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Fran LaRose, a lifelong Philadelphia resident, listens as the bells ring at 11:11 a.m. at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia on Nov. 11, 2018 in celebration of Centennial Armistice Day. Her father was a WWII Veteran.
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Amid ‘really rough time’ for American unity, honoring veterans with ‘bells of peace’

“We need to remember these things,” said Ray Harshbarger, another park ranger at Independence Mall and a Marine Corps veteran who served from 1978 to 1984.

7 years ago

A Yemeni child suffering from malnutrition lies on a bed at a treatment center in a hospital in the capital, Sanaa. (Mohammed Huwais/Getty Images)
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A call for a cease-fire in Yemen makes news. Its catastrophe doesn’t

Food security isn't the only pressing issue.

8 years ago

A Yemeni man walks through the rubble of a building after Saudi-led coalition airstrike last month in the capital, Sanaa.
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‘It is time to end this conflict’: U.S. calls for cease-fire in Yemen

"Coalition air strikes must cease in all populated areas of Yemen," Pompeo said.

8 years ago

An Iraqi woman walks through a plume of smoke rising from a massive fire at a liquid
gas factory as she searches for her husband in Basra, Iraq, May 2003.
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Lynsey Addario: photos of love and war

Guest: Lynsey Addario LYNSEY ADDARIO has spent two ...

Air Date: October 30, 2018 10:00 am

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A helicopter view of the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Md., in 2016.
(Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

The Russia investigations: The U.S. launches a digital offensive — gently

This week in the Russia investigations: America's cyber-troops may be fighting back against Russia's influence brokers. Will it be enough?

8 years ago

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to U.S. National security adviser John Bolton during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at left. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Putin says Russia will target nations hosting U.S. missiles

"I would like to repeat that it's not our choice," Putin said. "We don't want it."

8 years ago

The Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Bear received a national honor for its service. (Zoe Read/WHYY)
Community

Delaware veterans ceremony receives national honor

The cemetery is one of only four state and tribal cemeteries out of 111 in the U.S. to receive this year’s Operational Excellence Award.

8 years ago

National Security Adviser John Bolton speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Tuesday. After their meeting, Bolton told reporters the U.S. still intends to withdraw from the Cold War-era Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. (Maxim Shipenkov/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Bolton affirms U.S. intent to pull out of arms treaty with Russia

Bolton confirmed the plan to end the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, better known as the INF Treaty.

8 years ago

This November 2017 photo provided by Badamsereejid Gansukh shows him in front of a U.S. military recruiting office in New York's Times Square. Gansukh, whose recruiter told him his Turkish language skills would be an asset to the military, said he didn’t know he was discharged at all until he asked his congressman’s office in the summer of 2018 to help him figure out why his security screening was taking so long. (Courtesy of Badamsereejid Gansukh via AP)
Politics & Policy

Army expelled 500 immigrant recruits in 1 year

The AP has interviewed more than a dozen recruits from Brazil, Pakistan, Iran, China and Mongolia who all said they were devastated by their unexpected discharge.

8 years ago

Some of the highest levels of PFAS contamination have been found on military bases like Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, because the chemicals have been used for years in firefighting foam, and persist in groundwater. (Bill Barlow for WHYY)
Health
NJ Spotlight

Study: PFAS levels at N.J. base 24,000 times higher than proposed fed standard

Water sources at New Jersey’s Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst contained levels of toxic PFAS chemicals that were up to 24,000 times hi ...

8 years ago

The R. P. Resor was torpedoed on Feb 28, 1942 off the coast of northern New Jersey, with a full load of crude oil. (Photo courtesy of Joseph Bilby)
Community

The history of submarine warfare off the Jersey coast

Imagine yourself on a beach in Sea Isle City in the winter of 1942. It’s night, and a cold, steady breeze off the A ...

8 years ago

Radio Times

The Battle of Chosin Reservoir

Guest: Hampton Sides General Douglas MacArthur was certain that the Chinese would not step into the Korean War in ...

Air Date: October 3, 2018 10:00 am

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On the first day of the Meuse-Argonne Allied offensive in France, a U.S .Army 37-mm gun crew man their position. (AP file photo)
Politics & Policy

World War I battle devastated U.S. forces, broke hearts at home

On Sept. 26, 1918, the soldiers of the 28th Division, many of them from Philadelphia, nervously glanced at their watches as dawn approach ...

8 years ago

The U.S. is sanctioning China's military for buying equipment from Russia that included fighter jets and surface-to-air missiles. Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) is show with Chinese President Xi Jinping, in Russia earlier this month. (Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

China fires back against U.S. sanctions for purchases of Russian weapons

China and Russia's increasing military and economic ties come as a trade war escalates between China and the U.S.

8 years ago

The leader of a fictional movement to repopulate Poland with Jews delivers a speech in an installation view of
Arts & Entertainment

Artist takes her work out of the museum, onto Philly streets

The complex films of Yael Bartana at the Philadelphia Museum of Art wrap multicultural messaging with nationalist propaganda.

8 years ago

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