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File photo: Former Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk addresses to supporters of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko during a campaign rally in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019. Kravchuk, who led Ukraine to independence amid the collapse of the Soviet Union and served as its first president, has died, a Ukrainian official said Tuesday, May 10, 2022. He was 88
Politics & Policy

Leonid Kravchuk, independent Ukraine’s 1st president, dies

Zelenskyy paid tribute to him by calling him not just a historical figure but “a man who knew how to find wise words and to say them so that all Ukrainians would hear them.”

4 years ago

Marla Travis, center, on the steps of West Philadelphia High School, where she is the principal, with four of her former students at Lamberton High who are now teachers at West Philadelphia. From left: Jean-Claude Forte, Yaseemah Foster, Brittney Smith, and Robert Green. They are flashing the “L” Lamberton sign. (Tyriq Williams, student, West Philadelphia High School)
Education
Chalkbeat Philadelphia

How four Philly students ended up working for their principal as teachers

Philadelphia Principal Marla Travis not only kept in touch with four former students: They became teachers at her school, thanks to the example she set.

4 years ago

Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Politics & Policy

Sen. Casey says he would support federal abortion rights bill

Casey, one of the last lawmakers on Capitol Hill calling himself a “pro-life Democrat,” says he would support a bill to write the rights into federal law.

4 years ago

Gospel singer Treena Ferebee at the announcement of the 2022 Welcome America Festival. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Philly plans for weeks-long Welcome America festivities fully in person

The 2022 festival will feature dozens of in-person events from Juneteenth to July 4th including fireworks displays and a massive concert on the Ben Franklin Parkway.

4 years ago

Elon Musk (Kiichiro Sato/AP)
Community

Elon Musk says he would reverse Twitter’s ban of Donald Trump

Elon Musk said he will reverse Twitter’s permanent ban of former President Donald Trump if the Tesla CEO follows through with his plan to buy the social media company.

4 years ago

Close-up of Doug Mastriano smiling.
Politics & Policy

GOP fears far-right candidate will be Pa. governor nominee

Doug Mastriano, a state senator since 2019, has run to the right of the nine-person Republican field and against the party’s establishment.

4 years ago

A woman administers a rapid COVID-19 test.
Health

Pandemic gets tougher to track as COVID testing plunges

Experts say testing has dropped by 70 to 90% worldwide from the first to the second quarter of this year.

4 years ago

Portrait of James Ijames
Arts & Entertainment

Philly playwright James Ijames wins the Pulitzer Prize

The Philly playwright and co-artistic director of the Wilma Theater won for “Fat Ham,” reimagining “Hamlet” as a queer, Black southern BBQ.

4 years ago

A firefighter walks amid destroyed buildings in Ukraine.
Community

Russia pounds vital port of Odesa, targeting supply lines

Ukrainian officials say Russian troops are pounding the port of Odesa, apparently to disrupt the supply lines and weapons shipments that have been critical for Kyiv's defense.

4 years ago

File photo: A worker uses a leaf blower to move trash onto the tracks at Allegheny SEPTA station. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

SUV driver, 2 pedestrians killed in crash at rail station

The driver of an SUV and two pedestrians are dead after the vehicle crashed into SEPTA's Allegheny station in Philadelphia.

4 years ago

File - Protestors gathered outside the Planned Parenthood Clinic on Locust Street in Center City. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Moralists in the U.S. ignore child-killing conditions while waving the pro-life banner

The fact that high rates of infant and maternal mortality persist in the richest nation on earth mocks the phrase pro-life, writes Linn Washington.

4 years ago

A mural on the side of The William Way Center is visible.
Arts & Entertainment

The unmourned will be remembered in new Philadelphia AIDS memorialization project

The William Way Center launches Remembrance, a play, funeral procession, and online portal to honor unmourned AIDS deaths.

4 years ago

Rep. Isabella Fitzgerald (left) and Rep. Chris Rabb (Pa. House)
Politics & Policy

Redistricting forces a contentious Democratic primary in Northwest Philly

Consensus-builder vs. status-quo-disruptor: two Democratic incumbents face off in a Northwest Philly primary for the Pa. House.

4 years ago

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FILE - A man and a boy walk across the almost dried up bed of river Yamuna following hot weather in New Delhi, India, Monday, May 2, 2022. According to a report released by the World Meteorological Organization on Monday, May 9, 2022, the world is creeping closer to the warming threshold international agreements are trying to prevent, with nearly a 50-50 chance that Earth will temporarily hit that temperature mark within the next five years. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)
Science

Earth given 50-50 chance of hitting key warming mark by 2026

The odds are inching up along with the thermometer. Last year, the same forecasters put the odds at closer to 40% and a decade ago it was only 10%.

4 years ago

U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon recently secured $650,000 in federal funding to support the creation of mobile crisis teams in Delco. (Kenny Cooper/WHYY)
Courts & Law

‘Thinking outside of the box’: Delco leaders plan to dispatch mental health experts alongside police

After crucial federal funding was finally secured, Delco officials plan to dispatch mental health experts alongside police officers during mental health calls.

4 years ago

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