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Aishat Alhaji, second, right, one of the kidnapped girls from the Government Girls Science and Technical College Dapchi who was freed, is photographed after her release, in Dapchi, Nigeria, Wednesday March. 21, 2018. Witnesses say Boko Haram militants have returned an unknown number of the 110 girls who were abducted from their Nigeria school a month ago. (Jossy Ola/AP Photo)
International
Politics

Boko Haram returns Nigeria girls, warns not to put in school

Boko Haram Islamic extremists brought back nearly all of the 110 girls they had kidnapped from a boarding school last month.

8 years ago

Locust Walk on the University of Pennsylvania campus in West Philadelphia.
Speak Easy

Penn Law prof’s comments prove need for racial justice in legal profession

America can never have just laws and policies, or a system that brings equality to everyone, if the caretakers and decision makers of our legal institutions are mostly white.

8 years ago

Members of the New Sanctuary Movement protest outside City Hall
Immigration
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

Three at Philly immigrant organization fired after claiming boss outed them to ICE

New Sanctuary Movement says decision to terminate the employees stemmed from their disrespect of the organization's conflict resolution process.

8 years ago

Snowy first day of Spring (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Delaware
New Jersey
Philadelphia

Philly region grapples with yet another Nor’easter

According to the National Weather Service, the storm dropped as many as fives inches of snow on the city by 7 p.m.

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
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Streets & Roads

NewsWorks Tonight, March 20, 2018

We get an update on the standoff near ...

Air Date: March 20, 2018

Listen 21:16
4 p.m. Tuesday forecast from the NWS.
Down the Shore
New Jersey

NWS: If you don't have to travel Wednesday, don't

Buckle up!

8 years ago

Snow falls on the La Salle University campus in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
New Jersey
Philadelphia
Transportation

This nor’easter means more preparation, and more cancellations

SEPTA is urging customers to plan ahead and avoid unnecessary travel. Hundreds of Wednesday flights from Philadelphia cancelled.

8 years ago

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents investigate the scene at a FedEx distribution center where a package exploded on Tuesday, in Schertz, Texas. Authorities believe the package bomb is linked to the recent string of Austin bombings.
NPR
Public Safety

Bomb destined for Austin explodes at FedEx facility near San Antonio

It's the fifth explosion of a device either in Austin or meant to be delivered to the city.

8 years ago

Police in Princeton, N.J. have closed Nassau Street between Washington Road and Witherspoon Street after a person with a gun entered the Panera restaurant there. (Dana Difilippo/WHYY)

Princeton Panera Bread gunman is dead, says N.J. AG’s office

Updated: 5:59 p.m. — The armed man who had been holed up in a restaurant in Princeton, New Jersey since ...

8 years ago

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., left, and his wife, Coretta Scott King, second from left, join pickets during a tour of an Atlanta slum area
Speak Easy
History
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Remembering ongoing work of women in the civil rights movement

"During the civil rights movement, or any other movement in this country, there are women of color pushing the moral conscience of our country to do better."

8 years ago

Demolition work begins on some abandoned homes on Bennett St. in Wilmington. (Dan Rosenthal/WHYY)
Delaware
Economic Development

Wilmington demolition marks East Side revitalization effort

As workers began tearing down 10 abandoned houses along Bennett Street, Wilmington leaders celebrate fourth round in a long-term effort to raze derelict properties.

8 years ago

Deputies and federal agents converge on Great Mills High School

Sheriff: 1 student dead, 2 wounded in Maryland high school

School officials report that there's been a shooting at a Maryland high school, that the 'event is contained' and the campus is on lockdown.

8 years ago

About 50 people gathered at the statue of Octavius Catto to remember the victims of gun violence and to call for gun control legislation. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Public Safety
Race & Ethnicity

Survivor of school shooting to use his ‘white privilege’ to offset racial disparities in coverage

The 17-year-old said they "have to use our white privilege" to make sure all people who have died in gun violence can be heard.

8 years ago

Hands reaching out.
NPR
Income Inequality
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Forget wealth and neighborhood. The racial income gap persists

The study looked at racial disparities in income over generations by looking at de-identified data from 20 million U.S. children and their parents.

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight March 19, 2018

Sarah Bridges has a very unique job in corporate America--reforming the behaviors of top executives who are serial harassers.

Air Date: March 19, 2018

Listen 22:00
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