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Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson takes her seat before the start of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday, March 21, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Courts & Law

Murkowski, Romney to support Jackson for Supreme Court

Monday's committee vote was delayed when one senator's plane was delayed bringing him back to Washington.

4 years ago

Soldiers walk amid destroyed Russian tanks in Bucha
Community

Russia faces global outrage over bodies in Ukraine’s streets

European leaders and the United Nations human rights chief condemned the bloodshed, some of them also branding it genocide.

4 years ago

Drivers are shown on their way to Seaside Heights
Community

Study finds 1 in 5 N.J. drivers distracted ahead of new awareness campaign

A new study from Rowan University found that 1 in 5 state drivers are distracted. It comes ahead of a new awareness campaign.

4 years ago

A PET scan in process at Adler Imaging. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health

How advances in heart imaging can help improve diagnoses

Nuclear imaging has significantly improved the accuracy of stress tests, to diagnose conditions like coronary artery disease.

4 years ago

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Anthony Mohamed performs at Camden's IDEA Center
Arts & Entertainment

Camden’s IDEA Center celebrates National Poetry Month by honoring late poets

Jazz on Market in Camden celebrates the late Sandra Turner-Barnes and Lamont Dixon and their artistic contributions. It’s the first event at their new Market Street home.

4 years ago

Jon Batiste performs a medley at the 31st annual MusiCares Person of the Year benefit gala honoring Joni Mitchell on Friday, April 1, 2022, at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas.
Arts & Entertainment

Jon Batiste wins 4 Grammy Awards in early ceremony

Philly's own Questlove won his sixth Grammy for best music film through “Summer of Soul (... Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised.”)

4 years ago

John Legend accepts the Global Impact Award at the Recording Academy Honors Presented By The Black Music Collective on Saturday, April 2, 2022, at Resorts World Las Vegas.
Arts & Entertainment

John Legend honored at Grammys’ Black Music Collective event

Legend explained how Black music has set trends for worldwide listeners during the academy’s Black Music Collective event, held Saturday night in Las Vegas.

4 years ago

A woman walks amid destroyed Russian tanks in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022.
Community

Ukraine accuses retreating Russians of civilian massacre

Ukrainian troops are finding brutalized bodies and widespread destruction in the suburbs of Kyiv, sparking calls for a war crimes investigation and sanctions against Russia.

4 years ago

A roadblock is set a block away from the scene of an apparent mass shooting in Sacramento, Calif., Sunday, April 3, 2022.
Community

California mass shooting: 6 dead, 12 injured in Sacramento

Police in California are searching for at least one suspect in connection with a mass shooting early Sunday that claimed six lives and left 12 other people injured.

4 years ago

Signs advertise free Naloxone at a health event.
Politics & Policy

States look for solutions as U.S. fentanyl deaths keep rising

With fentanyl driving fatal overdoses to record levels in the U.S., state governments are scrambling for solutions.

4 years ago

Montgomery County Community College. (Courtesy of Montgomery County Community College)
Community

How Montgomery County hopes to entice workers in a competitive market

Caseworkers, 911 telecommunicators, correctional officers, workers in congregate care settings, public defenders are among the help wanted.

4 years ago

Darrell Clarke gestures while speaking from a podium, with other elected officials behind him
Politics & Policy

Philly lawmaker wants to resurrect community policing

City Council President Clarke’s goal is to embed officers in communities to build relationships that could lead to a decrease in the violence that has plagued Philadelphia.

4 years ago

Vehicles are under water during flooding in Norristown
Community

How is Montgomery County preparing for future floods?

The county is now acquiring land where three homes were damaged by Hurricane Ida along the Perkiomen Trail in Perkiomen Township, on a flood plain.

4 years ago

Philadelphia 76ers' Joel Embiid (left) goes up for the shot against Charlotte Hornets' Mason Plumlee, right, during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Saturday, April 2, 2022, in Philadelphia.

Embiid, Harris help lead 76ers to 144-114 rout of Hornets

Philadelphia tied its franchise record of 21 3-pointers, last set on March 1, 2020.

4 years ago

Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Keith Yandle (3) and Minnesota Wild right wing Mats Zuccarello (36) battle for the puck in the third period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, March 29, 2022, in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Andy Clayton-King)

Keith Yandle’s “Iron Man” NHL streak ends at 989

The 35-year-old Yandle started his streak March 26, 2009, with Phoenix. He passed retired center Doug Jarvis for the mark of 965 games on Jan. 25 against the Islanders.

4 years ago

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