ABC News- Harvey Weinstein, who was previously indicted on charges involving two women, was released on bail on Monday while fighting sex crime accusations that now include a third woman. “We fight these battles one day at a time, and today we won this round,” defense attorney Ben Brafman said outside court. Brafman said during the […]
Washington Post- Lawyers for the Trump administration on Friday asked a federal judge for more time to reunite immigrant children with their parents, the latest signal that the government is struggling to bring families back together after separating thousands as they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border earlier this year. U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego […]
CNN- Alabama Democratic Sen. Doug Jones said Sunday that he could vote either way on President Donald Trump’s yet-to-be announced nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. “I’m open to voting yes. I’m open to voting no. We don’t know who the nominee is going to be yet,” Jones told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State […]
Mayor Kenney faced a backlash from progressives after police officers on Thursday bike-dozed a modest encampment of protesters trying to shut down access to a local office for the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The mayor, who has held plenty of high-profile news conferences in City Hall to decry President Trump’s zero tolerance on immigration, […]
Philly.com- Nearly two dozen current and former members of the clergy are among those seeking to block the release of a highly anticipated grand jury report outlining decades of alleged sexual abuse by clergy in Catholic dioceses across the state, according to a court document filed Thursday. The revelation that clergy members are behind the fierce […]
CNN- The US economy added 213,000 jobs in June, another strong month of gains. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4% as more people entered the labor force looking for work. Although wages grew 2.7% from a year ago, they changed little from May. Wage growth came in below economists’ expectations, and is barely outpacing […]
CNN- Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has resigned after months of ethics controversies, citing “the unrelenting attacks” on himself and his family, which “have taken a sizable toll on all of us.” President Donald Trump first tweeted the news Thursday that Pruitt had resigned. “I have accepted the resignation of Scott Pruitt as the Administrator of […]
Ismael Jimenez, educator and co-chair of the Caucus of Working Educators, joined us this morning on Your Voice to tell us about the altercation between his family and the Cinemark Movie Theatre in West Philly. The movie theatre called the police on Jimenez when he tried to go back into the theatre to retrieve […]
CNN- The Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded a set of Obama-era policies that promoted using race to achieve diversity in schools, teeing up new battle lines over admissions standards. While the decision does not change current US law on affirmative action, it provides a strong illustration of the administration’s position on an issue that could take on […]
Philly.com- Philadelphia police are investigating the gunpoint sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl at the City Hall SEPTA station Tuesday night. Shortly before 10 p.m., police said, a man in his 20s approached the girl from behind and forced her to perform a sex act at gunpoint. The suspect was captured on surveillance footage and police […]
NY Post- A Maryland priest reportedly threw a grieving family out of church before their mother’s funeral. Rev. Michael Briese was caught on camera last week in a nasty confrontation with relatives of the late Agnes Hicks at Saint Mary’s Catholic Church in Charlotte Hall. The feud began when someone knocked over the church’s sacred chalice […]
Philly.com- Starbucks should identify potential patterns of discrimination in its hiring and survey the communities surrounding its stores to see whether residents — particularly those of color — feel welcomed, said a report released Monday that details how the company can address bias. The report comes a little more than a month after Starbucks shut all […]