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File photo: A demonstrator holding a cross protests outside of the U.S. Supreme Court, Thursday, May 5, 2022, in Washington.
Community

After leak, religious rift over legal abortion on display

The leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that could end or limit abortion access for millions has sent shockwaves through diverse faith communities.

4 years ago

People react as they stand next to a crater in destroyed residential area after Russian airstrike in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, May 7, 2022.
Community

Dozens feared dead after Russian bomb levels Ukraine school

Dozens of Ukrainians are feared dead after a Russian bomb destroyed a school sheltering about 90 people in eastern Ukraine.

4 years ago

U.S. first lady Jill Biden smiles at Ukraine's first lady, Olena Zelenska, as she gives her flowers.
Community

Jill Biden pays surprise visit to Ukraine, meets first lady

U.S. first lady Jill Biden has made an unannounced visit to western Ukraine, and held a surprise Mother’s Day meeting with the nation’s first lady, Olena Zelenska.

4 years ago

Customers wearing face masks shop at the Reading Terminal Market
PlanPhilly
Health
Eyes on the Street

Opinion: Philadelphia’s anti-mask attitudes end up being anti-Black

Public pressure on the new health commissioner to reverse a reinstatement of the Philly mask mandate ignored vaccination rates in minority communities.

4 years ago

Apprentice Priscilla Torres (center, in red) stands with (left to right) Councilmember Cherelle Parker, Carpenters Union Head William Sproule and Ryan Boyer, who runs the Building Trades Council. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Community

Philly trades unions show off skill and efforts to improve diversity at open house

The open house was a showcase for the best and brightest of the Carpenters Union at their training center in Northeast Philadelphia.

4 years ago

Puerto Rican artist Antonio Martorell stands in front of an artwork depicting a tree.
Arts & Entertainment

New exhibition at Taller Puertorriqueño takes a deeper look at Puerto Rico’s struggles

Antonio Martorell, 83, installed a tropical forest inside Taller Puertorriqueño in North Philadelphia for an exhibition about the island’s woes.

4 years ago

File photo: President Donald Trump looks at his phone during a roundtable with governors on the reopening of America's small businesses, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, June 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Courts & Law

Judge rejects Trump lawsuit challenging ban from Twitter

The judge says the challenges failed in part because free speech rights don't apply to private companies and Trump failed to show it was working as a state actor.

4 years ago

In this April 19, 2015 file photo, Mickey Gilley poses with the triple crown award on the red carpet at the 50th annual Academy of Country Music Awards at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Country music artist Gilley and his son were injured in a car accident in Texas, but both are recovering after minor injuries. A statement from Gilley's publicist on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018, said the two were injured Wednesday when their car rolled over. (Photo by Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP, File)
Arts & Entertainment

Mickey Gilley, who helped inspire ‘Urban Cowboy,’ dies at 86

He was known for such hits as “Window Up Above" and for the Texas honky-tonk he owned that inspired the hit film “Urban Cowboy."

4 years ago

In this courtroom sketch, Frank James, seated at center of right table, and on left of the screen, upper right, appears during the brief proceeding in a federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Thursday, April 14, 2022. James, accused of opening fire on a crowded subway train in Brooklyn, was ordered held without bail as prosecutors told a judge Thursday he terrified all of New York City
Courts & Law

Grand jury indicts suspect in Brooklyn subway mass shooting

The panel charged Frank James with committing a terrorist attack or other violence against a mass transportation system and discharging a firearm during a violent crime.

4 years ago

PHL Pride Collective volunteers. (Courtesy of PHL Pride Collective)
Community

A ‘reimagined’ Pride weekend is coming back to Philly in June: Here’s what to expect

After two years without a Pride festival in Philadelphia, the weekend-long celebration of the LGBTQ+ community is returning in June.

4 years ago

Philadelphia 76ers' Joel Embiid warms up  before Game 3 of an NBA basketball second-round playoff series against the Miami Heat, Friday, May 6, 2022, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Arts & Entertainment

Embiid’s return for 76ers changes dynamic of Heat series

His mere presence in the lineup changed the 76ers' fortunes in Game 3 — and perhaps their chances against Miami in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

4 years ago

Servicemen of Russian Army and Donetsk People's Republic militia guard the camp where local residents who left a shelter in the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal temporary staying in Bezimenne, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Friday, May 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)
Politics & Policy

Ukraine: Women, kids, older adults evacuated from steel mill

Iryna Veheshchuk says that “This part of the Mariupol humanitarian operation has been completed.” She did not elaborate.

4 years ago

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Community
6abc

Philadelphia officials investigate after 3-story home partially collapses in Manayunk

L&I has declared the property structurally unsound. The homeowner has 30 days to demolish or repair the home.

4 years ago

Food and Drug Administration building is shown Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Health

CDC probing 109 liver illnesses in kids, including 5 deaths

U.S. health officials are now looking into more than 100 possible cases of a mysterious and severe liver disease in children, including five deaths.

4 years ago

First lady Jill Biden and first lady of Romania Carmen Iohannis visit the Școala Gimnaziala Uruguay, or Uruguay School, in Bucharest Romania, Saturday, May 7, 2022. Biden visited several classrooms to visit with children and the educators who are helping teach displaced Ukrainian children
Politics & Policy

Jill Biden hears heartbreak of Ukrainian moms now in Romania

The American first lady praised the Romanian government and relief organizations for the range of humanitarian aid they are providing to refugees.

4 years ago

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