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Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden bows his head in prayer during a visit to Bethel AME Church in Wilmington, Del., Monday, June 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Politics & Policy

Biden’s bid touts faith, courts even religious conservatives

Joe Biden is a different kind of foe than Trump has faced before: one who makes faith a central part of his persona — often literally wearing it on his sleeve.

6 years ago

First responders in Long Branch rescued a deer struggling in the ocean on Thursday. (Courtesy of Long Branch Police Department)
Down the Shore
Community

Police, lifeguards rescue deer from ocean at Jersey Shore

Emergency responders on land and in the water helped rescue a deer that got stuck in the ocean off a New Jersey beach.

6 years ago

A young man wears a Confederate flag while walking with friends in Marion, VA Friday afternoon. (AP Photo/Andre Teague, Bristol Herald Courier)
Politics & Policy

Pentagon bans Confederate flag in way to avoid Trump’s wrath

After weeks of wrangling, the Pentagon on Friday will ban displays of the Confederate flag on military installations.

6 years ago

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Money

Pa. coronavirus recovery: New suit seeks additional SNAP benefits for lowest-income Pa. residents

Currently, the lowest-income SNAP recipients are ineligible for the emergency allotments that other SNAP recipients have been receiving during the pandemic.

6 years ago

Bartender Kelsey Drozda makes a drink behind the bar at the Riverside Caf
Politics & Policy

Wolf yanks virus funding from rebellious county

Wolf withheld nearly $13 million in funding from Lebanon County, where local Republican leaders voted in mid-May to lift pandemic restrictions in defiance of the governor.

6 years ago

This March 14, 2017, photo shows the flooded streets of a back bay neighborhood in Manahawkin N.J., after a moderate storm. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
Science
NJ Spotlight

Jersey Shore towns see more ‘sunny-day’ floods as seas rise, federal report says

Atlantic City and Cape May are among the coastal communities most exposed.

6 years ago

In this Wednesday, April 4, 2012 file photo, civil rights activists and Southern Christian Leadership Conference members from left, Ralph Worrell, Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Jr., C.T. Vivian and Frederick Moore, join hands and sing
Community

Rev. C.T. Vivian, key civil rights leader, has died at 95

C.T. Vivian's civil rights work stretched back more than six decades, to his first sit-in demonstrations in the 1940s in Peoria, Ill.

6 years ago

Lincoln University's 14th President Brenda Allen. (Abdul R. Sulayman/The Philadelphia Tribune)
Courts & Law
The Philadelphia Tribune

Brenda Allen sues several members of Lincoln U. Board of Trustees

Allen said in the lawsuit that board members violated the Sunshine Act by voting on her contract in a four-hour executive session on July 10 and “stifling public comment."

6 years ago

In this March 16, 2020, file photo, a subject receives a shot in the first-stage safety study clinical trial of a potential vaccine by Moderna for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Health

As Philadelphia’s doctors learn more about COVID-19, the death rate drops

The more they know about the novel coronavirus, the more hospitals adapt their treatment protocols. That evolution may be lowering the local death rate.

6 years ago

Contact tracer Neil Lader reaches out to COVID-19 patients from his home in Haverford. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Health

Inside one Pa. county’s effort to stay ‘hot on the trail’ of every COVID-19 case

Across Pa., many counties reopened even as the state was still trying to get a patchwork system of contact tracing in place. Montco started from a better position than most.

6 years ago

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Zaire Cuspud helped lead a worker protest at a pair of Chick-fil-A franchises in Delaware County. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Fast food fight: The story of a protest you never saw, and the Black employees who made it happen

The George Floyd protests are changing workplace culture — even workplaces that get little attention. The story of a suburban Chick-fil-A shows how.

6 years ago

Listen 6:00
Bagged up trash sit outside Philly homes
PlanPhilly
Community

Philly sanitation workers blame filthy streets on ‘poor management’; apologize for rotting trash

Philadelphia sanitation workers say Mayor Jim Kenney’s management is to blame for the mounds of stinky trash proliferating across the city.

6 years ago

Melissa Roselli and her daughter Francesca. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Child care dilemma: Philly parents scrambling to plan for three days a week of virtual school

Across the country, parents are scrambling to figure out child care plans that can accommodate a year, in which school will take place largely outside the classroom.

6 years ago

Listen 2:00
In this June 22, 2020, file photo, wearing a face shield, server Brandon Fricke, left, takes orders from dine-in customers surrounded by protective dividers at Water Grill seafood restaurant in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Politics & Policy

Rising coronavirus infections threaten US economic recovery

The virus is forcing businesses and consumers to freeze spending and keeping the unemployment rate stubbornly high.

6 years ago

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the National Constitution Center about the Commission on Unalienable Rights, Thursday,  July 16, 2020, in Philadelphia. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via AP)
Politics & Policy

Pompeo releases human rights report in Philly, denounces destruction of monuments

Sec. of State Mike Pompeo has unveiled a human rights report that counsels a more limited interpretation of “rights.” He also blamed the media for division.

6 years ago

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