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Veterans celebrated at women’s entrepreneurship conference in Philly
Conference in Philadelphia focusing on women entrepreneurs honors four veterans making their own way in business.
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Bishops will delay votes on steps to combat sex abuse crisis
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced it will delay for at least several months any votes on proposed new steps to address the clergy sex abuse crisis.
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Police: Driver ‘did everything right’ after deer crashes through windshield
A 36-year-old New Jersey woman escaped serious injury when a deer crashed through her windshield Monday morning, authorities say.
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Air Date: November 12, 2018 10:00 am
Listen 48:57As gunfire continues killing Philly teens, city musters new approaches to violence
So far this year, nearly 30 minors have been fatally shot in Philadelphia. Last year, 22 teens were shot and killed.
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Listen 6:49Devastation as deadly California blaze tallies grim stats
31 people have died so far in wildfires in both Northern and Southern California.
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Amid ‘really rough time’ for American unity, honoring veterans with ‘bells of peace’
“We need to remember these things,” said Ray Harshbarger, another park ranger at Independence Mall and a Marine Corps veteran who served from 1978 to 1984.
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‘Am I dreaming?’ Letter excerpts from WWI’s last day
A hundred years later, their words can still pierce hearts.
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Changing Philly neighborhood rallies behind family after racist threat
The formerly industrial neighborhood of Tacony has undergone a significant change in its demographics over the past few decades, which has brought racial tension and unease.
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‘Farming while black’: A guide to finding power and dignity through food
Penniman and her staff at Soul Fire Farm train black and Latinx farmers in growing techniques and management practices from the African diaspora.
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At least 25 dead in California’s raging wildfires
Strong winds, low humidity, drought and vegetation so dry as to act like matchsticks exacerbated the flames.
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Pa. regulators adopt new policy, clearing confusion over electric vehicle charging stations
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission began looking into the issue earlier this year.
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Unsung heroes, animals were vital part of WWI war machine
They were messengers, spies and sentinels. They led cavalry charges, carried supplies to the front, and died by the millions during World War I.
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As construction of Keystone XL is paused, tribes brace for what’s next
This week a federal judge in Montana temporarily blocked TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry oil over 1,000 miles from the Alberta tar sands to Nebraska.
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