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Education

Legacy admissions offer an advantage — and not just at schools like Harvard

For years, Harvard University's admissions office has given a "tip" to legacy students, or students with at least one parent who graduated from Harvard.

7 years ago

Democrat Andy Kim speaks to campaign volunteers at a home in Brick, New Jersey on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018. (Joe Hernandez/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

MacArthur, Kim make final pitches to South Jersey voters

The battle in N.J.’s 3rd Congressional District, which stretches across Burlington and Ocean counties, has been a close race with national implications.

7 years ago

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This July 16, 2013 file photo shows a sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.  (Ben Margot/AP Photo, File)
Community

Social media’s misinformation battle: No winners, so far

Caught embarrassingly off-guard, technology giants have thrown millions of dollars, tens of thousands of people into fighting fake news, propaganda and hate.

7 years ago

Two young people speak at a rally Monday in Seattle. The Supreme Court said it would not stop the lawsuit that inspired this rally, along with others in Portland and Eugene, Ore.
(Elaine Thompson/AP)
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Courts & Law

Young activists can sue government over climate change, Supreme Court says

The trial could start as early as mid-November.

7 years ago

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Courts & Law
PlanPhilly

Judge could force SEPTA to end ban on political ads

A fed. judge may force SEPTA to scale back its effort to keep politically charged advertisements off its bus shelters and vehicles when he issues a decision later this month

7 years ago

People protesting against President Trump gather near the Tree of Life Congregation on Wednesday in Pittsburgh, Pa. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
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Community

Poll: Nearly 4-in-5 voters concerned incivility will lead to violence

42 percent say the president is the most to blame, while about a quarter to a third say the media is the most to blame.

7 years ago

Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. Menendez took a business-as-usual approach Monday when he returned to Congress for the first time since his April 1 indictment on federal corruption charges.
The Why
Politics & Policy

Battle of the Bobs

Despite running for reelection in a historically blue state, New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez is struggling to maintain a lead over Republican challenger Bob Hugin.

Air Date: November 1, 2018

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State Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown D-Philadelphia, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Pennsylvania House lawmaker convicted of taking cash bribes

A Harrisburg jury found Philadelphia Democratic Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown guilty of bribery.

7 years ago

(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Radio Times
Courts & Law

Transgender rights: #WontBeErased

Guests: Heath Fogg Davis, Leonore Carpenter, Nadia Dowshen The Trump administration is considering legally defini ...

Air Date: November 1, 2018 10:00 am

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The special counsel's office says it has referred an alleged scheme to make false claims against Robert Mueller to the FBI.
(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call,Inc.)
NPR
Courts & Law

Mueller’s office notifies FBI of alleged scheme involving harassment claim

A spokesman for Mueller confirmed the referral on Tuesday in a statement.

7 years ago

Melanie Manuel, left, and Chris Thomas on Portobello Road, just a block from their Notting Hill flat in London. Like thousands of other Pennsylvanians living abroad, Manuel and Thomas were initially blocked from applying for their absentee ballots because the Pa. Department of State website can’t be accessed from a foreign country (Jim Saksa/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Pennsylvanians abroad run into online roadblocks for absentee voting

Pennsylvanian expats have run into a roadblock trying to access absentee ballots: The Department of State website can’t be accessed from a foreign country.

7 years ago

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, looks at the crowd of supporters with Sen. Bob Casey at a rally outside the Lancaster, Pa., train station Saturday, April 19, 2008.
The Why
Politics & Policy

Bob Casey’s Unlikely Alliance

Do Bob Casey's close relationships with pro-abortion rights progressives put his anti-abortion position in doubt?

Air Date: October 30, 2018

Listen 15:07
In this aerial photo, sand fills the streets in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, along the central Jersey Shore. (Mike Groll/AP Photo)
Down the Shore
Politics & Policy

N.J. announces $50M fund for 1,200 families still rebuilding after Sandy

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has ordered a $50 million appropriation to assist hundreds of families still rebuilding six years after the massive storm struck.

7 years ago

Anti-abortion demonstrators, including Phyllis Schlafly, foreground, rally at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 29, 1992. The high court upheld most provisions of a restrictive Pennsylvania abortion law.
The Why
Courts & Law

Deja Roe

A Pennsylvania case that got to the Supreme Court in 1992 could have spelled the end for Roe vs. Wade.

Air Date: October 29, 2018

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Appellate court nominees Bridget S. Bade and Eric D. Miller are sworn in during a hearing held by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. Only two senators — Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, and Orrin Hatch, R-Utah — were in attendance. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

Trump, Republicans continue remaking the federal courts — even as Senate on recess

President Trump and Senate Republicans are remaking the federal courts in their own image.

7 years ago

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