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It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.

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White Helmet Khaled Omar Harrah was killed during an airstrike in 2016. He's part of a group of volunteer rescue workers featured in the documentary Last Men in Aleppo (available on Netflix). (Courtesy of Grasshopper Film)
NPR
International
Movies
Politics

Director of Oscar-nominated Aleppo doc wants his film to serve as witness

The documentary Last Men In Aleppo, by Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad, takes viewers inside the city.

7 years ago

Nikolas Cruz appears in court for a status hearing in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Mike Stocker/AP)
NPR
Mental Health
National
Policing

Logs of 911 calls reveal the troubled history of Florida school shooter

On Thursday, Sheriff Scott Israel announced that two deputies are on restrictive duty pending an investigation into whether they followed policy in responding to 911 calls.

7 years ago

 Workers excavate a coffin from a construction site in the Old City neighborhood Thursday in Philadelphia. Crews working on an apartment building in Philadelphia's historic district got a shock last month when their backhoes started hitting coffins and unearthing fully intact human remains. The site was supposed to be a former burial ground from 1707, and all remains were supposedly exhumed in the 1800s and moved to a different cemetery. (Matt Slocum/AP Photo)
History
Philadelphia

New map unearths dozens of forgotten burial grounds across Philly

Like many old cities, Philadelphia is built on countless cemeteries and burial grounds. Its history is peppered with stories of graves disturbed and of cemeteries all but lost

7 years ago

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Down the Shore
New Jersey

Rain arrives later Saturday at the Shore

A grey weekend is ahead at the Jersey Shore, forecasters say. Saturday will feature low clouds and a chance of showers during the ...

7 years ago

A stream that starts on this Pennsylvania farm,  eventually becomes drinking water for 100,000 Delaware residents. (Gary Lindstrom/WHYY)
Delaware
Environment

Farm to faucet, enlisting Pa. farmers to keep Delaware’s water clean

A coordinated effort is working to keep Delaware’s water clean starting at the source across the border in Pennsylvania.

7 years ago

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(Laura Benshoff/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Immigration
Pennsylvania
Policing

Un-sanctuary: Some Pa. police departments pull closer to ICE

It’s normal for police departments to cooperate with U.S. law enforcement, but ICE has repeatedly attempted to enlist local police in carrying out immigration arrests.

7 years ago

Listen 5:25
Central York District parent Linda Veras-Lopez, (center), leans her head on her 14-year-old son Tyler Shields' shoulder during a press conference outside the Springettsbury Township Police Department Thursday. Veras-Lopez said she plans to attend every press conference because she wants updates on the police investigation into threats made to the school district earlier this week. (Chris Dunn/York Daily Record)
WITF
NewsWorks Tonight
K-12
Pennsylvania
Public Safety

In wake of Florida shooting, Pa. schools and police are on high alert

In York County, Central York School District has been closed for two days as police seek to learn who posted threatening messages online.

7 years ago

Crowds are shown in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963.
Speak Easy
History
Income Inequality
Race & Ethnicity

The myth of post-racial America

Civil disobedience is our obligation, not our right. If we do not stand up, ignorance wins. As long as we feel inequality, we cannot say that we live in a post-racial society.

7 years ago

First
Delaware

First for February 23, 2018

Farm to Faucet The lower Delaware town of Blades is a little closer to getting their drinking water back to accept ...

Air Date: February 23, 2018

People wave U.S. flags during a 2017 naturalization ceremony at the Los Angeles Convention Center. (Jae C. Hong/AP)
NPR
Immigration

America no longer a ‘nation of immigrants,’ US Citizenship and Immigration Services says

USCIS officials say the new mission statement reflects the focus on "fairness, lawfulness, efficiency, as well as protecting American workers and safeguarding the homeland."

7 years ago

Journalist and storyteller 
Sofiya Ballin (Courtesy of George Alexander)
NewsWorks Tonight
History
Race & Ethnicity

How ‘Black History Untold’ empowered its creator

Journalist and storyteller Sofiya Ballin says her identity series “Black History Untold” is more than a black history project.

7 years ago

Listen 5:51
NewsWorks Tonight
History
Immigration
K-12

NewsWorks Tonight, February 22, 2018

While so-called sanctuary cities get a lot of media attention for refusing to work with immigration officials, some Pennsylvania towns ar ...

Air Date: February 22, 2018

Listen 23:08
Sue Gray of the Wheelman Antique Bike Club shows off her bike at the Reading Terminal Market 125th anniversary celebration. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
History
Philadelphia

To celebrate Reading Terminal Market’s 125th, shopping like it’s 1893

As a part of Reading Terminal Market's 125th anniversary celebration, some vendors were selling some items for what they would have cost when the market first opened in 1983.

7 years ago

Cease Fire PA Executive Director Shira Goodman is running for a Congressional seat representing Montgomery County.
Pennsylvania
Politics

Gun-control activist launches run for Congress from new Montco district

Two Pennsylvania state lawmakers are also setting their sights on new 4th District seat in U.S. House.

7 years ago

After more than two weeks of not being able to drink water from the tap, residents in Blades, Delaware have been given the all clear. (Dan Rosenthal/WHYY)
Delaware
Environment
Public Health

Blades residents’ water safe to drink after flushing, Delaware officials say

Residents in Blades will soon be able to drink public water, a couple weeks after their supply was determined to be unsafe.

7 years ago

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