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N.J. opens vaccine eligibility to residents 65 and older, people with chronic conditions
Starting Thursday, New Jersey residents aged 65 and older, as well as residents aged 16 to 64 with chronic medical conditions, will be eligible for a vaccine.
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‘It’s critical to have cultural competency’: Suburban health care experts tackle vaccine mistrust
The Montgomery County Immunization Coalition and the TriCounty Health Council brought together a panel of community leaders to talk about the issue.
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Pa. coronavirus update: Montco rolls out weekly testing for teachers, at-risk students
Regional Congregate Care Assistance Teams will replace the old program with $12 million in funding that will run through the end of February.
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Prosecutors ask judge to order former Penn State president Graham Spanier to report to jail
The attorney general's office wrote in a Monday letter to Judge John Boccabella that no legal impediment prevents him from enforcing the minimum jail sentence of two months.
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‘Too much too fast’: Teachers union objects to Delaware schools’ hybrid return
Even as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage across Delaware, Gov. John Carney says schools have proven to be safe spaces for students and teachers.
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Philadelphia board wants to confront equity issues and old assumptions, its president says
Rethinking everything about how the board does business, including long-held practices, is the impetus for the board’s new “goals and guardrails” initiative.
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House votes to impeach Trump for ‘incitement of insurrection’ — Pa. delegation split
All nine Democrats voted to impeach the president on a charge of “incitement of insurrection,” and all nine Republicans voted against Trump’s removal.
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Rep. Mikie Sherrill said she intends to take action against members of congress who she saw taking groups through the Capitol on Jan. 5.
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Airbnb to block, cancel reservations in D.C next week
Airbnb says it will be blocking and canceling reservations in the Washington, D.C. area during the week of the presidential inauguration.
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Penn surgeon-turned-patient on surviving a stroke while hospitalized with COVID-19
"Morning Edition" host Jennifer Lynn speaks with Penn surgeon Dr. Matthew Beshara, who suffered a stroke while he was hospitalized with COVID-19.
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Listen 4:37US COVID-19 deaths hit another one-day high at over 4,300
The nation’s overall death toll from COVID-19 has eclipsed 380,000, closing in fast on the number of Americans killed in World War II, or about 407,000.
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Republicans who back the measure say the idea would give voters in rural Pennsylvania a greater voice to elect judges.
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FBI says it warned about prospect of violence ahead of Capitol riot
A Jan. 5 report from an FBI’s field office forecast, in detail, the chances that extremists could commit “war” in Washington the following day.
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Trump impeached after Capitol riot in historic second charge
Trump faces a single charge, “incitement of insurrection," after telling a mob of loyalists to, as he put it, “fight like hell” against election results.
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Philly growers spoke out. The result is an ‘anti-racist lens’ for city’s first agricultural plan
During 2020’s racial reckoning, Black gardeners and white urban designers working on a city plan realized they needed to confront harmful racial dynamics.
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