ...

8 years ago

A supporter of LGBT rights holds up an 'equality flag' on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 26, 2017, during an event held by Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass. in response to President Donald Trump's declaration that he wants transgender people barred from serving in the U.S. military 'in any capacity,' citing 'tremendous medical costs and disruption.' (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

ACLU sues Trump over transgender military ban

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender individuals joining ...

8 years ago

 In this Jan. 26, 2016, photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is joined by Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio at a campaign event in Marshalltown, Iowa. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Trump’s craven Joe Apraio pardon, translated

On Friday night Trump pardoned Joe Apraio, the racist Arizona sheriff whose “pervasive culture of disriminatory bias against Latino ...

8 years ago

A file photo of New Jersey Task Force 1 members in action. (NJOEM photo)
Down the Shore
Courts & Law

N.J. search and rescue crews deploy to Texas

New Jersey search and rescue crews are deploying to Texas to assist with Hurricane Harvey operations, Gov. Chris Christie announced. ...

8 years ago

 Friends Franklin Halloween, 16, left, and Deleon Gambel, 14, fight the current from the overflow of Buffalo Bayou as they make their way through floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey while checking on neighbors in their apartment complex in Houston, Texas, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Community

Don’t let Hurricane Harvey become Hurricane Katrina

As I watched the horrific images of Hurricane Harvey causing catastrophic flooding in Houston, I was moved. I grieved for the five ...

8 years ago

Residents are rescued from their homes surrounded by floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Houston, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Urban Planning

Hurricane Harvey the latest threat to flood-prone Houston

Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Texas coast some 175 miles (280 kilometers) from Houston, but the nation’s fourth-largest city ha ...

8 years ago

First
Politics & Policy

First Person: U.S. Senator Chris Coons

From the President’s new plan on Afghanistan to his latest address to the nation, Coons shares his thoughts on the President and hi ...

8 years ago

 A crowd wears protective glasses as they watch the beginning of the solar eclipse from Salem, Ore., Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
Science

Historic eclipse turns day into night across the U.S.

Millions of Americans gazed in wonder through telescopes, cameras and disposable protective glasses Monday as the moon blotted out the sun

8 years ago

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