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President Joe Biden speaks about the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022 at the Shipyards in Lorain, Ohio.(
Politics & Policy

President Biden signs stopgap spending bill averting shutdown

President Joe Biden on Friday signed a bipartisan bill to extend government funding for three weeks to give Congress more time to reach a ...

4 years ago

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., on Jan. 10, 2022. On Friday, Feb. 18, 2022, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced legislation aimed at letting private citizens file lawsuits to enforce a ban on assault weapons. The bill is modeled after a Texas law that lets private citizens enforce a ban on abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected
Politics & Policy

California bill would allow citizens to enforce weapons ban

A California bill would allow private citizens to go after gun makers in the same way Texas allows them to target abortion providers.

4 years ago

Senate President pro tempore and Appropriations Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) talks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on January 31, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Politics & Policy

The U.S. Senate avoids a government shutdown, punting a spending deadline into March

Lawmakers hope to finalize a longer-term spending bill before the new shutdown deadline on March 11.

4 years ago

Pa. Supreme Court building
Courts & Law

The Pa. Supreme Court prepares to decide how to draw the state’s Congressional districts

Candidates were supposed to have been working to get on the ballot by now, but the state's election schedule is on ice because new political maps are not in place yet.

4 years ago

File photo: Former president Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021, in Orlando, Fla. A judge is hearing arguments Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Trump's fight to avoid being questioned under oath in a New York investigation into his business practices
Courts & Law

Trump must testify in New York investigation, judge rules

A judge has ruled former President Donald Trump must answer questions under oath in a New York investigation into his business practices. It is likely to be appealed.

4 years ago

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin leaves a courthouse in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. Palin lost her libel lawsuit against The New York Times on Tuesday when a jury rejected her claim that the newspaper maliciously damaged her reputation by erroneously linking her campaign rhetoric to a mass shooting.
Courts & Law

Jury rejects Sarah Palin’s lawsuit against New York Times

A jury in New York on Tuesday rejected the Republican’s claim that the newspaper maliciously damaged her reputation with an editorial linking her campaign rhetoric to a mass

4 years ago

Ukrainians attend a rally in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022, during a protest against the potential escalation of the tension between Russia and Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden are to hold a high-stakes telephone call on Saturday as tensions over a possibility imminent invasion of Ukraine escalated sharply and the U.S. announced plans to evacuate its embassy in the Ukrainian capital
Politics & Policy

Biden warns Putin of ‘severe costs’ of Ukraine invasion

In the hourlong call, Biden also said the United States and its allies would respond “decisively and impose swift and severe costs” if the Kremlin attacked its neighbor.

4 years ago

Protesters try to take down the statue of former mayor and police chief Frank Rizzo
Community
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How the protest movement engineered a takedown of the Rizzo statue after years of delay

As artist Ursula Rucker says, “energy is real” in the presence of public art.

4 years ago

Then-Delaware Republican Senatorial candidate Mike Protack takes a call at his office in Wilmington, Del., on Aug. 14, 2006. The former Delaware political candidate who unsuccessfully sought the Republican nominations for governor and U.S. Senate has been sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to federal charges of mailing threats to a lawyer who represented his wife in a divorce case. Protack was sentenced Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022 after pleading guilty in August to two counts of mailing a threatening communication. (AP Photo/Pat Crowe II, file)
Courts & Law

Former Delaware gubernatorial candidate sentenced for threatening ex-wife’s attorney

Once a candidate for Delaware governor, Mike Protack will spend the next year behind bars after pleading guilty to mailing threats to his ex-wife’s attorney.

4 years ago

The U.S. Capitol
NPR
Politics & Policy

House passes stopgap bill to avoid government shutdown

This is the third stopgap spending bill to keep the federal government afloat since October.

4 years ago

Closeup of the Pennsylvania Capitol
Courts & Law

Pa. judge recommends a GOP-drawn congressional map plan. But the process still isn’t over

The congressional map plan drawn by Republican state lawmakers was already vetoed by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf. Here’s what happens next.

4 years ago

The Pennsylvania Capitol is shown in Harrisburg, Pa., Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021.
Politics & Policy

Pa. GOP won’t endorse in big primary fields for governor, Senate

The primary field for governor is double-digits deep, while the fields for U.S. Senate and lieutenant governor each feature at least a half-dozen candidates.

4 years ago

File photo: Vice President Mike Pence listens after reading the final certification of Electoral College votes cast in November's presidential election during a joint session of Congress after working through the night, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool)
Politics & Policy

Pence: Trump is ‘wrong’ to say election could be overturned

Pence is responding to Trump’s intensifying efforts this week to advance the false narrative that he could have done something to prevent Joe Biden from taking office.

4 years ago

Pennsylvania State Rep. Mike Driscoll. (Pennsylvania House)
Politics & Policy

Philadelphia Democrats select state lawmaker to replace convicted Councilmember Bobby Henon

Mike Driscoll has been picked by ward leaders to be the Democratic candidate in a special election, virtually ensuring he will replace Bobby Henon on City Council.

4 years ago

Election workers scan ballots at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Pa. Commonwealth Court tosses no-excuse mail ballot law; appeal expected quickly

Gov. Tom Wolf has pledged to appeal the ruling to the state Supreme Court, which recent history suggests will reverse the decision.

4 years ago

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