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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 ...

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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 ...

9 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 ...

9 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 ...

9 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. ...

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 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 ...

9 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 ...

9 years ago

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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 ...

9 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

9 years ago

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 New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a political ally of President Donald Trump, says the president's statements blaming
Politics & Policy

Christie raps Trump for blaming Charlottesville violence on ‘both sides’

President Donald Trump’s comments that both sides were equally responsible for the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, were a mi ...

9 years ago

 President Donald Trump, (left), and Liberty University president, Jerry Falwell Jr., (right), during commencement ceremonies at the school in Lynchburg, Va., Saturday, May 13, 2017. (Steve Helber/AP Photo)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Trump’s Sunday flunky: ‘He says what is in his heart’

Team Trump (minus Steve Bannon) was so hunkered in its bunker yesterday that when “Meet the Press” and the other Sunday shows ...

9 years ago

 In this file photo, Hope Hicks, then press secretary for President-elect Donald Trump's campaign, arrives at Trump Tower in New York, Monday, Jan. 16, 2017. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Trump’s new communications director Hope Hicks isn’t new to his ways

Others tried without much success, and now the job of keeping President Donald Trump on message has fallen to Hope Hicks, a young aide wh ...

9 years ago

 Billionaire investor Carl Icahn and President Donald Trump pictured in this composite photo (Mark Lennihan and Alex Brandon/AP Photos, file)
Politics & Policy

Trump adviser Carl Icahn resigned ahead of negative magazine story

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who resigned Friday from an unpaid post as President Donald Trump’s adviser on deregulation effort ...

9 years ago

 In this file photo, Steve Bannon, then senior advisor to then President-elect Donald Trump, makes a call outside Trump Tower on Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, in New York. (Kevin Hagen/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Strategist Steve Bannon leaves Trump’s turbulent White House

Steve Bannon, a forceful but divisive presence in President Donald Trump’s White House, is leaving. Trump accepted Bannon ...

9 years ago

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First Person: Dr. Kara Odom Walker

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