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President Joe Biden speaks about the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022 at the Shipyards in Lorain, Ohio.(
Politics & Policy

President Biden signs stopgap spending bill averting shutdown

President Joe Biden on Friday signed a bipartisan bill to extend government funding for three weeks to give Congress more time to reach a ...

4 years ago

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., on Jan. 10, 2022. On Friday, Feb. 18, 2022, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced legislation aimed at letting private citizens file lawsuits to enforce a ban on assault weapons. The bill is modeled after a Texas law that lets private citizens enforce a ban on abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected
Politics & Policy

California bill would allow citizens to enforce weapons ban

A California bill would allow private citizens to go after gun makers in the same way Texas allows them to target abortion providers.

4 years ago

Matin Fahim is pictured at his workspace
Arts & Entertainment
Love Now Media

Love sewn across generations

“I tapped into my grandmother’s energy and never looked back,” said designer Matin Fahim.

4 years ago

Kamila Valieva, of the Russian Olympic Committee, talks with her coach Eteri Tutberidze after the women's free skate program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing
Arts & Entertainment

After skating debacle, IOC president takes rare shots at Russians

Millions of viewers watching one of the marquee Olympic events cringed when Valieva's coach greeted her with criticism after a mistake-filled routine.

4 years ago

In this screen grab from video, former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter listens during a sentencing hearing Feb. 18, 2022 at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. Potter, who said she confused her Taser and her handgun before shooting Wright during a traffic stop, was convicted of first- and second-degree manslaughter in Wright
Courts & Law

Judge sentences cop who killed Daunte Wright to 2 years

The former suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser when she fatally shot Daunte Wright has been sentenced to two years in prison.

4 years ago

The Schuylkill River exceeds its bank in the Manayunk sectio
Politics & Policy

Race excluded as White House rolls out climate justice screening tool

“It’s a major disappointment and it’s a major flaw in trying to identify those communities that have been hit hardest by pollution,” said Robert Bullard.

4 years ago

The cast of ''Choir Boy'' rehearsing on stage at the Philadelphia Theatre Company
Arts & Entertainment

‘We all have a strangeness’: Philadelphia Theatre Company opens ‘Choir Boy’

The Philadelphia Theatre Company opens the Tony-winning Broadway show about all-Black prep school gospel choir.

4 years ago

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A promotional image shows Philly business owners
Community

Trolley tour celebrates Black women-owned businesses in Philly

The weekly two-hour tour includes stops at Harriett’s, Franny Lou’s Porch, Freedom Apothecary, Marsh + Mane, and Yowie.

4 years ago

Briarcliffe Fire Company
Community

‘The trust is gone’: Fallout in Darby Twp. after some firefighters’ racist remarks go public

Some say the tension has been there all along in the town, which is physically and largely racially divided. The recorded comments are proof, they say.

4 years ago

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Drexel Students Jeremy Wortzel and Lena Champlin wrote a children’s book about climate change. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Science

A West Philly couple wrote a children’s book to help parents have ‘The Climate Talk’

Lena Champlin, Jeremy Wortzel, and the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry wrote a children’s book about climate change and anxiety.

4 years ago

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Community
6abc

Yeadon Borough Council votes to fire police chief after allegations of overspending

After weeks of controversy, the Yeadon Borough Council has voted to fire its current police chief.

4 years ago

Teacher Laura Kangay, (center) helps a student with his reading at Lincoln Middle School Friday, Sept. 30, 2011 in Lancaster, Pa. Financial woes have forced school districts to shed thousands of teaching jobs, adopt a four-day school week and cut electives such as art. And the budget situation probably won’t improve any time soon for school districts that rely heavily on state and local tax dollars. But what might happen in a best-case financial scenario that assumes strong economic growth next year?
Keystone Crossroads
Education

From pupil counting to plagiarism, Pa.’s school funding trial takes twists during defense phase

From money matters to plagiarism accusations, the defense portion of Pa.’s historic school funding trial took several twists over the last few weeks.

4 years ago

Pa. Supreme Court building
Courts & Law

The Pa. Supreme Court prepares to decide how to draw the state’s Congressional districts

Candidates were supposed to have been working to get on the ballot by now, but the state's election schedule is on ice because new political maps are not in place yet.

4 years ago

Norristown, Pa. in Montgomery County. (Wikimedia Commons)
Community

Montgomery County calls on residents and organizations to submit ideas for American Rescue Plan funding

With $161 million to disburse, the county will host three town halls next week, in person and virtually, to offer more details on the process.

4 years ago

In this Oct. 22, 2019 file photo, pipes lay along a construction site on the Mariner East pipeline in a residential neighborhood in Exton, Pa
Community

Mariner East pipeline project is finished, after years of environmental damage, construction delays

Energy Transfer says it has completed the troubled 350-mile-long natural gas liquids pipeline, two years behind the initial schedule.

4 years ago

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