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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.

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In this stock photo, black and white Holstein dairy cows are in their stalls in Penn State's research barn.
Keystone Crossroads
Changing Communities
Economy
Pennsylvania

Pa. dairy farms scrambling due to major contract termination

One of the nation’s largest dairy distributors is ending its contract with dozens of Pennsylvania dairy farms at the end of May.

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight, March 22, 2018

A struggling Germantown neighborhood wants to give a notorious developer the boot. Philadelphia hosts a summit to empower women and girl ...

Air Date: March 22, 2018

Listen 20:59
Garbage is piled in front of an apartment complex in Lower Germantown.
NewsWorks Tonight
Changing Communities
Housing
Philadelphia

Philly’s $9 million goodbye to Germantown’s worst landlord

Everyone has crossed paths with a bad landlord.

8 years ago

Listen 6:11
Delaware Business Now
Delaware
Transportation

Chinese vessel with cranes to pass under Delaware Memorial Bridge

A voyage by a Chinese heavy-lift vessel will temporarily close the Delaware Memorial Bridge early Saturday morning.

8 years ago

AP photo
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Man sleeping in tent pinned by fallen tree

A man sleeping in a tent escaped serious injury Wednesday evening when a tree fell on him in Ocean County, authorities say.

8 years ago

Sara Lomax-Reese is shown with her mother
Speak Easy
History
Race & Ethnicity

The triple weight of being Black, American, and a woman

While we have always shared many of the concerns championed by the mainstream women’s movement, we have never had the luxury of fighting a singular fight.

8 years ago

in this 2018 file photo, a snow encrusted Jeep is seen in Lavallette, Ocean County. (@nickhonachefsky via Twitter)
Down the Shore
New Jersey

How's how much snow fell at the Shore

More than a foot of snow fell in locations throughout the Jersey Shore by Thursday morning as Mother Nature dealt the fourth major storm in four weeks. 

8 years ago

A regional rail train departs 30th Street Station as the snow intensifies.
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

Philly region digs out of latest nor’easter

After a few days of snow, sleet, and icy rain, it’s time for the region to recover.

8 years ago

Former U.S. Deputy Attorney Sally Yates opens the Public Library Association Conference at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
Books
National
Philadelphia

In Philly, Sally Yates commends librarians as holders of truth

Acting U.S. attorney general was fired by Trump over stand against travel ban.

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
Criminal Justice
K-12

NewsWorks Tonight, March 21, 2018

We have weather updates from around the region. The Pennsylvania Senate passes a bill to increase gun ownership restrictions on people co ...

Air Date: March 21, 2018

Listen 20:40
The front of Panera Bread is visible from Princeton University's campus. (Alan Tu/WHYY)
New Jersey
Public Safety

N.J. AG’s office identifies gunman killed by police in Princeton Panera Bread standoff

The man who police fatally shot Tuesday after a roughly five-hour standoff at a restaurant near Princeton University has been identified as Scott Mielentz.

8 years ago

In this April 4, 2013 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg walks at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook is having one of its worst weeks as a publicly traded company with a share sell-off continuing for a second day. Britain's Commissioner Elizabeth Denham told the BBC that she was investigating Facebook and has asked the company not to pursue its own audit of Cambridge Analytica's data use. Denham is also pursuing a warrant to search Cambridge Analytica's servers. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo, File)
International
Politics
Technology

Facebook’s Zuckerberg admits mistakes, outlines fixes

Zuckerberg said Wednesday that Facebook has a "responsibility" to protect its users' data and if it fails, "we don't deserve to serve you."

8 years ago

The former site of the Daily News and Inquirer at Broad and Callowhill streets. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Philadelphia

Remembering Tom Gibbons, Philadelphia police officer, Inquirer crime reporter

Services were held this week for former Philadelphia Police officer Tom Gibbons, who was also known as a longtime reporter for the Philadelphia Bulletin and Inquirer.

8 years ago

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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

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