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Drexel returning to normal operations Thursday amid pro-Palestinian campus protest
President John Fry has repeatedly called on protesters to disband since the encampment started Saturday night.
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Kensington teacher, student go viral for ‘veggie dance’ battle
A second-grader and his teacher at Deep Roots Charter School have won the hearts of the internet — a video of their dance battle has nearly 20 million views on TikTok.
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Delaware, Tennessee to become first states to offer free diapers for Medicaid families
A Delaware pilot program that provides free diapers and wipes to postpartum parents for the first three months after giving birth will be extended.
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City Council advances bill to make Philly’s Eviction Diversion Program permanent
The heralded program is scheduled to expire at the end of June if the measure doesn’t become law.
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Listen 1:00Debate over Fairmount treatment center draws unhappy neighbors to City Council hearing
The hearing centered on a bill that would prevent the city from entering into a lease on a Fairmount building that residents don’t want being used as a treatment facility.
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Beth Stroud was defrocked in 2004, but less than three weeks after the United Methodist Church repealed its anti-LGBTQ bans, she has been reinstated as pastor.
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Lawsuits claim 66 people were abused as children in Pennsylvania’s juvenile facilities
Some attacks were reported to other staffers and were ignored or met with disbelief.
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Sen. Cory Booker questions U.S. prison labor policies, calls for change
While most incarcerated workers today help maintain correctional facilities, others are leased out to private companies or take part in work-release programs.
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2 dead, 3 injured in shooting at Delaware County Linen in Chester
DA Stollsteimer described the incident as a “workplace shooting” where an employee “took out his anger.”
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Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater wins a Tony Award
The Regional Theater Award recognizes the company’s unique creative structure and risk-taking productions over the last 45 years.
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Listen 1:14Philly Music Fest returns this October with 21 different acts across 7 days
This year’s festival will feature headliners Waxahatchee on Oct. 22 and singer-songwriter Amos Lee on Oct. 24.
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Listen 0:52Delaware County Council is at odds with Marple Township over the county’s attempt to assess a building on the site for possible use as a mental health facility.
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Listen 1:39Philly could get a consumer protection office inside City Hall
The proposed consumer protection office would help the city hold businesses accountable for unfair or deceptive trade practices.
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Listen 1:09Delaware lawmakers OK bill enabling board of political appointees to oversee hospital budgets
The legislation passed the House on a 24-16 vote Tuesday after the medical community dropped its opposition when the bill was amended.
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New Jersey State Police ‘never meaningfully grappled’ with discriminatory practices, official finds
According to a report by the state’s comptroller office, leaders never tackled data trends indicating "persistent, adverse treatment of racial and ethnic minority motorists."
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