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January 31 - February 5, 2019

Great theater, the dawn of Black History Month, and winter festivals are this week’s highlights

Can't bring yourself to watch the Super Bowl this year? Never fear, we've got plenty of other options for you this weekend.

7 years ago

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Facebook has been paying young users as young as 13 years old up to $20 a month to install an app called Facebook Research, TechCrunch reported. (Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)
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Kids
Technology

Facebook, Google draw scrutiny over apps that collected data from teens

Reports have surfaced that Facebook and Google offered adults and teens gift cards for installing apps that would let the companies collect data on their smartphones.

7 years ago

Philabundance volunteer Craig McCann hands out grapes as part of the Emergency Market for federal employees effected by the government shutdown. (Courtesy of Jonathan Gonzalez for Philabundance)
Philadelphia
Politics

Federal workers stock up at Philly food pantry as they wait for paychecks

Food insecurity is still gripping federal workers in Philly as they wait for their paychecks and brace for the possibility of another shutdown.

7 years ago

(Amy Favinger/NBC10)
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Pennsylvania
Public Safety

20 to 40 vehicles involved in crash along Rt. 222 in Berks County

A crash involving 20 to 40 vehicles during a whiteout snow squall snarled traffic on a busy eastern Pennsylvania highway Wednesday afternoon.

7 years ago

People walk in a snow squall in Trenton, N.J. (AP file Photo/Mel Evans)
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Snow squalls possible at Shore as ‘dangerous’ cold arrives Wednesday

Snow squalls could potentially coincide with the arrival of bitterly cold temperatures on Wednesday, forecasters say. 

7 years ago

UPS is introducing cargo e-bikes in some U.S. cities. Philadelphia officials say the City of Brotherly Love could benefit from the trikes. (Courtesy of UPS)
PlanPhilly
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PlanPhilly

UPS is trading trucks for tricycles in some cities. Cargo trikes could also roll in Philly one day

UPS is introducing cargo e-bikes in some U.S. cities. Philadelphia officials say the City of Brotherly Love could benefit from the trikes.

7 years ago

Katherine Banks discusses how Lutheran Community Services helped her avoid homelessness at the LCS office in Wilmington Monday morning. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Delaware
Homelessness

$1.2 million in grants to help combat Delaware homelessness

Thirteen programs to help Delaware’s population experiencing homelessness will share $1.2 million in funding from the state and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh.

7 years ago

(BigStock/Fredli)
Technology

West Chester professor treasures his antique computer collection

West Chester University professor Michael Pearson owns 200 computers and he's not done collecting.

7 years ago

Alora Miller unloads donated supplies at Philadelphia International Airport for TSA employees who continue to work during the government shutdown but are not getting paid. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Benefit
Income Inequality
Philadelphia

Philly woman crowdsources care packages for federal workers in need

Alora Miller is still delivering care packages to those who are feeling the pinch of missed paychecks.

7 years ago

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An aerial view of the Barnegat Inlet. (Photo: Civil Air Patrol courtesy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey

Dredged material from N.J. inlet slated for ‘beneficial use’

State and federal agencies are partnering on a pilot program to utilize dredged material from a notoriously turbulent New Jersey inlet for "beneficial use."

7 years ago

Hung Le, of Mount Pocono, Pa., has lived in the U.S. for more than 25 years. He came legally from Vietnam as the son of a U.S. service member, but could be deported because of a crime he committed in 1992. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Immigration

He came to the U.S. legally as the son of a soldier. Now ‘one mistake’ could have him deported to Vietnam

About 40 people rallied in South Philly Sunday in support of Vietnamese and Cambodian immigrants threatened with deportation, some for decades-old crimes.

7 years ago

The Philippine government says it will
NPR
Religion

ISIS claims responsibility for bombing of Philippines cathedral; at least 20 dead

Two bombs exploded just minutes apart at a Roman Catholic cathedral in the southern Philippines where Islamist militants are active.

7 years ago

Former prisoners and their guests arrive for the ceremony marking the 74th anniversary of the liberation of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Oswiecim, Poland, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
History

Auschwitz survivors pay homage as world remembers Holocaust

Recent surveys show that knowledge of the atrocities during World War II is declining generally.

7 years ago

The Mariner East 2 pipeline has officially broken ground in the Delaware County town of Aston. The beginning stages of the pipeline includes clear cutting trees and preparing makeshift roads for the heavy machinery to traverse. (Emily Cohen for StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Business
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Federal government shutdown slows process for construction permits in Pa.

The partial federal government shutdown is slowing the approval process for construction permits and several other environmental-related issues, according to the state DEP.

7 years ago

Teenage sisters Melati and Isabel Wijsen of Bali have received many honors for their efforts to ban plastic bags. Above: They accept the 2017
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Environment
International

How teenage sisters pushed Bali to say ‘bye-bye’ to plastic bags

Five years ago, two young women decided they were going to do something about the plastic problem on their island of Bali. And Bye Bye Plastic Bags was born.

7 years ago

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