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Rep. Ilhan Omar, (D-Minn.), is the first Muslim women in Congress. She has been the target of criticism and censure for statements regarded as anti-Semitic. Many other prominent black Muslim leaders say her experience is familiar. (Susan Walsh/AP)
NPR
Community

American Muslims in public life say they face outsized scrutiny

At a rally on Capitol Hill organized by black women leaders in support of Ilhan Omar, the embattled Democratic congresswoman addressed the crowd.

7 years ago

Democratic candidates for mayor Alan Butkovitz, left, state Sen. Anthony Hardy Williams, right, and Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, center, participate in a live televised debate, Monday May 13, 2019, at the Comcast Technology Center  in Philadelphia.  NBC10 Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek, Pool
Politics & Policy
Billy Penn

Philly candidates for mayor spar on crime, poverty in only televised debate

As Kenney faced off against state Sen. Anthony Williams and former City Controller Alan Butkovitz, the race showed its first signs of a pulse.

7 years ago

Listen 1:47
Delaware State House
Politics & Policy

Measures focused on gun safety stall in Delaware

Two hours of testimony concerning tightened regulations on firearms convinced Delaware Senate leaders to hold the proposals for further modification.

7 years ago

Mothers bring life to a world where death too often holds sway. They 
 bring authenticity to a world where relationships are often fake. (lastudio87/Big Stock)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Politics & Policy
The Philadelphia Experiment

We need more mothers

Mothers bring life to a world where death too often holds sway. They bring authenticity to a world where relationships are often fake.

7 years ago

HUD Secretary Ben Carson is portraying the proposed change as a way to help low-income Americans who are in need of housing assistance. (Shannon Finney/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

Proposed rule could evict 55,000 children from subsidized housing

Tens of thousands of poor children — all of them American citizens or legal residents — could lose their housing under a new rule proposed Friday by the Trump administration.

7 years ago

The Pennsylvania State Capitol is seen in this file photo. (Tom Downing/WITF)
Courts & Law

Judicial merit selection supporters trying to woo votes in Pa.

The state House is torn over how to update the system Pennsylvania uses to get judges onto its three highest courts.

7 years ago

The myth that vaccines cause autism has persisted, even though the facts paint an entirely different story. (Renee Klahr)
NPR
Lifestyle

Facts aren’t enough: The psychology of false beliefs

This week on Hidden Brain, we look at how we rely on people we trust to shape our beliefs, and why emotion can be more powerful than facts.

7 years ago

Protestors called for Representative Brian Sims to resign outside the Planned Parenthood Clinic on Locust Street in Center City Friday morning.(Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Hundreds rally outside Philly Planned Parenthood, call for Sims’ resignation

State Rep. Brian Sims self-recorded two videos as he harassed anti-abortion demonstrators outside a Planned Parenthood facility in Center City. Backlash has been swift.

7 years ago

People walk by the Pennsylvania Judicial Center at the state Capitol in Harrisburg.
Courts & Law

Pa. House settles on rural-friendly path for updating judicial elections

Pa. state House members appear to have decided on a way to overhaul judicial elections. For a few weeks, they have been debating competing bills.

7 years ago

The indictment against Daniel Hale includes a chart of secret and top secret documents that he acquired and printed.
(Screenshot by NPR)
NPR
Courts & Law

U.S. charges former intelligence analyst with leaking classified data to reporter

The Justice Department says Daniel Everette Hale, of Nashville, Tenn., used his top-secret computer to print out dozens of documents related to counterterrorism operations.

7 years ago

Donald Trump ascends the stairs with his fist raised from the genie's lamp after opening the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort in a spectacular show of fireworks and laser lights Thursday evening in Atlantic City, N.J., on April 5, 1990.  Behind Trump is the 42-story hotel.  (AP Photo/Chaarles Rex Arbogast)
Politics & Policy

Newspaper: Trump lost more than $1 billion from 1985 to 1994

The New York Times says Trump reported business losses of $46.1 million in 1985, and a total of $1.17 billion in losses for the 10-year period.

7 years ago

Neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other alt-right factions scuffled with counter-demonstrators near Emancipation Park (Formerly
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Racial resentment and white extremism in America

The FBI recently warned that white extremist violence is a "persistent and pervasive threat" in America.

Air Date: May 7, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:42
In this May 31, 2018, file photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks during a visit of the Federal School Safety Commission at Hebron Harman Elementary School in Hanover, Md. Education, it’s safe to say, is not President Donald Trump’s top priority. Instead, he entrusts that realm to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who after two years has emerged as one of the most polarizing figures in the Cabinet but also one of its most enduring members. (Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo)
Education

Education head DeVos: Polarizing but enduring Cabinet member

While the White House focuses on issues such as immigration and the economy, DeVos has been free to continue her push for school choice.

7 years ago

Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former personal attorney, leaves his apartment, Friday, May 3, 2019, in New York. Cohen is scheduled to report to the Otisville Federal Correctional Facility in upstate New York on Monday to begin serving his three year prison term for tax evasion, lying to Congress and campaign finance crimes. (Kathy Willens/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Prosecutors refuse final meeting with Cohen as prison looms

For months, President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen tried — but failed — to position himself as a whistleblower in the vein of Watergate hero John Dean.

7 years ago

Students walk the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo, file)
Community
The Philadelphia Tribune

U.S. Small Business Administration needs to do more for HBCUs, Evans says

The U.S. Small Business Administration is not doing what it is supposed to do to help historically Black colleges and universities, Congressman Dwight Evans said this week.

7 years ago

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