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Three Ankole cattle are seen at the Philly zoo
Animals
Philadelphia

The Philadelphia Zoo is asking for the public’s help naming 3 new Ankole cattle

The East African breed has massive crescent-shaped horns, which can grow up to eight feet wide and weigh up to 15 pounds each.

4 years ago

Philadelphia Police Department's 39th District building. (Google maps)
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6abc

Man shot by Philadelphia police officer inside 39th District building

The gunfire happened just after 9 a.m. inside the building in Hunting Park.

4 years ago

A Share Food Program worker is seen carrying boxes
Income Inequality
Pennsylvania
Social Justice

Still rebounding from the pandemic, Delco nonprofits hope to use grant money to expand

The Foundation for Delaware County’s latest round of grants will go to groups like Share Food Program, which will build Delco’s first ever designated food bank.

4 years ago

Elon Musk (Kiichiro Sato/AP)
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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

A firefighter walks amid destroyed buildings in Ukraine.
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Military
Politics

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)
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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

Twenty internet providers, including companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, have committed to the the Affordable Connectivity Program, which will provide plans for no more than $30 for low-income Americans. (boonchai wedmakawand/Getty Images)
NPR
Government
Technology

The Biden administration is capping the cost of internet for low-income Americans

The Affordable Connectivity Program will provide plans of at least 100 Megabits per second of speed for no more than $30. An estimated 48 million Americans will qualify.

4 years ago

Patron poses at an award ceremony in Kyiv, Ukraine on Sunday. The Jack Russell terrier is credited with detecting more than 200 Russian explosive devices since the start of the war. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)
NPR
Animals
Military

Patron the bomb-sniffing dog cements his hero status with a presidential medal

A tiny Jack Russell terrier has won hearts and admirers for helping neutralize hundreds of Russian explosives in Ukraine. Now he's won state honors, too.

4 years ago

Chanel Hunter is a day care provider calling for a livable wage for workers. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
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Philadelphia

Child care workers rally at City Hall in Philly for raises during one-day strike

Child care workers say they deserve better pay so workers don’t leave the vital profession for fast-food jobs that are paying more money.

4 years ago

Images of pews
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Health Care
Home & Family
National

Few eligible families have sought federal payment of COVID funeral expenses

FEMA has funds set aside to reimburse burial costs — even retroactively — to families of COVID victims. But clerical challenges and slow outreach have stymied the process.

4 years ago

Russian soldiers march in one line, with a statue in the background.
International
Military
Politics

No end in sight for Ukraine war as Putin hails Victory Day

Russian President Vladimir Putin used a major patriotic holiday to again justify his war in Ukraine but did not declare even a limited victory.

4 years ago

This Oct. 1, 2020 photo shows windmills at a utility plant in Atlantic City N.J.
Employment
Energy
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New Jersey

N.J. offshore wind developer Orsted inks deal to use all union labor

N.J. offshore wind developer commits to all union labor. Building trades will develop apprenticeship programs to include women, people of color and the formerly incarcerated.

4 years ago

Briana Mitchell and her daughter Pia spent part of Mother's Day learning hula hoop tricks at Spruce Street Harbor Park, with the help of performers Kelsey Lee (far left) and Jennifer Alvarez.
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Outdoors
Philadelphia
Public Spaces

Spruce Street Harbor Park reopens on a drizzly Mother’s Day weekend

The weather dampened opening weekend for the season, but some families braved the cold wind to celebrate.

4 years ago

The United World College of the American West sits empty of students but unharmed, while trees can be seen behind it scorched from Las Vegas, N.M., on Saturday, May 7, 2022. School officials were able to visit the grounds earlier this week after winds and fires waned. Students at the boarding school most of whom are from overseas, have been moved to a summer camp outside Santa Fe, N.M.
Environment
Government
National

Dangerous winds, wildfire conditions returning to New Mexico

Dangerous gusts are picking up again, hampering efforts to battle a wildfire in northeast New Mexico that has burned an area twice as large as the city of Philadelphia.

4 years ago

A boy walks with his mother.
NPR
Gender
History
Home & Family

‘Mama’s boy’ is a flex, not an insult, for a new generation of men

A new generation of men seems to be rejecting the toxic masculinity inherent in the phrase and radically reinventing it.

4 years ago

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