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A group of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students arrive for a news conference, Monday, June 4, 2018, in Parkland, Fla. A day after graduating from high school, the group of Florida school shooting survivors has announced a multistate bus tour to
Public Safety

Parkland students to make bus tour to register young voters

A day after graduating, a group of Florida high school shooting survivors announced they'll spend their summer crisscrossing the country

7 years ago

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro addresses a reporter's question a news conference Thursday May 10, 2018 in Philadelphia. Shapiro announced that Christann Shyvin Gainey, 30, a nurse, was charged Thursday, in the death of the father of H.R. McMaster, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, after authorities said she failed to give him a series of neurological exams following his fall at a Philadelphia senior care facility. Gainey was charged with involuntary manslaughter, neglect and records tampering in the death of H.R. McMaster Sr. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)

Pa. Health Dept. faults senior care facility in death of former Trump adviser’s father

The 141-page report released over the weekend says Herbert R. McMaster Sr.'s fatal fall April 12 was his fifth during a four-day stay at Cathedral Village.

7 years ago

Nine days after the Hurricane Maria struck, Emilú De León and other volunteers opened a kitchen to serve meals to the people of Caguas. The first day, they fed 600, De León sa
NPR
Food & Drink
Income Inequality

Puerto Rico’s push for food independence intertwined with statehood debate

Hurricane Maria has reignited a small movement in Puerto Rico aimed at strengthening the local food system so the island can survive and thrive

7 years ago

A police officer secures the block as investigators survey a demolition site that turned deadly at the corner of Jefferson and Bailey Streets in North Philadelphia on June 04, 2018.  (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Public Safety

1 worker dead after building partially collapses in Philly

Authorities say a contractor died after a North Philadelphia building partially collapsed, trapping him and another worker.

7 years ago

Shazana Goff (left) operates the La Finquita farm stand in July of 2014. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY, file)
Environment

How one urban farm was lost: La Finquita’s finale

It started with a lock and a “No Trespassing” sign. They appeared one day on the fence at Lawrence and Master streets, next to a hand-painted sign reading, “La Finquita,”

7 years ago

Ayanna McNair (left) and Bridget Biddle stop by WHYY to tell their story. McNair is a formerly incarcerated single mother who recently got a licence to start a food truck business. Biddle is an advocate with the Maternity Care Coalition, which helped McNair. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Business
Food & Drink

Pregnant behind bars: West Philly mom says food connection saved her life

With license for food truck, Ayanna McNair hopes to serve her home cooking beyond the kitchen of her home.

7 years ago

Listen 2:33
Lola Omolola is the founder of FIN, a private Facebook group with nearly 1.7 million members that has become a support network for women around the globe.
NPR
Gender

One woman’s Facebook success story: A support group for 1.7 Million

Its genesis can be traced to 2014, when nearly 300 girls were kidnapped from a boarding school in Nigeria by the Boko Haram militant group.

7 years ago

The ocean off South Seaside Park in 2017. (Image: Justin Auciello/for WHYY)
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey
Outdoors

NWS: Life-threatening rip currents Sunday

There’s a high risk of rip current development along the New Jersey coastline Sunday, forecasters say.

7 years ago

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Down the Shore
Law
New Jersey
Transportation

LBI town adopts ‘no wake’ ordinance for vehicles

While it might be unique in New Jersey, it’s not the first in the United States.

7 years ago

USGS image.
Down the Shore
Environment
Infrastructure
New Jersey

N.J. towns impacted by Superstorm Sandy can compete for flood mitigation grants

A New Jersey official has announced a grant competition for the municipalities in the nine counties most impacted by Superstorm Sandy for flood resiliency planning.

7 years ago

NOAA graphic.
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey

Hurricane season begins today

Today marks the official beginning of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, which NOAA forecasters predict near- or above-normal activity. 

7 years ago

The ACLU and human rights groups rallied outside of the Center City offices of ICE in Philadelphia to protest the practice of separating children from their families. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Immigration
Law
Philadelphia

Philly protest, dozens more blast Trump for splitting up families at Mexican border

The Center City protesters were among thousands of immigrant advocates in more than 30 cities who took to the streets to assail the policy.

7 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight, June 1, 2018

Delaware revises its bathroom policy for transgender students. Dr. Gerry Bell from the NOAA gives a professional prediction for the Atla ...

Air Date: June 1, 2018

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U.S. support for same-sex marriage has reached 67 percent — a record high. Just two decades ago, support was only 27 percent. It's one of the biggest changes in American attitudes in Gallup polling history. (Mark Lennihan/AP Photo)
National

Support for same-sex marriage hits a record high in U.S.

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 5:39
Juan Romero, 67, at his home in Modesto, Calif., holds a photo of himself and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, taken by The Los Angeles Times' Boris Yaro on June 5, 1968. (Jud Esty-Kendall/StoryCorps)
NPR
History

The busboy who cradled a dying Bobby Kennedy recalls those final moments

In an interview with StoryCorps, Juan Romero, now 67, remembers meeting Kennedy the day before the assassination.

7 years ago

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