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It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.

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The exterior of John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls’ High School
Education

Archdiocese of Philadelphia to close two high schools in 2021

John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls High School in Philadelphia and Bishop McDevitt High School in Wyncote will shutter due to declining enrollment.

6 years ago

FILE - This Feb. 19, 2019 file photo shows former President Barack Obama speaking at the My Brother's Keeper Alliance Summit in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
Arts & Entertainment

Barack Obama memoir off to record-setting start in sales

Former President Barack Obama's “A Promised Land” sold nearly 890,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada in its first 24 hours.

6 years ago

Republican canvas observer Ed White, center, and Democratic canvas observer Janne Kelhart, watch as Lehigh County workers count ballots as vote counting in the general election continues, Friday, Nov. 6, 2020, in Allentown, Pa. (Mary Altaffer/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Pa. House Republicans vote for election procedures study

Republicans pushed forward a proposal for a review of election procedures in Pa., although its author insisted he accepts voting results and is not trying to overturn them.

6 years ago

Charlie Brown Christmas special
Arts & Entertainment

Charlie Brown specials to air on TV, after all, in PBS deal

On Wednesday, Apple bowed to the backlash, announcing it had teamed up with PBS for ad-free broadcasts of “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” and "A Charlie Brown Christmas."

6 years ago

Zhanon Morales, 30, of Philadelphia, raises her fist as demonstrators call for all votes be counted during a rally outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Courts & Law

Pa. high court takes up Trump challenge to 8K Philly votes

The case involves 8,329 absentee and mail-in ballots where the voter signed their ballot’s outer envelope, but didn't handwrite their name, their address or a date on it.

6 years ago

The COVID-19 treatment center at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center.
Health

New COVID cluster at Delaware’s largest prison

As cases of coronavirus rise throughout Delaware, a group of people incarcerated at the state’s largest prison have been diagnosed with COVID-19.

6 years ago

The hands of five generations of women from a family that has worked on the same palm oil plantation since the early 1900s hold products made by iconic Western companies that source palm oil from Indonesia and Malaysia.
Money

Rape, abuses in palm oil fields linked to top beauty brands

An AP investigation focuses on the brutal treatment of women in the production of palm oil, including the hidden scourge of sexual abuse.

6 years ago

The Rocky statue is outfitted with a mock surgical face mask
Health

Pa. coronavirus update: Stay home for Thanksgiving, Farley advises

Speaking on ‘Radio Times,’ Philly Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley said getting tested is not a foolproof way to keep the virus away for the holiday.

6 years ago

A smartphone belonging to Drew Grande, 40, of Cranston, R.I., shows notes he made for contact tracing Wednesday, April 15, 2020. Grande began keeping a log on his phone at the beginning of April. (Steven Senne / AP Photo)

People distrust contact-tracing apps: Can a new approach help?

A team at Carnegie Mellon University thinks it can inspire greater buy-in with a new approach that helps users to prevent infection in the first place.

6 years ago

Coronavirus patient samples
Community

N.J. coronavirus update: Murphy among governors pushing for more testing at colleges

Gov. Phil Murphy joined his counterparts in five other states to urge colleges and universities to make COVID-19 testing available.

6 years ago

FILE- In a Nov. 7, 2020 file photo, a supporter of President Donald Trump is seen during a rally in Milwaukee after it was announced that the president was defeated by Democrat Joe Biden. President Trump will have to pay $7.9 million if he wants a statewide recount of unofficial results showing him losing to Biden by about 20,500 votes. The Wisconsin Elections Commission released the estimate on Monday, which was based on costs submitted by the 72 counties. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
Politics & Policy

Trump pays $3 million for recount of 2 Wisconsin counties

He paid $3 million for a recount of two heavily Democratic WI counties, saying that they were the sight of the “worst irregularities” although no evidence of wrongdoing

6 years ago

Sen. Kim Ward
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Two women just made history in the Pa. legislature. Will that be the last thing they have in common?

Two women just made history in the Pa. legislature. Will that be the last thing they have in common?

6 years ago

PHA President and CEO Kelvin Jeremiah
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Philadelphia Housing Authority vows to send 240 vacant properties to nonprofit developers

With an eye to avoiding that fate in the historically Black and brown North Philly community, Quiñones-Sánchez said her goal is to shape the development that happens next.

6 years ago

Jessica Mangold (left) and Leon Vaughn (right) are SEPTA social distancing coaches who hand out masks and encourage riders to stay safe during the pandemic. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

SEPTA keeps no-enforcement mask policy as other transit agencies begin fines

SEPTA officials say they will not put frontline employees in a position to enforce the agency’s mask requirement.

6 years ago

Signs that read, ''I Buy Houses'' and ''We Buy Houses'' can be seen posted on a street pole in Philly
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
Eyes on the Street

‘We buy houses’: Philly Council targets real estate scammers with bill

A bill introduced by Philly City Councilmember Allan Domb and co-sponsors would create protections against scammers plastering the city with 'We buy houses' signs.

6 years ago

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