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Princeton professor highlights protest investigation as university celebrates her award
Dr. Ruha Benjamin said Princeton University excluded her statements referencing an investigation into a protest last spring from an article about her MacArthur fellowship.
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Prosecutors lay out new evidence in Trump election case, accuse him of having ‘resorted to crimes’
The filing from special counsel Jack Smith’s team offers the most comprehensive view to date of what prosecutors intend to prove.
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Former UD student ‘incel’ sentenced to prison for stalking and threatening women, fraud
Delaware resident Kyle Stevens submitted 10 fraudulent applications for pandemic aid for small businesses while living overseas.
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Listen 0:35Work begins on Logan neighborhood playground project after costs doubled since COVID
The project is part of the Rebuild program, which uses sugary drink tax money to help education and recreation projects.
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Listen 1:07Drug overdose deaths among Philadelphians have risen every year since 2018, but preliminary numbers for 2023 show a drop.
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Listen 1:01Pennsylvania Republican in key swing-state Senate race backs using military to fight fentanyl
David McCormick envisions using the U.S. military’s drones and special operations teams in Mexico to destroy fentanyl trafficking cartels.
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Coveted Bucks County hosts dueling partisan watch parties for VP debate
With Bucks County evenly split between Democratic and Republican voters, local watch parties mirror the fierce divide.
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Listen 1:00Researchers looked at 230 cases of children 6 and younger who accidentally ingested opioids from common and uncommon sources.
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Listen 1:25Conservative Delaware think tank sues to stop Maryland offshore wind farm
Up to four power cables from offshore wind turbines will be buried under Delaware wetlands and beaches. Some fishermen worry about harm to wildlife.
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Listen 0:55Penn Medicine residents vote to approve union contract, a first for Pennsylvania
The negotiations took more than a year and included a large public rally and a recent incident where hospital security drove residents off a sidewalk.
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Listen 1:26Walz and Vance go in depth on policy while attacking each other’s running mates in VP debate
Tim Walz and JD Vance criticized each other’s running mates in a vice presidential debate that opened with a discussion of burgeoning domestic and international troubles.
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Former Penn State frat leaders sentenced to 2–4 months for 2017 hazing death
Brendan Young and Daniel Casey were leaders of Beta Theta Pi when Timothy Piazza died from multiple falls after consuming a large quantity of alcohol in 2017.
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Wilmington’s Hagley Museum is using old technology for a sustainable future
Historic dams along the Brandywine River are helping the museum get off the electrical grid.
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Listen 2:22Food fight: The history of the school lunch at Philly’s Science History Institute
Philadelphia pioneered the school lunch 130 years ago.
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Listen 1:46Port strikes extend a new era of American labor activism
Unionized dockworkers are the most recent group of U.S. workers to back their demands for better contracts by walking off the job.
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