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Destruction everywhere, help scarce after Afghanistan quake
Villagers see destruction everywhere and help in short supply days after an earthquake devastated a remote region of southeast Afghanistan and killed at least 1,150 people.
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Pride parades march on with new urgency across U.S.
Parades celebrating LGBTQ pride kick off in some of America’s biggest cities Sunday amid new fears about the potential erosion of freedoms won through decades of activism.
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Disability Pride 2022: A community reunited at last!
This year’s Disability Pride event not only celebrated disability identities but was a celebration of life and survival after pandemic separation.
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Gunman kills 2 during Oslo Pride festival; terror suspected
A gunman opened fire in Oslo’s night-life district in what police are investigating as a possible terrorist attack.
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New community film project aims to share the ‘power and magic’ of Philly Latinos
La Guagua 47 is a new art and film project from Alba Martínez celebrating Philadelphia’s Latino community and SEPTA’s 47 bus route.
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Large survey of Philly renters shows there are 20,000 illegal evictions each year
The figure represents about 7% of all renters in Philly. And 60% of renters surveyed by Community Legal Services say they’re behind on rent.
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A year on, Surfside remembers 98 victims of condo collapse
The 12-story Champlain Towers building came down with a thunderous roar and left a giant pile of rubble in one of the deadliest collapses in U.S. history.
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Aftershock in Afghanistan as quake toll rises to 1,150 dead
An aftershock has taken more lives in an area of eastern Afghanistan reeling from a powerful earthquake that state media said killed 1,150 people this week.
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Kindness dots the frontlines of the Ukrainian refugee crisis, as documented by a Philly photographer
Ada Trillo, whose work hangs in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, chronicled a journey 7 million Ukrainians made this spring.
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One longtime resident reported a drop in pressure to the water department on Monday. “We can’t take a bath, we can’t eat," she said. "Who’s going to make up for that?”
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Survivors dig by hand after earthquake in Afghanistan kills 1,000
The Taliban and the international community that fled their takeover struggled to bring help to the disaster's victims.
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‘Heightened alert’: Abortion providers brace for ruling
In her first week on the job at a Philadelphia abortion clinic, Amanda Kifferly was taught how to search for bombs.
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The partnership’s goal: boost diversity in the spirits industry — and great a damn good sip.
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More than 900 people have reportedly been killed in an earthquake in Afghanistan
The hardest hit areas were remote farming villages in the eastern Afghan province of Paktika.
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The police response at Robb Elementary was a failure, a Texas official says
It took about an hour and 14 minutes from when officers arrived at the school to when they breached the door and ended the standoff with the gunman.
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