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Mayor Jim Kenney chats with Chung Le, the owner of Pho Saigon Restaurant, in Northeast Philadelphia Monday. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Business
Economy
Philadelphia

Kenney visits Northeast Philly, chats with immigrant entrepreneurs

The mayor's tour was part of an effort to recognize the growing contributions immigrants and their businesses make in that part of Philadelphia.

7 years ago

Map of the state of Pennsylvania showing county boundaries and names, county seats and rivers from the U.S. Geological Survey.
Keystone Crossroads
Changing Communities
Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania’s population quickly becoming older, slowly more diverse

Following national trends, Pennsylvania’s population is getting older and slowly becoming more diverse ...

7 years ago

Veterans and dignitaries, including political consul Yoon Jung Kim of the Republic of Korea, place a wreath in front of the Korean War Memorial at Penn's Landing during a ceremony held annuallly on the anniversary of the start of the war.
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Philadelphia
Public Spaces

Korean War vets gather in Philadelphia to remember ‘Forgotten War’

More than 5 million soldiers and civilians died during the conflict, including more than 600 from the Philadelphia region.

7 years ago

The FBI says reports of sexual assaults on commercial airline flights are on the rise. (Adam Hester/Getty Images)
NPR
National
Social Justice

36,000 feet in the air, flight attendants and passengers say ‘me, too’

About 1 in 5 flight attendants say they have witnessed a passenger being sexually assaulted or had an assault reported to them.

7 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
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NewsWorks Tonight, June 25, 2018

A Philadelphia judge has sentenced two brothers to life in prison without parole for fatally shooting a police officer in 2015. Two Cong ...

Air Date: June 25, 2018

Listen 17:01
Philadelphia Museum of Art Assistant Curator Michelle Millar Fisher hangs a rainbow flag marking the 40th anniversary of the unfurling of the original at the Gay Freedom Day Parade in San Francisco on June 25, 1978. The flag was designed by Gilbert Baker, who referred to himself as the
LGBTQ
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Designing a movement: The rainbow flag turns 40

The rainbow flag — the icon of the LGBTQ movement for 40 years — comes to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

7 years ago

In hopes of getting farmers some financial relief from the loss of early-season crops, Delaware Agriculture Secretary Michael Scuse has filed an emergency disaster declaration with the USDA’s Farm Service Agency. (WHYY file)
Delaware
Environment

Federal help sought after rainy spring ruins Delaware corn crop, other vegetables

Some parts of Delaware got nearly half of the annual average rainfall total within three months.

7 years ago

In this undated frame from video provided by John Fetterman for Lieutenant Governor shows Antwon Rose in a campaign announcement. Funeral services are being held Monday, June 25, 2018, for Rose, who was shot and killed by police when he fled a traffic stop in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. (John Fetterman for Lieutenant Governor via AP)
Pennsylvania
Policing

Mourners: Black teen killed by police more than a hashtag

Funeral services were held on Monday for a teenager shot and killed by police when he fled a traffic stop near Pittsburgh last week.

7 years ago

Cows graze at the Cedar Dreams farm in Peach Bottom, Pa. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Food & Drink
Income Inequality
Pennsylvania

From dump-bound to table: Philabundance turns surplus milk into cheese and yogurt for hungry Philadelphians

While new technologies have allowed farms to produce more milk, fewer people are consuming it, causing milk prices to plummet and creating a surplus that often ends up wasted.

7 years ago

Listen 5:06
In this June 24, 2018 photo, Coast Guard personnel stand in front of a plane on a secured beach on the southeast side of the U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May after it landed illegally and there was no sign of the pilot. The Coast Guard says officers became aware of the incident when the plane was spotted on closed-circuit cameras. (Petty Officer 2nd Class Richard/U.S. Coast Guard via AP)
Down the Shore
Military
New Jersey

Pilot flees after illegally landing plane on N.J. Coast Guard beach

Authorities are searching for the pilot of a single-engine red plane that illegally landed on a Coast Guard beach in New Jersey.

7 years ago

ICE officials
Keystone Crossroads
Changing Communities
Immigration
Pennsylvania

A year after ICE arrests at Chesco mushroom farm, how many were actually deported?

Attorneys say arrests at or near workplaces are becoming more common in Pennsylvania, as the U.S. ramps enforcement of immigration laws.

7 years ago

Avalon, Cape May County, New Jersey in 2015. (Alan Tu/WHYY)
New Jersey
Politics

Merging N.J. towns could move beyond glacierlike pace with government support

One proposal calls for forcing towns with fewer than 5,000 residents to merge with a neighboring one.

7 years ago

A view inside the Up Stairs bar following a fire that left 32 dead and several more injured, seen on June 25, 1973. Most of the victims were found near the windows in the background. (Jack Thornell/AP)
NPR
LGBTQ
National

In 1973, an arson killed 32 people at a gay bar. For years, it was forgotten

It was 45 years ago this Sunday that one of the worst attacks on the LGBTQ community left 32 people dead.

7 years ago

Gelmy, 9, and sister Alexa, 4, climbing trees in the backyard of their family home in the Yucatan Peninsula. (Adriana Zehbrauskas for NPR)
NPR
Home & Family
International

A lost secret: How to get kids to pay attention

Maya kids are encouraged very early on to pay attention to what their family is doing so they can learn how to do chores and work collaboratively with their family.

7 years ago

The Casa Padre facility in Brownsville, Texas, is one of more than two dozen shelters for immigrant children operated by Southwest Key. (Department of Health and Human Services)
NPR
Business
Immigration
Race & Ethnicity

A Latino nonprofit is holding separated kids. Is that care or complicity or both?

Much to its leaders' frustration, Southwest Key became the face of a Trump administration policy.

7 years ago

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