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SRPRA — not to be confused with SEPTA — is finally chugging along with plans to restore rail service connecting Reading, Pottstown, Phoenixville, and Philadelphia.
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Nonprofits receive $17.5 million to fight hunger and boost New Jersey restaurants
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority plans to award grants to 30 organizations to buy meals for the hungry from struggling restaurants.
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Delaware’s Center for the Inland Bays brings volunteers each spring to count, catch, and tag horseshoe crabs, in order to track their population levels.
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Listen 3:55New Jersey law expands summer working hours for teenagers
The new regulations make permanent a 2021 law which expanded summer working hours for residents between 16 to 18 years old to up to 50 hours per week.
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Hispanic Fiesta celebrates 40 years in Philadelphia
The festival is a celebration of local Latin American and Hispanic culture. And this year’s event featured iconic musical guests.
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Djokovic tops Kyrgios for 7th Wimbledon, 21st Slam trophy
The top-seeded Djokovic has won 28 matches in a row at Wimbledon and raised his career haul to 21 major trophies.
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Jan. 6 panel sets prime-time hearing on Trump, awaits Bannon
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot is returning to prime time with a Thursday evening hearing.
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Russian rocket attack kills 15 in Ukraine; others trapped
Ukrainian officials say at least 15 people were killed when a Russian rocket hit an apartment building in the eastern town of Chasiv Yar.
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Crypto plunge is cautionary tale for public pension funds
The plunge in prices for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies provides a cautionary tale for the few public pension funds that have dipped their toes into the crypto pool.
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Agency that oversees Philly finances gets an extension until 2047
The agency was supposed to end its work after city bonds were repaid in 2023, but a new extension will keep PICA around until 2047.
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A three-week arts festival on the Cherry Street Pier shows the public how art gets made.
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Luis Echeverria, Mexico leader blamed for massacres, dies
Current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed the death Saturday.
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Weak protection for vanishing whale violates law, judge says
Judge Boasberg ruled the government has violated both the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act by failing to protect the North Atlantic right whale.
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Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan wins Wimbledon final, 1st Slam
Rybakina used her big serve and powerful forehand to overcome Jabeur’s mix of spins and slices at Centre Court on Saturday.
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Sri Lanka president, Prime Minister to resign after tumultuous protests
Wickremesinghe said that he will leave office once a new government is in place, and hours later the speaker of Parliament said President Rajapaksa would step down Wednesday.
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