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NewsWorks Tonight, June 29, 2018

A week after having the police called on them at a Cinemark theater in West Philadelphia, a black couple are calling for a boycott of the ...

Air Date: June 29, 2018

Listen 18:02
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NewsWorks Tonight
National

How proud are you to be an American? Polls show the Dems are down

NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller sits down for his weekly conversation with Gallup’s Frank Newport to talk about trends in U.S. opinion.

7 years ago

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Lynne Griffin pays her respects at a makeshift memorial outside the Capital Gazette offices, one day after a gunman killed five people in its newsroom. Griffin was a journalism student under John McNamara — one of the people killed Thursday. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
NPR
Media
National
Public Safety

New details emerge about deadly shootings in Capital Gazette newsroom

The man charged with murdering five people in the Capital Gazette newsroom on Thursday had previously been investigated over threatening comments toward staff members.

7 years ago

Philadelphia City Hall (Nathaniel Hamilton/for WHYY)
Immigration
Philadelphia
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Philly and ICE have different stories about arrest warrant

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is accusing the city of Philadelphia of not living up to its promise of limited cooperation on handin ...

7 years ago

Staff of The Capital put out a newspaper on Friday, one day after a gunman killed five people in its offices at the Capital Gazette. Here, Steve Schuh, county executive of Anne Arundel County, Md., holds a copy of Friday's paper. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
NPR
Media
National
Public Safety

Capital Gazette keeps working, publishing, after 5 die in newsroom shooting

"Today we are speechless," the opinion page of The Capital's Friday edition reads.

7 years ago

Alma, 11, and Yaretzy, 11, made bookmarks at Mighty Writers El Futuro in South Philadelphia Thursday. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Books
Immigration
Kids

As immigration debate boils, Philly nonprofit sends books to detention center

With the help of a $3,000 grant, Mighty Writers is giving more than a hundred books to migrant children at the Berks County Residential Center.

7 years ago

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Members of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees union, or AFSCME, listen to a council executive speak about conditions at state prisons and detention centers in Illinois.
National

Surprise: Unions show signs of revival, despite setbacks

From all appearances, it would seem that labor unions are an endangered species. But here's the surprise: Organized labor is showing new signs of life.

7 years ago

Police officers talk to a man as they respond to a shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Md., on Thursday. (Greg Savoy/Reuters)
NPR
Media
National
Public Safety

Maryland newsroom shooting that left 5 dead was ‘targeted attack’

Acting Anne Arundel County Police Chief William Krampf confirmed an adult male suspect is in custody and being interrogated by law enforcement.

7 years ago

Celebrities and VIPs smash guitars as part of the grand opening celebration at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City Thursday. Movie stars lent an air of celebrity glitz to the gritty seaside gambling resort as two of its shuttered casinos reopened with more than 6,000 of the 11,000 jobs it lost during a brutal stretch of casino shutdowns. (Seth Wenig/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Business
Economic Development
New Jersey

Rebounding from a losing streak, Atlantic City celebrates two new casinos

The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino and the Ocean Resort Casino both hosted festivities Thursday to officially open their doors to gamblers and hotel guests.

7 years ago

Listen 2:14
NewsWorks Tonight
Medicine
New Jersey
Philadelphia

NewsWorks Tonight, June 28, 2018

Two new casinos have opened in Atlantic City. Is it a sign that the city is making a recovery?  A Philadelphia nonprofit is sending mor ...

Air Date: June 28, 2018

Listen 15:51
The Capital newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland (Google Map https://goo.gl/maps/mjHv2xpvpz32)
National
Public Safety

5 killed, others wounded at Maryland newspaper shooting

A single shooter killed five people Thursday and wounded others at a newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, and police said a suspect was in custody.

7 years ago

Children and workers are seen at a tent encampment last week n Tornillo, Texas. The Trump administration was using the tent facility to house immigrant children separated from their parents. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Immigration
Law

As federal court mandates migrant family reunification, Pa. lawyer questions process

For children under 5, the court has ordered reunification within 14 days. How to do so remains a mystery, says a Pennsylvania attorney representing 11 of the migrant kids.

7 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
Public Health
Public Spaces

NewsWorks Tonight, June 27, 2018

Public sector unions react to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that ...

Air Date: June 27, 2018

Listen 16:26
About 100 newly arrived immigrants listen to a volunteer walk them through the process to seek asylum at a Catholic Charities respite center in McAllen, Texas. (Mose Buchele/KUT)
NPR
Immigration
National

Some migrant parents agreeing to self-deport to reunite with children

"They were just so desperate to get back with their kids that they're opting to go this route."

7 years ago

Rendering of a closed Parkway block for The Oval+ 2018
PlanPhilly
Community Events
Philadelphia
Public Spaces

The Oval stretches car-free play onto the Parkway this summer

Ashley Hahn checks in on The Oval, a summertime experience geared at making the Parkway better for people.

7 years ago

Listen 4:53
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