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A Way with Words is an upbeat and lively show about language examined through culture, history, and family. Language debates, variations, and evolution, as well as new words, old sayings, slang, family expressions, word histories, etymology, linguistics, regional dialects, word games, grammar, books, literature, writing, and more.
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A Way with Words

A Way with Words is an upbeat and lively show about language examined through culture, history, and family. Language debates, variations, and evolution, as well as new words, old sayings, slang, family expressions, word histories, etymology, linguistics, regional dialects, word games, grammar, books, literature, writing, and more.

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Philadelphia Police Department headquarters at 7th and Race streets. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Philadelphia
Policing

Two Philly cops will be fired for illegally stopping and cuffing man, falsifying paperwork

The Philadelphia Police Department is firing two city police officers for illegally detaining a man earlier this year and falsifying paperwork, the PPD announced Thursday.

7 years ago

Christine Blasey Ford arrives to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. (Michael Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP)
Politics

Kavanaugh denies Ford accusation, sees ‘disgrace’

Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh testified today.

7 years ago

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, right, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, answers questions from reporters about allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018, as he arrives for a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Government Accountability
National

High drama in Senate as Kavanaugh-Ford hearing nears

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh emphatically fended off new accusations of sexual misconduct ahead of a charged public Senate hearing

7 years ago

Rachel Mitchell, head of the Special Victims Division of the Maricopa County Attorney's Office, is on leave as she heads to Washington, D.C., to assist the Senate Judiciary Committee with a hearing scheduled for Thursday.
(Maricopa County Attorney's Office)
NPR
Gender
National
Social Justice

Sex crimes prosecutor picked for Kavanaugh hearing brings decades of experience

Rachel Mitchell is head of the sex crimes unit at the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.

7 years ago

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro speaks during a news conference about clergy sexual abuse at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018.   (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania
Religion

Pa. Supreme Court questions attorneys about redactions in clergy report

In the first public arguments in the case, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday ...

7 years ago

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Brett Kavanaugh, with his wife Ashley Estes Kavanaugh, answers questions during a FOX News interview, Monday, Sept. 24, 2018, in Washington, about allegations of sexual misconduct against the Supreme Court nominee. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
National

Third Kavanaugh accuser submits allegation to Senate panel

Kavanaugh released a statement denying the new charges.

7 years ago

Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh leaves his home on Wednesday in Chevy Chase, Md. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
NPR
Gender
National
Social Justice

Judiciary Committee reviews new sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh

The Senate Judiciary Committee is reviewing a statement from a third woman who has come forward with sexual misconduct allegations.

7 years ago

Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney Kristen Feden (right) and accuser Andrea Constand react at a news conference after Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years for sexual assault Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018, in Norristown, Pa.
Criminal Justice
TV

Key prosecutor says allegation of racism in Cosby case ‘completely offensive’

Entertainer Bill Cosby has been sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison.

7 years ago

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Protesters gather on Capitol Hill at the office of GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine to protest the nomination of Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
NPR
Gender
Government Accountability
National

New poll finds Americans deeply divided by gender on Kavanaugh nomination

The stakes are high for Thursday's Capitol Hill hearing, pitting Trump Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh against Christine Blasey Ford

7 years ago

Bill Cosby is escorted out of the Montgomery County Correctional Facility, Tuesday Sept. 25, 2018, in Eagleville, Pa., following his sentencing to three-to-10-year prison sentence for sexual assault. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)
Law
Media
Philadelphia

With Bill Cosby in prison, what’s next?

Cosby's legal team says it will appeal, but he'll be in prison when they do.

7 years ago

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Women and allies gathered in Center City Philadelphia as part of a national walkout to show support for Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez, two women who claim Supreme Court Judge nominee Brett Kavanaugh assaulted them. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Gender
National
Social Justice

Hearing on Kavanaugh allegations puts #MeToo to the test

Advocates say the handling of the complaints shows how far the movement still has to go.

7 years ago

Tuesday's discussion between officials of the Department of Justice and state attorneys general focused on the rapid growth of tech companies like Facebook and Google and their handling of user data. (Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
National
Technology

Attorneys General zoom in on tech privacy and power

The attorneys general also talked about how antitrust laws might be used to set the right standard of consumer privacy.

7 years ago

Anita Hill testified in 1991 that she was sexually harassed by then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. (AP)
NPR
Gender
National
Politics

Anita Hill says Kavanaugh accuser hearing ‘cannot be fair’

Hill says there is going to be an inherent power imbalance in the hearing.

7 years ago

Bill Cosby is taken away in handcuffs after he was sentenced to three-to 10-years for felony sexual assault on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018, in Norristown, Pa. (Mark Makela/Pool Photo via AP)

Judge sentences Bill Cosby to 3-10 years in state prison

A Montgomery County judge sentenced disgraced comedian Bill Cosby to three to ten years in state prison

7 years ago

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A parishioner celebrates communion at the Cathedral Church of Saint Patrick in Harrisburg, Pa., Friday, Aug. 17, 2018. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania
Religion

Pa. Supreme Court to hear arguments Wednesday over redactions in clergy sex abuse report

On Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will weigh arguments over redactions in the explosive grand ...

7 years ago

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