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Call center employees work for the Facebook Community Operations Team in Essen, Germany, on Nov. 23. The workers review Facebook content and delete it if fails to meet the company's standards. (Martin Meissner/AP)
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Facebook updates community standards, expands appeals process

Facebook announced changes to its content review policy Tuesday.

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New lynching memorial evokes terror of victims

The memorial opens the same week that Alabama marks Confederate Memorial Day, an official state holiday in which state offices will close.

8 years ago

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Poetry conveys sense of Philadelphia community

For National Poetry Month, Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn asked listeners to write poems about their communities.

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Former U.S. attorney general predicts continuing wave of political engagement

Former Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at National Constitution Center to mark 150th anniversary of 14th Amendment

8 years ago

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NewsWorks Tonight, April 23, 2018

The defense rests it’s case in the Cosby sexual assault retrial. Philadelphia High Schoolers tell their stories to shed light on e ...

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In a 2-1 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission failed properly quantify greenhouse gas emissions linked to a pipeline expansion project in the southeastern U.S. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
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Pennsylvania

FERC, called a ‘rubber stamp’ by critics, begins policy review for approval of natural gas pipelines

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has launched an inquiry into whether to update its policies on pipeline oversight.

8 years ago

Don Aaron, public affairs manager for the Metro Nashville Police Department, speaks at a news conference Monday, April 23, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn., regarding the search for a gunman who opened fire Sunday at a Waffle House restaurant. A suspect police have identified as 29-year-old Travis Reinking shot and killed at least four people at the restaurant. (Mark Humphrey/AP Photo)
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Police: Waffle House suspect arrested near his apartment

Authorities had mounted a massive manhunt for 29-year-old Travis Reinking, after the Sunday morning attacks.

8 years ago

A scene from a wildfire along the border of New Jersey's Woodland and Manchester townships in Sept. 2015. (NJFFS photo)
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More than 800 acres of forest burning in Pine Barrens

No injuries were reported and no buildings had been damaged as of Monday morning.

8 years ago

Family heir Ben duPont and former DuPont Company executive Don Wirth are the new owners of the DuPont Country Club. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
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New owners investing millions to update DuPont Country Club

Family heir Ben duPont and a former DuPont Company executive recently announced they’re not only buying the DuPont Country Club, but also investing millions to spruce it up.

8 years ago

The Bad News Queers, one of 30 teams in the City of Brotherly Love Softball League, take the field in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. (Shai Ben-Yaacov/WHYY)
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Philly’s LGBTQ softball league celebrates 35 years on the field

“At first it was kind of a joke,” said co-founder Jeff Iberson. “But then it started to become something that we took seriously.”

8 years ago

WURD's Stephanie Renée emceed the storytelling event at The African American Museum in Philadelphia on April 21, 2018. (Courtesy of Dan Papa with First Person Arts.)
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Race & Ethnicity

After Starbucks arrests, Philly women of color reflect on racism’s effect on men in their lives

An event at the African American Museum in Philadelphia featured four black women's personal stories of racism's effect on the men in their lives.

8 years ago

The smoke plume generated from the wildfire near Lake Oswego in Burlington County Sunday afternoon. (Photo: JSHN contributor Stacy Lynne Herrick)
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Pinelands wildfire smoke drifting toward Shore

It's the second small woodlands blaze in the young spring forest fire season.

8 years ago

This photo provided by the Metro Nashville Police Department photo shows the rifle used in the deadly shooting at a Waffle House on Sunday in the Antioch neighborhood of Nashville. (AP)
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Naked gunman kills 4 in Waffle House shooting

Waffle House called it a sad day for the restaurant's family.

8 years ago

Jack Willis leans on a sign that reads
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Race & Ethnicity

A lesson in how to overcome implicit bias

Starbucks hopes to address part of that by including discussion about implicit bias in its training.

8 years ago

Philadelphia Flyers' Matt Read celebrates his empty-net goal during the third period in Game 5 of an NHL first-round hockey playoff series against the Pittsburgh Penguins in Pittsburgh, Friday, April 20, 2018. (Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo)
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Sports

Flyers edge Penguins to force Game 6

The Philadelphia Flyers are still alive.

8 years ago

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