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Rafaela Serrano's house in the municipality of Caguas is still roofless eight months after Hurricane Maria. Countless homes on the island remain damaged two weeks before the start of the next hurricane season. (Adrian Florido/NPR)
NPR
Environment
Infrastructure

Puerto Rico officials say they’re ready for hurricane season, but worries mount

Officials also said they have pre-positioned emergency generators at critical facilities like police and fire stations and hospitals.

8 years ago

Santa Fe High School sophomore Averi Gary (center) is comforted during a vigil after the deadly mass shooting in Texas on Friday. David J. Phillip/AP
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National
Public Safety

8 students, 2 teachers killed in Santa Fe High School shooting

Eight students and two teachers died during the 15-minute assault at Santa Fe High School in Texas on Friday.

8 years ago

About 50 protesters gathered inside the Starbucks near Rittenhouse Square on Monday morning to protest the recent arrest of two black men. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

New Starbucks policy: No purchase needed to sit in cafes

Starbucks announced a new policy Saturday that allows anyone to sit in its cafes or use its restrooms, even if they don't buy anything.

8 years ago

This photo provided by the Galveston County Sheriff's Office shows Dimitrios Pagourtzis, who law enforcement officials took into custody on Friday and identified as the suspect in the deadly school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas. (Galveston County Sheriff's Office via AP)
NPR
National
Public Safety

What we know about the alleged Texas high school shooter

The governor said there is nothing at this time that would indicate there were missed warning signs.

8 years ago


Kentucky Derby winner Justify, with exercise rider Humberto Gomez aboard, gallops around the track Thursday at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. The Preakness Stakes is scheduled to take place Saturday and Justify is the favorite. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
NPR
National
Sports

Kentucky Derby winner Justify is favored to win soggy Preakness

While it's a field of eight horses, it's expected to be a two-horse race: Justify and Good Magic.

8 years ago

An angler in Island Beach State Park. (Jennifer Husar)
Down the Shore
Community Events
New Jersey
Outdoors

Governor’s Surf Fishing Tournament is Sunday at Island Beach State Park

The longstanding Jersey Shore tradition is slated for Sunday.

8 years ago

A mortar crew with Mortar Platoon, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82d Airborne Division, operates a 81 mm mortar for the brigade’s Walk and Shoot, a live-fire exercise to train platoon leaders and forward observers of the brigade’s maneuver battalions on an artillery range at Fort Bragg, N.C., June 9 – 11, 2009. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Michael J. MacLeod)
Down the Shore
Military
New Jersey

Joint Base: Expect ‘all kinds of noise’ this weekend

Area residents may experience ground shaking and considerable noise emanating from the base’s ranges.

8 years ago

Teams line up on the Cooper River during time trials in the Stotesbury Cup high school rowing competition, which was hastily relocated because of dangerous conditions on the Schuylkill River.
K-12
Outdoors
Sports

Mud and rain don’t deter crowd for repositioned Stotesbury regatta

Pennsauken's Cooper River stands in for rain-swollen Schuylkill as rowers from 200 high schools compete.

8 years ago

Britain's Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle pose for photographers during a photocall in the grounds of Kensington Palace in London, Monday Nov. 27, 2017.

Watch: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal wedding

You can watch coverage of the wedding beginning at 4:30 a.m. Saturday EDT.

8 years ago

First responders and law enforcement gather in the field where an airliner crashed after takeoff Friday, just outside the international airport in Havana, Cuba. (Andrea Rodriguez/AP)
NPR
International

More than 100 feared dead after plane crashes near Havana airport

A plane carrying more than 100 people crashed shortly after takeoff from Havana's José Martí International Airport on Friday.

8 years ago

The United States Capitol building against a blue sky
NewsWorks Tonight
National

Government, immigration top concerns of Gallup poll respondents

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

8 years ago

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Injured Iraq war vet Brian Tibbits bikes his way up Monkey Hill in Wilmington in preparation for the Wilmington Grand Prix. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Delaware
Military
Sports

Iraq veteran overcomes war injury to race in Wilmington Grand Prix

Told he might never walk again, Wilmington’s Iraq vet Brian Tibbits will tackle the Monkey Hill Time Trial as part of the Wilmington Grand Prix bike race this weekend.

8 years ago

Sister Margaret McKenna rests next to her garden that helps supply the food pantry at New Jerusalem Now in North Philadelphia. (David Maialetti / Philly.com)
Broke in Philly
Philadelphia

Hunger in Philly – ‘It’s a pain in my belly’

In North Philadelphia and nearby communities, hunger is too easy to find. Hunger fighters are trying, in ways old and new, to beat back an untiring scourge.

8 years ago

Britain's Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle will be married this Saturday, and you can easily catch it on TV. (Matt Dunham/AP)
NPR
Home & Family
International

How to watch the royal wedding in the way that’s right for you

It's wedding time. Wedding fever! Or else, of course, wedding lack-of-interest, which is also entirely valid, not only for Americans but for British people as well.

8 years ago

Denise Morrison, president of Campbell's Soup, gets a tour of the Subaru of America headquarters during the facility's grand opening, Friday, April 27, 2018, in Camden, N.J. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Business
New Jersey

Campbell Soup CEO out, steel tariffs to bite soon

The company, founded almost 150 years ago, is also facing new headwinds due to recent changes in U.S. trade policy.

8 years ago

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