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Washington Examiner- Special counsel Robert Mueller on Wednesday filed a request for 150 blank subpoenas in the Eastern District of Virginia, where former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort lives. The two-page filing reveals little, but says that that each subpoena recipient must appear in the Alexandria, Va., courthouse on July 25 to testify in the case. […]
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday split 3-3 on whether Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Genece Brinkley should remain on Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill’s gun-and-drug case, leaving Brinkley to preside over his post-conviction appeal. She is scheduled to hear an evidentiary hearing in the case Monday. In their order, the justices wrote that with “the […]
Philly.com- Philadelphia’s government has the worst accounting practices among the nation’s 10 largest cities, with $924 million in bookkeeping errors alone last year, according to an audit released Tuesday by City Controller Rebecca Rhynhart. That’s on top of the now-infamous missing $33 million, the discrepancy between what the city’s records say it has and what is […]
Atiya Myers joined us on Your Voice to talk about the recent deaths of celebrities Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade. She also discussed the signs of a sucidal person and what you can do to help them. To learn more about suicide prevention visit: Suicide Prevention Lifeline or call 1.800.273.8255.
Philly.com- The demolition notice distributed across parts of Bella Vista last week caught many South Philadelphia residents by surprise. “We are writing to inform you that we expect to begin demolishing our church on Monday, June 18,” began the letter, drafted by Christian Street Baptist Church Inc. “The proposed demolition is for the entire [two] story […]
AP News– A U.S. Supreme Court ruling has cleared the way for states to take a tougher approach to maintaining their voter rolls, but will they? Ohio plans to resume its process for removing inactive voters after it was affirmed in Monday’s 5-4 ruling. It takes a particularly aggressive approach that appears to be an […]
Singapore (CNN) –Nearly five hours of unprecedented and surreal talks between US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un culminated on Tuesday with fulsome declarations of a new friendship but just vague pledges of nuclear disarmament. For Trump, that amounted to a triumphant outcome in his extraordinary gamble with the rogue kingdom’s despotic leader. But there were […]
CBS News– Do you have to vote even if you don’t want to? Not doing so could put you on the path to losing your vote in some states. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on a lawsuit filed against Ohio’s secretary of state over the practice of flagging registered voters after […]
Philly.com- Nearly two months after two black men were arrested at a Center City Starbucks while waiting for a friend, the Philadelphia Police Department on Friday announced a policy to determine when to arrest people accused of trespassing on private property. The new policy encourages “greater discretion” from officers, who are now encouraged to deescalate disputes. […]
Solomon Jones – A black man was beaten by cops in Mesa Arizona, and once again, the whole thing was caught on video. And since I’m all out of outrage for a scene that’s all to common, I looked back on something I once said to a room full of black cops, because in reality, there’s […]
Colin Kaepernick and his lawyers are reportedly expected to seek a subpoena of President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to force them to testify in his collusion case against the NFL. Kaepernick’s team is attempting to show any potential influence the Trump administration had on Kaepernick’s free agency. Kaepernick contends teams colluded to […]
Mayor Kenney’s team had a strong message for City Council on Thursday: Its budget plan isn’t going to work. In a briefing with reporters, Kenney’s top finance aides said the funding package for the city’s schools that lawmakers put together this week falls $240 million short of what is needed for the next five fiscal […]