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Dunkin' Donuts will offer gluten-free fudge brownies at its 8,500 U.S. locations beginning Monday. (Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
National

Do Americans run on organic and gluten-free? Not as much as you may think

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

Listen 5:55
The new quiet room is open to all. (Philadelphia International Airport)
Home & Family
Philadelphia
Transportation

Quiet room offers break from Philly airport hustle and bustle

The new space is for travelers going through TSA checkpoints in terminals D and E.

7 years ago

The Spotted Laternfly. (Photo courtesy of the N.J. Department of Agriculture)
Business
Environment
New Jersey

New Jersey issues ‘quarantine’ for items carrying spotted lanternflies

Articles most likely to carry the insect native to China, India and Vietnam include bicycles, tents, motor homes, plant containers, and lawnmowers.

7 years ago

In this file photo from May, pipeline workers probe the ground on Lisa Drive in West Whiteland Township where sinkholes have developed as a result of the Mariner East 2 construction. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Energy
Environment
StateImpact Pennsylvania

PUC allows restart of Mariner East 2 construction in parts of Chester County

An administrative law judge had stopped work in May, citing public safety.

7 years ago

The flavors of summer. (Photo Courtesy/BigStockPhoto)
Philly Parenting
Food & Drink
Home & Family
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

Fun Philly ice cream shops for the family

The dog days of summer are in full swing and there’s one sure thing that can make cranky kids and parents feel refreshed and happy: ice cream.

7 years ago

People of Japanese ancestry arrive at the assembly center at Santa Anita Racetrack in Arcadia, Calif., in 1942 for internment. (National Archives and Records Administration)
PlanPhilly
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice
PlanPhilly

Implicit in tackling racial biases, an expert says: Knowing the history

It comes after a hotel staff member wrote a three-letter slur against those of Japanese ancestry on a hotel guest’s room folio last week.

7 years ago

North Broad will be the site of Free Streets this year August 11. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Outdoors
Philadelphia

Philly Free Streets part three moves to North Broad August 11

North Broad will be closed to cars from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. from Erie Avenue to City Hall.

7 years ago

United States Coast Guard photo.
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Coast Guard rescues 3 paddleboarders near Ocean City

Three paddleboaders were rescued by U.S. Coast Guard personnel near Ocean City, New Jersey on Thursday.

7 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
Health Care
LGBTQ
Politics

NewsWorks Tonight, August 2, 2018

Former President Barack Obama endorses seven Democratic candidates from the Philadelphia region. Puerto Rican scholars and artists displ ...

Air Date: August 2, 2018

Listen 21:32
In June, details were announced for a renovation memorializing the Bethel AME burial ground under Weccacoe Playground. (PlanPhilly/file)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice
PlanPhilly

Young boys admit to hanging doll at Weccacoe Playground

Police are investigating an apparent hate crime at a South Philly playground where neighbors organized to honor a historic African-American burial ground.

7 years ago

Music
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

Ruth Naomi Floyd, ‘Frederick Douglass Jazz Works,’ and our need for free critical artists

Floyd could have been this generation’s Ella or Mahalia. But she has taken the A Train on a track less traveled — and Douglass is her latest companion on that journey.

7 years ago

Senate intelligence committee chairman Richard Burr warned about complacency over ongoing Russian attacks on the U.S. political system, at a hearing on Wednesday. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
NPR
International
Politics
Technology

This is ‘Not Fine’: New evidence of Russian interference meets inaction, frustration

"The extremes are screaming while the majority whispers."

7 years ago

Oyster Creek was New Jersey's first nuclear generation station, opened in 1967. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Energy
Environment
NJ Spotlight

Sale of Oyster Creek could speed up decommissioning by decades

Environmentalists are happy that the nuclear power facility could be cleaned up faster than originally planned but are concerned about details.

7 years ago

Listen 4:32
Gregorio Pac Cojulun (left), and Dan Schupsky, an outreach specialist, stroll along one of the new sidewalks. (Meir Rinde/PlanPhilly)
PlanPhilly
Environment
Infrastructure
Philadelphia
PlanPhilly

Rain, rain flows away, no longer puddles at Malcolm X Park

As happens on many blocks around the city, heavy rains used to turn the southeast corner of Malcolm X Memorial Park in West Philadelphia into a deep puddle.

7 years ago

White Clay Creek runs through New Castle County's largest state park. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
First
Delaware
Outdoors

Master plan in works for northern Delaware’s largest state park

The park plays a significant role in Delaware's history — or more accurately — in Delaware geography.

7 years ago

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