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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.

3 years ago

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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.

3 years ago

Karli Miller (Ms. Wheelchair Pennsylvania 2020), Domonique Howell (Ms. Wheelchair Pennsylvania 2022 1st Runner Up) , Anomie Fatale (me/Ms. Wheelchair Pennsylvania USA 2022), and Tony Brooks (of ADAPT). (Courtesy of Anomie Fatale)
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Philadelphia

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.

3 years ago

Police stand guard outside a bar in central Oslo, early Saturday. Norwegian police say two people have been killed and several injured in a mass shooting. (Javad Parsa/AP)
Gun Violence
International
LGBTQ

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.

3 years ago

Mural Arts’ Cesar Viveros (right), worked with the North Philadelphia community to create a bus wrap celebrating La Guagua 47 Community Film and Arts Project on June 24, 2022. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly

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.

3 years ago

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Homelessness
Housing
Philadelphia

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.

3 years ago

Lazaro Carnero mourns for his best friend Edgar Gonzalez, during a remembrance event at the site of the Champlain Towers South building collapse, Friday, June 24, 2022, in Surfside, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Community Events
Housing
National

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.

3 years ago

A man stands looking out over destroyed buildings, with mountains in the distance.
Environment
International
Public Health

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.

3 years ago

A man in a firefighter suit looks up toward the sky. The photo is in black and white.
International
Philadelphia
Visual Arts
Billy Penn

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.

3 years ago

The scene of a water main break near Fourth and Hewson streets in Kensington.
Philadelphia
Public Safety

‘Why do I have to go through this?’: Water main break floods Kensington streets, leaving damaged homes in its wake

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?”

3 years ago

Afghans sift through destruction after an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan,
International
Public Safety

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.

3 years ago

Amanda Kifferly, Vice President for Abortion Access at The Women's Centers poses for a photograph in Cherry Hill, N.J., Wednesday, June 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Health Care
Philadelphia
Public Health

‘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.

3 years ago

Malcolm Jenkins at New Liberty Distillery in Kensington. (Courtesy of New Liberty Distillery)
Business
Food & Drink
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

First whiskey from grains exclusively by Black and brown farmers? Malcolm Jenkins and New Liberty are making a bourbon

The partnership’s goal: boost diversity in the spirits industry — and great a damn good sip.

3 years ago

Taliban fighters secure a government helicopter to evacuate injured people in Gayan district
NPR
International
Public Safety

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.

3 years ago

A young woman pays her respects at a memorial in front of Robb Elementary School earlier this monthin Uvalde, Texas. Committees have begun inviting testimony from law enforcement authorities, family members and witnesses regarding the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School which killed 19 children and two adults. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
NPR
Gun Violence
Kids
National
Policing

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.

3 years ago

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