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 The recently completed turnpike widening program added 35 miles of truck lanes from Exit 6 where it meets the Pennsylvania Turnpike to Exit 9 near New Brunswick. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Will NJ Turnpike’s new lanes end Thanksgiving gridlock?

It’s as much a Garden State tradition as turkey and pumpkin pie: the annual gridlock of New Jersey Turnpike traffic for Thanksgivin ...

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Lincoln University president resigns

Robert Jennings, president of Lincoln University in Chester County, is stepping down. The university’s board of trustees accepted h ...

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 Lynne Abraham announced her candidacy for mayor at the Franklin Institute on Nov. 19. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Abraham poll shows her running first in Philly mayoral race

Perhaps Democratic state Sen. Anthony Hardy Williams isn’t ...

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 The shooting happened on July 8, 2012 (John Jankowski/for NewsWorks)

Death penalty hearing set for convicted soccer tournament shooters

A sentencing hearing is set for Dec. 1 for the two men convicted of killing two people at a soccer tournament at Eden Park in 2012. < ...

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Local Developer Ken Weinstein addresses community members before touring the building attached to Mount Airy Presbyterian Church. (Brad Larrison/for NewsWorks)

Mt. Airy co-housing group plans move to converted church

Mt. Airy-based co-housing group, Wissahickon Village Cohousing, headed to the Mt. Airy Presbyterian Church on Tuesday to check out the sp ...

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 Craig Sammons, 22, of Germantown has been charged in connection with six recent robberies across Philadelphia. (Photo courtesy of Philadelphia Police)

Germantown man charged in connection with citywide armed-robbery spree

Philadelphia Police arrested a 22-year-old Germantown man and charged him in connection with a series of six robberies occurring across t ...

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 The Detroit skyline rises behind the Monument to Joe Louis, also known as
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Michael McKenna on urban heritage, curing mistrust and the dangers of top-down development

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 Route 35 in Bay Head in late Oct. 2014. (Photo: Justin Auciello/for NewsWorks)
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Portion of Route 35 in Ocean County closed for several weeks

A one block stretch of Route 35 in Ocean County is closed for several weeks as part of an ongoing roadway reconstruction project followin ...

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 Glass, debris and overturned furniture are strewn inside a room in the gutted U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Alaguri)
National Interest

Bye bye, Benghazi, the scandal that never was

Nothing in politics has been more perversely entertaining than the endless attempts by tinfoil-hatted conservatives to hype Benghazi as a ...

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 There is nothing at this parking lot and housing area in Berlin, shown in 2004, to remind a visitor that this is the site of Adolf Hitler's bunker. After WWII, East Germany built up a housing area on the site. (AP Photo/Fritz Reiss)

25 years after Berlin Wall’s end, remembering a rough re-unification

As we mark the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s demise, I often think back to the first time I visited the newly re-unified Ge ...

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 A smiling state Rep. Dwight Evans, D-Philadelphia. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Dwight Evans considers another run for Philly mayor

Perhaps the third time’s the charm? A politician who unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Philadelphia twice is thinking about gi ...

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New Jersey blocks offshore wind farm

The state has once again blocked the first proposed offshore wind project along the Jersey coast. In its monthly meeting on Friday ...

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 Clare Mahoney  and Peter DeLaurier in Lantern Theater Company's production of 'QED.' (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
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Review: ‘QED’ and the nature of probability

Richard Feynman lived large, and what he got in return was large indeed. Feynman, who died in 1988 at the age of 69, was that most vision ...

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 Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, left, poses for a photo with Representative-elect Donald Norcross, D-N.J., center, during a ceremonial swearing-in ceremony on Capitol Hill, on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Norcross gets early and productive start in Congress

New Jersey’s newest congressman has landed his first leadership role in D.C. Donald Norcross (D-NJ) was elected by fellow fr ...

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