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YouTube says it will ban comments on videos featuring young minors, including cases where the videos are deemed to be
NPR
Kids
Public Safety
Technology

YouTube bans comments on videos deemed vulnerable to pedophiles, amid ad pullback

YouTube is disabling comments on millions of videos featuring minors, responding to accusations that pedophiles use comments to network and share links.

7 years ago

Tidal flooding in West Wildwood in late January 2016. (North Wildwood Police Department)
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey
Real Estate

Study: Ocean City’s property values ‘hardest hit’ by sea level rise

Property values in Ocean City have eroded by more than a half-billion dollars because of sea level rise, a study by First Street Foundation and Columbia University has found.

7 years ago

In this file photo, a driver enters the Pennsylvania Turnpike at a electronic interchange in Malvern. (Matt Slocum/AP Photo)
Pennsylvania
Transportation
PA Post

PennDOT: Turnpike could be headed for ‘catastrophic’ reckoning

The Turnpike Commission is behind on payments to the state amid a lawsuit over its rising tolls.

7 years ago

A woman shouts while marching with service workers asking for $15 minimum wage pay during a rally at Newark Liberty International Airport, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, in Newark, N.J. The event was part of the National Day of Action to Fight for $15. The campaign seeks higher hourly wages, including for workers at fast-food restaurants and airports. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Pennsylvania
Politics

Pennsylvania GOP lawmaker opens door to minimum wage deal

In January, Wolf issued a new proposal to raise Pennsylvania's hourly minimum to $12 this year, making it one of the highest in the nation.

7 years ago

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, (right), accompanied by Trump Administration officials, meets with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, (left), and other Chinese officials as they begin US-China Trade Talks in the Diplomatic Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Complex, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)
Business
International

U.S., China extend trade talks; Xi-Trump meeting may follow

U.S. and Chinese negotiators agreed Friday to extend high-level trade talks through the weekend.

7 years ago

Mayor Kenney pitches sugary drink tax as key for his Pre-K and Rebuild initiatives, March 2016 (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Politics
PlanPhilly

Lobbying war over Philly soda tax still waged by the millions

Although the tax survived a courtroom challenge filed by the industry in July 2018, the lobbying has only intensified.

7 years ago

Several U.S. cities have enacted taxes on sweetened drinks to raise money and fight obesity. But the results are mixed on how well they curb consumption. (Daniel Acker/Getty Images)
NPR
National
Politics
Taxes

U.S. soda taxes work, studies suggest — but maybe not as well as hoped

Researchers, meanwhile, are trying to quantify the impact of soda taxes by looking at sales data from retail establishments, including grocery stores and convenience stores.

7 years ago

Flutist Elizabeth Rowe, performing as a soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2016. (Winslow Townson/Courtesy of the Boston Symphony Orchestra)
NPR
Gender
Music
National

Top flutist settles gender pay-gap suit with Boston Symphony Orchestra

Elizabeth Rowe was among the first women to file a gender pay-equity claim under the Massachusetts Equal Pay Act.

7 years ago

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, (left), and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, (right), attend a meeting of senior U.S. and Chinese officials to resume trade negotiations, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019, in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House complex, in Washington. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
Business
International

From corn to Apple: What’s behind the US-China standoff

Individual examples tend to surface only when the complaints wind up in court — often in cases brought by U.S. prosecutors.

7 years ago

Curbside electric vehicle charging station
Business
New Jersey
Transportation
NJ Spotlight

N.J. businesses, investors want jump-start for plug-in vehicles

Electrifying the transportation sector is critical to cutting greenhouse gases, and achieving a clean economy.

7 years ago

Vehicles sit in high floodwater during a storm surge associated with Superstorm Sandy in 2012, near the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel in New York. (John Minchillo/AP)
NPR
Insurance
National
Transportation

New York City admits defrauding FEMA out of millions after Superstorm Sandy

The city has now agreed to reimburse the federal government $5.3 million for its false claims, according to the settlement proposed Wednesday.

7 years ago

Tech giant Google, whose headquarters is in Mountain View, Calif., plans to build a campus in nearby San Jose. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)
NPR
Business
Technology

This city told Amazon and Google: No incentives for you

A California mayor refused to offer similar incentives that New York offered to Amazon for a potential headquarters, but landed Google anyway.

7 years ago

In this Nov. 16, 2018, file photo graffiti has been painted on a sidewalk by someone opposed to the location of an Amazon headquarters in the Long Island City neighborhood in the Queens borough of New York. Local opposition to the proposed Amazon campus grew quickly with grievances that the deal was done secretively; Amazon didn’t need nearly $3 billion in tax incentives; and rising rents could push people out of the neighborhood. (Mark Lennihan/AP Photo, File)
Business

Gone in a New York minute: How the Amazon deal fell apart

Protests, hostile public hearings and disparaging tweets over the next three months, eventually led to Amazon's dramatic Valentine's Day breakup with New York.

7 years ago

Dr. Christopher Addis speaks to Republican lawmakers at a House Majority Policy Committee hearing Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. (Screengrab)
Health Care
Insurance
Medicine

Doctors: Malpractice rule change would drive up patient costs

Some doctors want to stop the Pa. Supreme Court from changing a rule tied to medical malpractice lawsuits.

7 years ago

In this Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015 file photograph, jockey Victor Espinoza, (right), on Triple Crown winner American Pharoah(4), looks back at jockey Kent Desormeaux on Keen Ice (6) after American Pharoah won the Haskell Invitational horse race at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J. (Mel Evans/AP Photo, File)
New Jersey
Politics
Sports

N.J. will spend up to $100 million to keep state’s horse racing industry on track

In each of the next four years, state officials will be able to award as much as $20 million to race track operators — but they could give less.

7 years ago

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