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File photo: Jada Pinkett Smith, left, and Will Smith hold hands in the audience at the Oscars in Los Angeles on March 27, 2022. Will Smith stunned the audience of the 94th Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday when he walked onstage and slapped comedian Chris Rock over a joke the presenter made about his wife. Pinkett Smith turned her husband’s Oscar-night blowup into a teachable moment on “Red Table Talk,” her Facebook Watch show on June 1. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
Arts & Entertainment

Pinkett Smith talks hair-loss ‘shame,’ outcome of Oscar slap

Pinkett Smith said she hopes the two men can “heal, talk this out, and reconcile.”

4 years ago

Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff visit a memorial near the site of the Buffalo supermarket shooting after attending a memorial service for Ruth Whitfield, one of the victims of the shooting, Saturday, May 28, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Courts & Law

Jury indicts Buffalo shooting suspect on terrorism charge

The suspect had previously been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting, which also injured three people. He has pleaded not guilty.

4 years ago

Richard Michetti outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in a photo submitted by the FBI to the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia. (FBI)
Courts & Law

Delco man pleads guilty to felony charge in riot at U.S. Capitol

A suburban Philadelphia man charged in the January 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol after he was turned in by an ex-girlfriend after reportedly insulting her intelligence.

4 years ago

The Pennsylvania Judicial Center in Harrisburg
Courts & Law
Spotlight PA

Pennsylvania’s highest court could give cities the go-ahead to craft their own gun laws

Three distinct suits are being appealed to the state’s highest court, all arguing that cities and municipalities in Pennsylvania should be allowed to pass their own gun laws.

4 years ago

Supporters of Amazon workers gather outside a warehouse in Bellmawr
Community

Bellmawr Amazon workers walk off the job in protest of facility transfers

Workers say they were told most of them would be transferred to Amazon’s West Deptford facility, but many are being sent to facilities much further away.

4 years ago

Kathy McGuiness headshot
Courts & Law

About-face in Delaware auditor’s trial: Prosecutors seek change of venue to Kent County

The judge had indicated that the state risked triggering double jeopardy if they tried the case in New Castle County.

4 years ago

A headshot of Sarah Glover
Community

Sarah Glover to lead WHYY’s radio, TV, and digital news operations

Glover is currently the managing editor of Minnesota Public Radio’s MPR News.

4 years ago

Incinerators are one of the uses that would come under enhanced DEP permitting scrutiny. (Massachusetts DEP via Creative Commons CC BY 2.0)
Politics & Policy
NJ Spotlight

N.J. DEP spells out new permitting standards for ‘overburdened communities’

Two years after the governor signed it, specifics are coming into view on how environmental-justice law will be applied.

4 years ago

Pedestrians walk past Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Courts & Law

Lawsuit alleges security failures in murder of nursing assistant at Jefferson University Hospital

The alleged gunman Stacey Hayes is accused of walking into the hospital and killing nursing assistant Anrae James.

4 years ago

A back door at Robb Elementary School
Courts & Law

Texas police: School door shut but didn’t lock before attack

Investigators initially said a teacher propped the door open before 18-year-old Salvador Ramos entered the school in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24.

4 years ago

Bill Cosby
Courts & Law

Distraught teen told of Cosby sex abuse, friend testifies

Opening statements began in the trial stemming from the lawsuit of Judy Huth, who alleges Cosby forced her to perform a sex act at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was 16.

4 years ago

An electron microscope image shows monkeypox virus particles.
Health

‘This is a pox virus we know a lot about.’ Infectious disease experts in the region say monkeypox is familiar, preventable

The monkeypox outbreak may feel familiar to COVID-19, but infectious disease experts say we have the tools and knowledge to stop the spread.

4 years ago

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Education

Penn’s medical school partners with HBCUs to attract more Black students into medicine

The PASS program allows undergraduate students to shadow physicians, participate in student-led clinics, and create support networks with faculty.

4 years ago

Two artists are visible in the background, with a wooden object from the exhibition in the foreground.
PlanPhilly
Arts & Entertainment

This immersive sound installation brings you inside the Schuylkill River

A rushing river is a familiar sound. But underwater, there’s a whole other sonic world — where insects drum, fish click, and bubbles burst.

4 years ago

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FILE - A man walks next to heavily damaged buildings and destroyed cars following Russian attacks in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. The region, along with neighboring Luhansk, is part of the Donbas, where Russian forces have focused their offensive. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
Politics & Policy

Biden says U.S. sending medium-range rocket systems to Ukraine

The rocket systems are part of a new $700 million tranche of security assistance for Ukraine from the U.S.

4 years ago

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