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An earthquake shook the densely populated New York City metropolitan area Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said, with residents across the Northeast reporting rumbling in a region where people are unaccustomed to feeling the ground move. The...
by Associated Press
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on Fri Apr 05, 2024 at 08:53 AM PDT
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Trump claimed in Harrisburg that if he doesn’t win the election, Pennsylvania will cease to exist because ‘they’ will change the name. Because doesn’t everyone know that if you remove the statue of William Penn, the commonwealth will disappear. Trump...
by annieli
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on Mon Feb 12, 2024 at 06:58 PM PST
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Commentary by BlackKos editor JoanMar While I was never a fan of Wendy Williams, I was aware of her and the place she’d carved out for herself in popular culture. She hosted a prominent radio ...
by Black Kos
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on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 01:59 PM PST
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All creative folks who get fired from their day jobs should relate to this, especially if you do try to keep your personal stuff separate from the day gig. Darn social media. This guy got fired in January last year and has been reinstated. Jad Sleiman,...
by annieli
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on Fri Jan 05, 2024 at 10:05 AM PST
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It was the morning of May 25th, 2022. There was banging on the door of my basement apartment. It was my mom and her friend Chris… and the police. This basement was zoned as a storage facility, the ...
by Lonni Delane
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on Thu Jan 04, 2024 at 07:00 AM PST
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Comedian Kevin Hart has been announced as the 25th recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The 44-year-old comedian and Philadelphia native will receive his award from the John F. Kennedy Center in March 2024. While Hart’s comedy career...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Nov 16, 2023 at 03:41 PM PST
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From Guttmacher Institute email: In a new comment published in The Lancet, experts Ann Starrs, Alex Ezeh, Gilda Sedgh and Susheela Singh outline the collective work needed to advance sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for all by 2030....
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Nov 18, 2023 at 05:00 PM PST
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Philadelphia has elected Cherelle Parker, our first female mayor. She is also a black woman. I voted for her, and I’m excited to see what she can do. It’s a really good thing. Donald Trump famously said in a presidential debate: “Bad things happen in...
by Examined
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on Mon Nov 13, 2023 at 07:04 AM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �...
by Chitown Kev
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on Tue Nov 07, 2023 at 08:59 PM PST
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Cherelle Parker, a Democrat who has held office at the state and local level after first becoming involved in politics as a teenager, was elected Tuesday as Philadelphia’s 100th mayor, becoming the first woman to hold the post. Voters were also...
by Associated Press
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on Tue Nov 07, 2023 at 05:37 PM PST
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Large-scale clean energy projects from Pennsylvania to California have been selected by the Biden administration for a $7 billion program to kickstart development and production of � hydrogen fuel , ...
by Associated Press
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on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 10:30 AM PDT
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Once upon a time, for an art history assignment, my class was assigned to go to The Art Institute of Chicago, pick a work of art out of one of its exhibits and write up a history of how the work of art came to be. I wandered into the neo-classical...
by Chitown Kev
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on Wed Aug 30, 2023 at 11:12 AM PDT
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I haven't seen anything posted about this yet so here goes: Fox's broadcast license is up for renewal in Philly. The Media and Democracy Project is trying to prevent the renewal. Of course they are using the Dominion suit as well as contending that...
by TheFourthTurns
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on Fri Aug 04, 2023 at 11:11 AM PDT
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Becoming a single-issue voter is getting pretty easy Also: Holding election officials accountable Biden delivering on renewable energy projects in all 50 states Madness in 'Darth Valley'... Today on The BradCast: Why I'm quickly becoming a single-issue...
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Jul 20, 2023 at 06:46 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �...
by Chitown Kev
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on Tue Jul 04, 2023 at 08:59 PM PDT
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Tonight’s selections from Santigold’s self-titled debut album . Santi White’s stage name was Santogold. She changed it to Santigold in 2009 “due to legal action from Santo Gold, a jeweller, ...
by Al Dorado
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on Thu Jul 06, 2023 at 09:01 PM PDT
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If I had my preference, I would spend my life writing happy stories about frolicking kittens and clean air. When I was a child, I was told all things could be possible. I was told the future held great promise, and that it would be up to us to lead...
by Rule of Claw
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on Tue Jul 04, 2023 at 04:52 AM PDT
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Just 12 days after the horrible tanker fire in North Philadelphia, which caused the collapse of a section of I-95 and the closure of lanes on both sides, I-95 is officially open today! For 12 days, the Democratic leadership in Pennsylvania,...
by AKALib
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on Fri Jun 23, 2023 at 04:10 PM PDT
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg promised Tuesday to help repair the East Coast’s main north-south highway as quickly as possible and said that the destruction of a section of I-95 will likely raise shipping costs because truckers must now...
by Associated Press
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on Tue Jun 13, 2023 at 02:09 PM PDT
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A tanker truck caught fire this morning underneath an overpass of I-95 in Northeast Philadelphia causing a complete collapse of a section of I-95. About 7 miles of Northbound and Southbound lanes are closed and will probably be closed for a while....
by AKALib
119 comments
on Sun Jun 11, 2023 at 07:32 AM PDT
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