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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

A 2-year-old Honduran girl cries as an official searches her mother in McAllen, Texas, near the U.S.-Mexico border, earlier this month. For many, the image has become indelibly associated with a Trump administration policy that for weeks separated migrant children from their parents — but the girl's father says she was not separated from her mother. (John Moore/Getty Images)
NPR
Immigration
Media
Politics

Crying toddler on widely shared ‘Time’ cover was not separated from mother

Nevertheless, Time's editor-in-chief said he stands by the decision to use the image on the magazine's cover.

7 years ago

In 2016, Donald Trump captured 68 percent of the vote in West Virginia, a state hit hard by opioid overdoses. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Addiction
National
Politics

Analysis finds geographic overlap in opioid use and Trump support In 2016

The study has limitations and can't establish that opioid use was a definitive factor in how people voted.

7 years ago

Stryker vehicles are loaded on rail cars at Naval Support Activity, Mechanicsburg to be transported to the National Training Center on June 20, 2018. (Rachel McDevitt/WITF)
Military
Pennsylvania

Pa. National Guard 56th Stryker Brigade prepares for intensive training

Every element of the unit, from mechanics to medics to infantry soldiers, will be tested and evaluated on their performance.

7 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
National
Philadelphia

NewsWorks Tonight, June 22, 2018

Four years ago, Chris Felix and Farrad McLaughlin were highlighted in a story about first generation college students. We see how the two ...

Air Date: June 22, 2018

Listen 16:07
Sign-carrying participants march on the southern leg of the Poor People's Campaign May 10, 1968, in Atlanta. (AP file photo)
Income Inequality
National
Social Justice

Philly-region activists heading to D.C. for mass rally against poverty

The event on the National Mall kicks off the next phase of the new Poor People’s Campaign to continue – and build upon – the original campaign started by MLK

7 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks about immigration alongside family members affected by crime committed by undocumented immigrants, at the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex, Friday, June 22, 2018, in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
National

Poll: Americans see Trump as intelligent and strong, but not honest, likable, or admirable

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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Westminster Choir College’s Williamson Hall in Princeton, NJ. (Provided)
Business
Higher Education

Rider University plans to sell Westminster Choir College to Chinese firm

Two lawsuits aim to block the $40 million sale of the Princeton school by Rider University.

7 years ago

Jos Duncan, a multimedia producer, shares her story at Finding Sanctuary at Church of the Advocate in North Philadelphia. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Sharing tales of finding sanctuary at North Philly’s Church of the Advocate

Finding Sanctuary was put on in partnership with the Association of Independents in Radio, the Lenfest Institute and the Wyncote Foundation.

7 years ago

Glennette Rozelle (left) and Jennifer Mack at their StoryCorps conversation in Oklahoma City last month.
(Kevin Oliver/StoryCorps)
NPR

‘We never spoke of it again’: A night that changed a family forever

Growing up, half-sisters Glennette Rozelle and Jennifer Mack were used to hearing their parents fight. At StoryCorps, the women remember the night that changed everything.

7 years ago

Cars wait to enter Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, in 2014. The U.S. Army Base is one of four that likely will be tasked with housing immigrant children following a request Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services. (Juan Carlos Llorca/AP)
NPR
Immigration

Military asked to provide 20,000 beds for detained immigrant children

That bed space would be needed beginning in July and running through the end of the year.

7 years ago

An environmental cleanup crew works to remove fuel from a spill in Darby Creek in Tinicum Township, Pennsylvania, near the Philadelphia International Airport. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Environment
Pennsylvania

Pa. spill is gasoline, officials say; no word on quantity or source [updated]

Officials investigating a pipeline spill into a creek near Philadelphia have identified the material as gasoline.

7 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
New Jersey
Politics
Sports

NewsWorks Tonight, June 21, 2018

NJSpotlight’s John Reitmeyer gives an update on the New Jersey state budget stalemate. The Trump administration’s policy of s ...

Air Date: June 21, 2018

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