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Our greatest actors transport us through the magic of fiction, one short story at a time. Sometimes funny. Always moving. Selected Shorts connects you to the world with a rich diversity of voices from literature, film, theater, and comedy. Hosted by Meg Wolitzer.

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A person walks along a beach in Neshaminy State Park in Bucks County.
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Pennsylvania

Resistance begins against the potential sale of the Bucks County Water and Sewer Authority

A county-wide campaign led by residents is sprouting in Bucks County, in opposition to the potential sale of the Bucks County Water and Sewer Authority.

3 years ago

A Urkrainian volunteer wearing an orange vest gestures in the distance as she stands next to a group of people.
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Look for the orange vest: Ukrainians in Romania help others

Many Ukrainian volunteers in Romania are helping new refugees sort out their lives after the trauma of fleeing the war.

3 years ago

Starbucks union supporters march with signs.
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Starbucks workers drive nationwide surge in union organizing

Starbucks workers have driven a surge in union election petitions filed with the National Labor Relations Board.

3 years ago

People celebrate, raising their fists in the air.
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Amazon, union face off in a rematch election in New York

Amazon and the nascent group that successfully organized the company’s first-ever U.S. union drive are headed for a rematch Monday.

3 years ago

Nancy Pelosi stands next to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, both are smiling.
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Evacuations underway in Mariupol; Pelosi visits Ukraine

The United Nations confirms that an operation to evacuate people from a steel plant in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol is underway.

3 years ago

Turning Point United Methodist Church in Trenton, N.J. traces its history back to 1772. It has been located on South Broad Street near State Street since 1894. (P. Kenneth Burns/WHYY)
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Religion

New Jersey’s first Methodist church celebrates 250 years in Trenton

Turning Point United Methodist Church in Trenton kicks off a year long celebration of its 250th anniversary.

3 years ago

Members of the Pottstown community participated in a community clean-up and art fair on April 30, 2022. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Pennsylvania

A new place to gather: Pottstown community is reviving a historic cemetery

Artists and volunteers came together on Saturday in Montgomery County to celebrate, revive, and raise funds for Pottstown’s Edgewood Historic Cemetery.

3 years ago

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Virginia Maksymowicz holds one of the cast-plastic tools she created for her sculpture, ''Tools of the Trade,'' now installed in the North Waiting Room of William H. Gray III 30th Street Station. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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First new sculpture in 70 years for Philly’s 30th Street Station

Amtrak built a wall on wheels to accommodate Virginia Maksymowicz’s “Tools of the Trade,” honoring hand labor in the national rail system.

3 years ago

FILE - Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Trevor Bauer delivers in the first inning of a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves, June 6, 2021, in Atlanta. Bauer sued the woman who accused him of sexual assault in federal court Monday, April 25, 2022, in a move that came less than three months after prosecutors decided not to file criminal charges against the athlete
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Sports

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer is suspended over sexual assault allegations

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced the discipline, which covers 324 games without pay and if left in place would cost the 31-year-old pitcher just over $60 million.

3 years ago

Philadelphians, including Mayor Jim Kenney, joined hands to raise awareness of sexual voice at the WOAR Philadelphia Center Against Sexual Violence at their Hands Around City Hall event on April 29, 2022. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Social Justice

Circle honoring victims of sexual assault closes out Philly advocacy event

The event came as Sexual Assault Awareness Month winds down.

3 years ago

A sepia-toned photograph shows an older man standing with a young boy in front of a fountain.
International
Pennsylvania
Religion

An Ephrata church that became a haven for USSR refugees decades ago now plans to help fleeing Ukrainians

Ilya Tlumach was 7 when he arrived in Lancaster County in 1989 from western Ukraine. His family was fleeing religious persecution under the former Soviet Union.

3 years ago

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File photo: Students from W. B. Saul High School and Samuel Gompers Elementary School helped the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and Philadelphia’s Parks and Recreation plant black gum trees on the Belmont Plateau on Arbor Day, April 29, 2022. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Philadelphia
Public Spaces

On Arbor Day, iconic Philly tree replaced with three new ones

On Friday – Arbor Day – groups of students helped plant the new trees, which in time may grow to be 80 feet tall.

3 years ago

Suplex co-owner Mike Molino holds a Chunky Dunks, Ben and Jerry’s, Nike collaboration sneaker at Suplex’s sneaker store in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Business
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Suplex, the South Street sneaker spot that fits celebs with fly kicks, is taking over the block

When customers visit, it’s not so much a shopping trip as a place to hang out.

3 years ago

Bright flames are visible in a building that is partially destroyed.
International
Military
National

Relatives: Former U.S. Marine killed fighting in Ukraine

According to relatives, a former U.S. Marine has been killed fighting alongside Ukrainian forces in what’s the first known death of a U.S. citizen fighting in Ukraine.

3 years ago

Clean-up crews work at the explosion site in Kyiv, Ukraine on Friday, April 29, 2022. Russia struck the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv shortly after a meeting between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday evening.
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Ukraine slams Kyiv attack amid new Mariupol rescue effort

Ukraine’s leader has accused Russia of trying to humiliate the United Nations by raining missiles on Kyiv during a visit by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

3 years ago

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