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Indoor dining begins limited re-opening in Philadelphia
Philadelphia was the last locality in Pennsylvania to lift its ban on indoor dining Tuesday. But the re-opening comes with restrictions, including a 25% capacity limit.
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After surviving a brutal attack, Kendall Stephens wants to help trans people citywide
The 34-year-old public health student hopes to go into local government.
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Politics and piety: Trump’s relationship with white evangelicals
How did the President, whose rhetoric about women and minorities is often violent, become the party of Christians who claim to love their neighbors as themselves?
Air Date: September 8, 2020
Listen 49:43Homeless mothers squat federal housing sites as encampment deadline looms
Several dozen families moved into boarded-up Philadelphia Housing Authority properties. The protest encampments face a Wednesday deadline.
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Listen 7:38Applications set to open for Delaware COVID-19 relief fund
The Division of Small Business will begin accepting applications online starting Tuesday at 10 a.m.
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‘We had lines, mobs’: Labor Day weekend is the busiest of the summer for Seaside Heights
The Jersey Shore town experienced a slow start, but the sunny, warm weather this Labor Day weekend helped to draw people out for one last summer hurrah.
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Camden’s Masked Melanin Market provides a breath of fresh air for Black businesses
Tawanda Jones created an open-air market for Black entrepreneurs in Camden to showcase their wares and support each other while social distancing.
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Hundreds of workers rally for pandemic protections at Philadelphia City Hall
The group is demanding personal protective equipment, access to COVID-19 testing, hazard pay, no cuts to public services and no more layoffs.
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Review of federal charges in Portland unrest shows most are misdemeanors
That finding by NPR is in stark contrast to the Trump administration's description of the Oregon city as being under siege by radical leftists.
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Jacob Blake shares bedside video from hospital: ‘Every 24 hours there’s pain’
Blake spoke about recovery and community from his hospital bed after being shot seven times by police in Kenosha, Wis. last month.
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‘No more fire and fury’: Group aimed at ousting Trump rallies in Philadelphia
The group Refuse Fascism is promising nonviolent protests from now until Election Day on Nov. 3.
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Unions threaten work stoppages amid calls for racial justice
Ahead of Labor Day, unions representing millions across several working-class sectors are threatening work stoppages in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Photos: A summer of social distance
Celebrations, milestones and daily routines happen whether we're ready or not, and Summer 2020 was no different. As Americans sought relief in a pandemic, they got creative.
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Compromise keeps ‘Black Lives Matter’ paint off Atlantic City boardwalk
Mayor Marty Small and protest organizer Steve Young picked up roller paint brushes and helped write those words on the pavement of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
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Mother, 3 kids dead after fire rips through Kensington home
Firefighters were dispatched to the 3300 block of Kip Street shortly before 8 a.m. and found flames and smoke billowing from the first and second floors of the house.
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