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Veteran Patrick Watson places a wreath at the base of a new Mural Arts Philadelphia piece titled
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Military

Let’s give veterans what they deserve

As we celebrate yet another Veteran’s Day, I’m left to consider all the scandals that have beset America’s veterans in recent years ...

7 years ago

Women's Entrepreneurship Day conference organizer Elisa Bloom speaks to attendees in Philadelphia Monday. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
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Philadelphia

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.

7 years ago

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, prepares to lead the USCCB's annual fall meeting, Monday, Nov. 12, 2018, in Baltimore. (Patrick Semansky/AP Photo)
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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.

7 years ago

(Howell Police Department image)
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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.

7 years ago

An American flag blows in the wind surrounded by the color of autumn leaves at Antietam National Cemetery in Sharpsburg, Md., Thursday, November 8, 2018. November 11, 2018 is Veterans Day and marks 100 years since the end of World War I.  (Colleen McGrath/The Herald-Mail via AP)
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Veterans roundtable

Guests: Mike Felker, Anna Stormer, Patrick Dugan Veterans Day was Sunday so we thought we’d talk with a couple ...

Air Date: November 12, 2018 10:00 am

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Doctors have been tweeting about their experiences treating victims of gun violence after the NRA mocked a position paper by the American College of Physicians. Above, the NRA logo in 2017 at an outdoor sports trade show in Harrisburg, Penn. (Dominick Reuter/AFP/Getty Images)
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After NRA mocks doctors, physicians reply: ‘This is our lane’

7 years ago

Police investigate a drive-by shooting in Germantown on Oct. 3, 2018. Five young men aged 19 to 23 were shot. One died.
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Philadelphia
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As 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.

7 years ago

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As the Camp Fire burns nearby, a scorched car rests by gas pumps near Pulga, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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National
Public Safety

Devastation as deadly California blaze tallies grim stats

31 people have died so far in wildfires in both Northern and Southern California.

7 years ago

Fran LaRose, a lifelong Philadelphia resident, listens as the bells ring at 11:11 a.m. at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia on Nov. 11, 2018 in celebration of Centennial Armistice Day. Her father was a WWII Veteran.
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Military
Philadelphia

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.

7 years ago

Military officer Garcia plays the original Armistice bugle from 1918 under the Arc de Triomphe Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018 in Paris. More than 60 heads of state and government are in France for the Armistice ceremonies at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, exactly a century after the armistice. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, Pool)
History
International

‘Am I dreaming?’ Letter excerpts from WWI’s last day

A hundred years later, their words can still pierce hearts.

7 years ago

Connie Mella and her son Elvis were greeted by Tacony residents who came to show support for the family on Saturday after they received racist and threatening mail earlier this month. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

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.

7 years ago

Leah Penniman made it her goal to start a farm for her neighbors, and to provide fresh food to refugees, immigrants and people affected by mass incarceration. (Jamel Mosely/NPR)
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Food & Drink
Race & Ethnicity

‘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.

7 years ago

A California man and his girlfriend return to his burned out home in Malibu on Saturday. (Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP)
NPR
National

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.

7 years ago

In this Sunday, July 8, 2018, photograph, 2018 Model 3 sedans charge while on display outside a Tesla showroom in Littleton, Colo. (David Zalubowski/AP Photo)
Energy
Pennsylvania
Transportation
StateImpact Pennsylvania

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.

7 years ago

In this March 7, 1918 file photo, men of U.S. Battery E, 5th Field Artillery Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, load horses onto freight cars in Toul, eastern France, en route to the French front. They were messengers, spies, sentinels and the heavy haulers of World War I, carrying supplies, munitions and food and leading cavalry charges. The horses, mules, dogs and pigeons were a vital part of the Allied war machine, saving countless lives, and dying by the millions. (AP Photo, File)
History

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.

7 years ago

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