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Politics & Policy

Sexual assault in politics

This is unmistakably an historic moment when it comes to powerful men getting their comeuppance for sexual indiscretion. Today on the sho ...

8 years ago

Listen 30:24
Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

Can you separate the artist from the art?

Kevin Spacey and Louis CK are the latest to have been outed for sexual misconduct, and their careers have been upended as a result. So wh ...

8 years ago

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This photo shows an Amtrak train following a crash Sunday, April 3, 2016, in Chester, Pa. Amtrak said the train was heading from New York to Savannah, Ga., when it struck a backhoe outside of Philadelphia. (Glenn R. Hills Jr via A
Courts & Law

NTSB: Amtrak at fault for ’16 Chester rail crash that killed two

An Amtrak passenger train struck a backhoe on the tracks, resulting in the death of two maintenance workers and injuries for 39 passengers in April 2016.

8 years ago

Listen 1:54
Cover of the book, “Philadelphia: Finding the Hidden City”, by Joseph E. B. Elliott, Nathaniel Popkin, and Peter Woodall.
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Chronicling accretion of time, change on streets of Philadelphia

Nathaniel Popkin, Joseph E.B Elliott and Peter Woodall have complied a richly illustrated and detailed look at the present-day city.

8 years ago

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Haircuts 4 homeless opens up their own barber shop.
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Philly barber offering free haircuts to the homeless

There’s a very practical benefit to giving homeless people a haircut: it could potentially help them resolve their situation.

8 years ago

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Two Mastery charter school football teams face off
NewsWorks Tonight
Education

Mastery charter schools make football history in Philly

When the Mastery North Pumas and Simon Gratz Bulldogs clashed on the gridiron Saturday, they made a bit of Philly prep sports history.

8 years ago

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Radio Times

The Paradise Papers

The Paradise Papers, millions of leaked documents from the Bermuda law firm Appleby, detail the ways that the wealthy and powerful hide t ...

8 years ago

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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, surrounded by reporters in the U.S. Capitol. The committee will hold its hearing on its tax bill next week. Senators aim to pass it out of committee before the Thanksgiving holiday.
(J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
Radio Times

The GOP tax plan update

We’ll look at what’s in the Republican tax plan and where it stands with the Washington Post’s  ...

8 years ago

Listen 13:29
A palm-sized oval pendant holds a painting on ivory of a woman grieving beside a gravestone. The image is framed by braided human hair.
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

A time to mourn, a time to sell: Freeman’s offers vast collection of mourning art

Freeman’s auction house in Philadelphia now has on display what might be the largest collection of jewelry designed for grieving the dead.

8 years ago

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Advocates try to convince lawmakers to act on gerrymandering. (Katie Meyer, WITF)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Why Pennsylvania is home to some of the nation's worst gerrymanders

This story is the first in our "Over the Line" series on gerrymandering, a Keystone Crossroads collaboration with PennLive, WITF and other Pennsylvania public media stations.

8 years ago

Listen 5:16
Lou Farren (left) and Brad Ward both served in Vietnam, and received lungs from the same organ donor.
NewsWorks Tonight
Health

Vietnam vets become ‘lung brothers’

Two veterans receive a lung each from the same donor at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia.

8 years ago

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Grace Lewis (left) portrays Stephen Hopkins and Maura Slater (right) portrays John Hancock during a rehearsal for North Penn High School's production of
NewsWorks Tonight
Education

Lansdale high school musical breaks up the boys club

North Penn's production of "1776" is revolutionary in that young women take on many of the starring roles of Founding Fathers.

8 years ago

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Family and friends gather around a makeshift memorial for the victims of the First Baptist Church shooting at Sutherland Springs Baptist Church, Friday, Nov. 10, 2017, in Sutherland Springs, Texas. A man opened fire inside the church in the small South Texas community on Sunday, killing more than two dozen. (Eric Gay/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

60% of Americans believe gun laws should be stricter, Gallup poll finds

NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller sits down for his weekly conversation with Gallup's Frank Newport to talk about trends in U.S. opinion.

8 years ago

Listen 5:25
(Steve Ruark/AP Photo, file)
First
Courts & Law

Reentry simulation shines light on recidivism in Delaware

Elected leaders, police officers and members of the criminal justice community walked a mile in a newly-released prisoner’s shoes.

8 years ago

Listen 6:00
Jim Lonergan and Joyce Windfelder stand beside the Cpl. Charles J. Glenn Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Fishtown
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

50 years later, sustaining vivid memories of Fishtowners killed in Vietnam

Five decades later, its caretakers worry about how much longer they can keep Cpl. Charles J. Glenn 3rd U.S.M.C. Memorial going.

8 years ago

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