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In this file photo, a woman shouts while marching with service workers asking for $15 minimum wage pay during a rally at Newark Liberty International Airport, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, in Newark, N.J. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Money

Minimum-wage hike may be June’s big horse trade in Pa. Capitol

Raising the wage is getting its most serious discussion since Democratic Gov. Wolf began calling for an increase in 2015.

7 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the Human Rights Campaign Columbus, Ohio Dinner at Ohio State University Saturday, June 1, 2019. (Paul Vernon/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Biden declares LGBTQ rights his No. 1 legislative priority

Joe Biden declared Saturday that the Equality Act would be a legislative priority, an effort to enshrine LGBTQ protections into labor and civil right laws.

7 years ago

(Twitter/@RootsPicnic)
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Successful Roots Picnic draws 25,000 to Fairmount Park, minor disruption near the end

Despite the temporary panic, it was a glorious day of music at the Mann Center.

7 years ago

World War II and D-Day veteran Charles Norman Shay, from Indian Island, Maine, poses on a dune at Omaha Beach in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, Wednesday, May 1, 2019. Shay was a combat medic on D-Day, assigned to an assault battalion in the first wave of attacks on D-Day, June 6, 1944. (Virginia Mayo/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

D-Day’s 24 hours changed 20th century, and Europe, forever

"Some men cannot get enough of power," Shay said. "And it still continues today."

7 years ago

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Down the Shore
Community

‘Microearthquake’ registers off N.J. coast

A minimal earthquake occurred off the South Jersey coast early Saturday morning. 

7 years ago

People gather for a vigil in response to a fatal shooting at a municipal building in Virginia Beach, Va., Saturday, June 1, 2019. A longtime city employee opened fire at the building Friday before police shot and killed him, authorities said. (Patrick Semansky/AP Photo)
Community

Virginia Beach shooting victims were veteran city employees

A longtime city employee opened fire at a municipal building in Virginia Beach on Friday, killing 12 people and sending terrified co-workers scrambling for cover.

7 years ago

The Pennsylvania State Capitol is seen in this file photo. (Tom Downing/WITF)
Money

To spend or not to spend? Pa. politicians get ready for annual debate

Budget negotiations are getting started at the Capitol, and some Philadelphia Democrats are making it clear that they want the state's rare surplus to go toward education.

7 years ago

The correctional complex on State Road in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Philadelphia jail offers out-of-cell therapy for inmates in solitary confinement

The Philadelphia Department of Prisons is offering two extra hours out of isolation to ease the mental health impact of segregation on inmates.

7 years ago

In this photo provided by the United States Coast Guard, a pair of Sea Tow boats joins another vessel off Cape May Point, N.J., in the search for a single engine airplane that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, Wednesday, May 29, 2019. The aircraft's owner says the male pilot was a regular customer who flew recreationally. (Petty Officer 2nd Class Ryan Keegan/United States Coast Guard via AP)
Community

Police: Small plane, pilot’s body, recovered off New Jersey coast

State police say a small plane that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off New Jersey has been recovered along with the pilot's body.

7 years ago

The Rainbow Flag flies beneath the American flag at the Stonewall National Monument, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017, in New York. The Rainbow Flag, an international symbol of LGBT liberation and pride, was flown for the first time at the monument. (Mark Lennihan/AP Photo)
Community

Police: Motorist hits Delaware gay pride parade organizer

Police say a 90-year-old Delaware man refused to detour around a gay pride parade and plowed into an organizer trying to wave him away.

7 years ago

Participants wave a German flag during an anti-Israeli al-Quds demonstration in Berlin, Germany Saturday June 1, 2019, on al-Quds Day at the end of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting.  The annual al-Quds, Arabic for Jerusalem, march against Israel drew more than 1,000 participants, with some chanting “Palestine will be reborn!” or “Free Gaza!”. (Annette Riedl / dpa via AP)
Politics & Policy

Pro and anti-Israel protests draw hundreds in Berlin

Hundreds of people including prominent German politicians and members of the Jewish community are protesting against a larger, anti-Israel rally in Berlin.

7 years ago

2014 Princeton University alumna Kellen Heniford participated in a Me Too panel at Princeton University on June 1, 2019 in Princeton, New Jersey. Heniford walked out of the panel in protest of the presence of Washington, D.C. attorney Beth Wilkinson who represented Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh (Miguel Martinez for WHYY)
Community

Princeton alumni, students protest over panelist representing Brett Kavanaugh

Supported by a student group demanding Title IX reforms, a panel member walked out over the inclusion of a lawyer representing Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

7 years ago

Google logo is seen at its headquarters in Mountain View, California, United States on May 21, 2019. (Photo by Yichuan Cao/Sipa USA/Sipa via AP Images)
Courts & Law

Reports: Justice Dept. preparing antitrust probe of Google

The U.S. Justice Department is readying an investigation of Google's business practices in search and other areas, and whether they violate antitrust law.

7 years ago

Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan delivers his speech entitled 'The U.S. Vision for Indo-Pacific Security' during the first plenary session of the 18th International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-la Dialogue, an annual defense and security forum in Asia, in Singapore, Saturday, June 1, 2019. (Yong Teck Lim/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Defense chief calls out China on tech theft, South China Sea

U.S. Acting Defense Secretary Shanahan on Saturday denounced China's efforts to steal technology from other nations and militarize man-made outposts in the South China Sea.

7 years ago

A plane on an Ocean City beach after an emergency landing Saturday morning. (Image courtesy of the Ocean City Police Department)
Down the Shore
Community

Small plane makes ‘successful emergency landing’ on N.J. beach

It was a "successful emergency landing" on the 49th Street beach in Ocean City Saturday morning, the Ocean City Police Department said in a news release.

7 years ago

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