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Senate votes to move ahead with Trump’s request for $9B in spending cuts
A final vote in the Senate could occur as early as Wednesday. The bill would then return to the House for another vote before it would go to Trump's desk.
4 months ago
Kyle Schwarber’s 3 homers in tiebreaking swing-off lift National League to All-Star Game win
Schwarber earned the MVP award, becoming the first non-pitcher MVP without a hit.
4 months ago
A joint program between the Philadelphia-based health giants gives some physicians automatic approval for common outpatient tests like MRIs and PET scans.
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Listen 1:06Supreme Court allows Trump to lay off nearly 1,400 Education Department employees
The court on Monday paused an order from a federal judge in Boston, who issued a preliminary injunction reversing the layoffs and calling into question the broader plan.
4 months ago
From tariffs to universities, Trump’s negotiating style is often less dealmaking and more coercion
As the president tightens his grip on independent institutions, such as the University of Pennsylvania, checks on his power are diminishing.
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A year after Trump’s near-assassination, friends and allies see some signs of a changed man
While largely the same brash Trump, they say he is more attentive and more grateful and speaks openly about how he believes he was saved by God.
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Trump announces 30% tariffs against EU, Mexico to begin Aug. 1
European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the EU may adopt "proportionate countermeasures" if Trump moves ahead with the tariffs.
4 months ago
Masked immigration agents are spurring fear and confusion across the U.S.
The Department of Homeland Security says federal agents arresting immigrants are hiding their faces for their own safety. Legal advocates say the practice undermines trust.
4 months ago
Republicans urge U.S. universities to cut ties with Chinese-backed scholarship program
Leaders of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party said Wednesday they'd sent letters Temple University and other colleges and universities.
5 months ago
Supreme Court clears the way for Trump’s plans to downsize the federal workforce
The order comes despite warnings that critical government services will be lost and hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be out of their jobs.
5 months ago
American kids have become increasingly unhealthy over nearly 20 years, new study finds
Kids' health "reflects what’s happening in society at large,” said Christopher Forrest, a pediatrician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a co-author of the study.
5 months ago
American garbage: What to do with our trash
It’s day seven of the Philadelphia union strike, and trash is piling up across the city residents think about the amount of garbage they create.
Air Date: July 7, 2025 12:00 pm
Listen 51:12Trump signs his tax and spending cut bill at the White House July 4 picnic
The legislation extends Trump's 2017 multi-trillion dollar tax cuts and cuts Medicaid and food stamps by $1.2 trillion.
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U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick is one of three GOP members in the 119th Congress who serves a district former Vice President Kamala Harris won in 2024.
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Critics and health policy experts consider the GOP legislation the largest roll back of health care and food assistance in U.S. history.
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