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This Oct. 1, 2020 photo shows windmills at a utility plant in Atlantic City N.J.
Community

N.J. offshore wind developer Orsted inks deal to use all union labor

N.J. offshore wind developer commits to all union labor. Building trades will develop apprenticeship programs to include women, people of color and the formerly incarcerated.

4 years ago

Demonstrators hold sign sin support of LGBTQ people outside a school board meeting
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Nonbinary student denied choice of health class at Central Bucks school

Students who are gender-nonconforming or trans could access health classes by attending the classroom corresponding to the student’s sex assigned at birth.

4 years ago

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Briana Mitchell and her daughter Pia spent part of Mother's Day learning hula hoop tricks at Spruce Street Harbor Park, with the help of performers Kelsey Lee (far left) and Jennifer Alvarez.
Community

Spruce Street Harbor Park reopens on a drizzly Mother’s Day weekend

The weather dampened opening weekend for the season, but some families braved the cold wind to celebrate.

4 years ago

The United World College of the American West sits empty of students but unharmed, while trees can be seen behind it scorched from Las Vegas, N.M., on Saturday, May 7, 2022. School officials were able to visit the grounds earlier this week after winds and fires waned. Students at the boarding school most of whom are from overseas, have been moved to a summer camp outside Santa Fe, N.M.
Community

Dangerous winds, wildfire conditions returning to New Mexico

Dangerous gusts are picking up again, hampering efforts to battle a wildfire in northeast New Mexico that has burned an area twice as large as the city of Philadelphia.

4 years ago

French President Emmanuel Macron is seen from behind, seated at a table, participating in a video conference with leaders of the other G7 countries.
Politics & Policy

G-7 leaders mark VE Day stressing unity, support for Ukraine

Leaders from the G7 developed democracies have pledged to phasing out or banning the import of Russian oil, as they met with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

4 years ago

FMC employees sit at individual tables
Community

Workers grapple with new stresses as they return to office

As more companies mandate a return to the office, workers must readjust to pre-pandemic rituals like long commutes, juggling child care and interacting with colleagues.

4 years ago

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

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