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Alt-right flyers posted throughout three Pennsylvania college campuses

More college campuses in Pennsylvania recently got a visit from a group identified as a white nationalist hate group by the Southern Pove ...

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Opioid use during pregnancy now a concern for health officials

Nationally, the number of babies suffering from neonatal abstinence syndrome is up fivefold since 2000. The syndrome can occur if a woman ...

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Vietnam: The war that was waged in my head

In the winter of my 13th year, I made a momentous life decision. I marched into my parents’ suburban kitchen and declared that when ...

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Older Americans drinking to ‘unprecedented’ level, study finds

Across the country, alcohol use — and misuse — have gone up among older adults, researchers say. The new study in JAMA Psychia ...

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Five ways Hollywood looks at Vietnam [video]

As Ken Burns turns his documentary lens on Vietnam, WHYY’s Patrick Stoner examines five ways Hollywood has explored the war. ...

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 In this Saturday, April 1, 1972, file photo, Daniel Ellsberg, chief defendant in the Pentagon Papers case, addresses a crowd at the State Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. following an anti-war parade that ended at the Capitol. (AP Photo/Rusty Kennedy)
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Vietnam was my first war

This story is part of a WHYY series examining how the United States, four decades later, is st ...

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Op-ed: Hate mail from a ‘friend’

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Delaware

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Delaware Symphony Orchestra launches ‘ambitious’ season in Wilmington

The Delaware Symphony Orchestra launches one of the most ambitious seasons in its 111-year history tonight with the indelible four-note o ...

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New Jersey
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Combative man taken into police custody after nighttime ocean rescue

A combative man was taken into police custody Wednesday night after firefighters rescued him from a rip current in Monmouth County, autho ...

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An ignorant America endangers democracy

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New Miss America chides Trump for withdrawing from international climate accord

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New Jersey

Lifeguards to protect Island Beach State Park through September

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