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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., walks past reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Money

Shutdown deadline looms over COVID-19 relief talks

Government funding lapses at midnight Friday and a partial, low-impact shutdown would ensue if Congress fails to pass a stopgap spending bill before then.

6 years ago

Exterior of the Supreme Court
Courts & Law

High court rules challenge to Trump census plan is premature

The three liberal justices dissented, saying the effort to exclude people in the country from the population for divvying up House seats is unlawful.

6 years ago

Bob Schwartz, the director of marketing of the Trapp Family Lodge poses outside the lodge on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 in Stowe, Vt. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)
Community

Winter travel raises more fears of viral spread

In the U.S., AAA predicts that about 85 million people will travel between Dec. 23 and Jan. 3, most of them by car.

6 years ago

Vice President Mike Pence receives a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shot at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Health

Pence, top congressional leaders get COVID-19 vaccines

In remarks after his shot, Pence called the speed with which the vaccine was developed "a medical miracle.”

6 years ago

(Tim Tai/ Philadelphia Inquirer)
Courts & Law
Spotlight PA

An incarcerated man died of the coronavirus, but Pa. corrections never told his family

State corrections officials say they are following the law in protecting medical information, but family and advocates contend they could do more when prisoners get sick.

6 years ago

Composer Randy Gibson walking the trails of Tacony Creek Park
Arts & Entertainment

Philly composer writes a series of jazz and blues songs inspired by Tacony Creek

Randy Gibson’s seven-song Tacony Creek Suite responds to George Floyd, the coronavirus pandemic and its titular water source.

6 years ago

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Fresh crayons and markers await preschool students.
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Pa.’s free pre-K program provides a meaningful math and language boost, says new study

Those results were consistent across the state, in urban and rural areas alike. And they remained evident in the second half of kindergarten.

6 years ago

Protesters exchange points of view outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center where votes were being counted, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020, in Philadelphia, following the Nov. 3 election. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Keystone Crossroads
Community
America Amplified

Trump, Biden, COVID: Perfect recipe for a deeply divided family Christmas

As the pandemic surges and the hyper-polarization of the election has yet to wane, preparing for the holidays this year is causing many families to navigate deep divides.

6 years ago

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Pre-k teacher Monica Alvarez cleans and disinfects teaching tools as she prepares her classroom
Education

Rural schools need help to make remote learning accessible to all

Countless children in small towns across are being robbed of their right to learn and develop, writes Edward Albert of the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools.

6 years ago

Then-Democratic presidential candidate Corey booker speaks during the National Urban League Conference  in Indianapolis, in this Thursday, July 25, 2019, file photo. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
Politics & Policy

Booker, Democratic lawmakers introduce NCAA reform bill

If passed, it could wreak havoc on the NCAA's ability to govern intercollegiate athletics and the association's model for amateurism.

6 years ago

The U.S. Treasury Department building viewed from the Washington Monument, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Politics & Policy

Hack against US is ‘grave threat,’ cybersecurity agency says

The hack compromised federal agencies and “critical infrastructure” in a sophisticated attack that was hard to detect and will be difficult to undo.

6 years ago

Then-mayoral candidate Eddie Moran gives a speech to supporters gathered at Jet Set Restaurant in Reading, Pennsylvania on Nov. 2, 2019. (Matt Smith for Keystone Crossroads)
Politics & Policy

This Pa. mayor’s trip to Puerto Rico during the pandemic drew criticism, attention to Latino health disparities

Trips like Mayor Eddie Moran’s are by no means prohibited by any law or mandate, but they cut against the new social norms brought about by the coronavirus.

6 years ago

In this March 22, 2019, file photo, Heather Randazzo, a grow employee at Compassionate Care Foundation's medical marijuana dispensary, trims leaves off marijuana plants in the company's grow house in Egg Harbor Township, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Courts & Law

N.J. lawmakers approve bill regulating new recreational marijuana market

After years of false starts, the New Jersey Legislature on Thursday passed a bill to set up the state’s budding recreational marijuana market.

6 years ago

The West Avenue Grille in Jenkintown, Pa. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Montco announces new grant program ‘specifically for the restaurant industry’

Starting Dec. 30, restaurants and food service businesses can apply for $10,000 through the MontcoStrong 2021 Restaurant Grant Program.

6 years ago

Nurse Kathe Olmstead prepares a shot as the world's biggest study of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., gets underway Monday, July 27, 2020, in Binghamton, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)
Health

2nd COVID-19 vaccine set for OK in US with panel endorsement

The FDA is expected to follow the recommendation for the vaccine from Moderna and the National Institutes of Health.

6 years ago

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