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Philly is ready to light its first official kinara for the start of Kwanzaa

Philly is ready to light its first official kinara for the start of Kwanzaa

WHYY-TV (Philadelphia, PA) — Local artist Maisha Sullivan-Ongoza created the kinara and says she's elated that the city has finally added the symbol central to Kwanzaa.
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Students, critics respond to UPenn President Magill's decision to resign

Students, critics respond to UPenn President Magill's decision to resign

WHYY (Philadelphia, PA) — Magill will stay on as interim president until she is replaced, the university said in a statement.
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Johnny Doc found guilty of 70 counts of fraud and embezzlement

Johnny Doc found guilty of 70 counts of fraud and embezzlement

WHYY (Philadelphia, PA) — After a trial that lasted six weeks, a jury convicted Dougherty of most charges related to funds he stole from the union he once led.
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Pa. pols, White House react to viral Goldie chant in Philly

Pa. pols, White House react to viral Goldie chant in Philly

WHYY (Philadelphia, PA) — The Philly Palestine Coalition, which organized the protest, previously called for a boycott of the establishment for its support of the IDF.
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This state is expanding computer science education

This state is expanding computer science education

The Hill — In Utah, entrepreneurs are on a mission to see that every student in the state is exposed to programming, raising millions of dollars toward that goal.
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Why we need to save elephants to save ourselves

Why we need to save elephants to save ourselves

The Hill — An important new movie and book project make a new and urgent case to defend Africa’s wildlife because our own fate depends on it. Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson want you to know African elephants. They want you to understand them, to see them not just as the subjects of wildlife documentaries but as sentient beings vital to humanity's survival. And they want you to know that elephants are in serious danger - even threatened with extinction.
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Helping veterans find meaningful jobs while filling vacant trade jobs

Helping veterans find meaningful jobs while filling vacant trade jobs

The Hill — When Michael Szabla entered the Marine Corps, he thought it would be forever. However, his tours abroad as a combat engineer took their toll and, after four years of service, he returned to civilian life. Ready to start anew, he went through a weeklong transition assistance program where the message was clearly, "Take your GI Bill and go to college." That wasn't going to happen
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Despite Assurances, Vietnam Arrests Returned Asylum Seekers - Diplomatic Courier

Despite Assurances, Vietnam Arrests Returned Asylum Seekers - Diplomatic Courier

Diplomatic Courier — After being picked up by Australian authorities in Queensland, 17 asylum seekers were transferred to the Christmas Island detention center before being sent back to Vietnam. No one has heard from them since.
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Kids forced into domestic servitude in Haiti

Kids forced into domestic servitude in Haiti

NBC News — Evans Antoine wakes at 7 a.m. and dusts himself off from his night on the floor. While other children in his middle-class neighborhood overlooking the Haitian capital head to school, the 15-year-old puts on toeless sneakers and gets to work washing dishes, scrubbing floors and running errands at the market.
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Carbon Credit Plan Aims to Save Kenyan Trees and Elephants-and Help Villagers

Carbon Credit Plan Aims to Save Kenyan Trees and Elephants-and Help Villagers

National Geographic — The three-week-old carcass in Kenya's East Tsavo National Park is hardly identifiable as an elephant anymore. Gone are the hallmark tusks and expressive trunk; the elephant's entire face has been hacked off. The perpetrators used a machine gun, said Eric Sagwe, who leads a private antipoaching patrol in the park, pointing to bullet-scarred trees and the remains of two more elephants nearby.
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New UN Report Puts Staggering Dollar Figures on Environmental Crime Revenues

New UN Report Puts Staggering Dollar Figures on Environmental Crime Revenues

National Geographic — A GLOBAL INDUSTRY in so-called environmental crime—which includes everything from selling elephant ivory to illegal fishing to illicit logging and more—is worth between $70 billion and $213 billion a year and largely finances criminal, militia, and terrorist groups, according to a report released Tuesday by the United Nations and INTERPOL.
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Young Farmer Saves Water in Innovative Ways

Young Farmer Saves Water in Innovative Ways

National Geographic — On a cold and dry December Friday, Zach Hauser is getting ready for a weekend of hunting. The next morning at about 4 a.m., he and a handful of friends will make a nearly three-hour uphill trek into the Arizona woods. There they will tread quietly looking for elk and whitetail deer.
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Defending a Western River With Art and Collaboration

Defending a Western River With Art and Collaboration

National Geographic — In the small town of Fraser, Colorado, a bronze Dwight D. Eisenhower is having a good day: Fly fishing, he has just caught a trout out of the river and is skillfully depositing it into his basket. The former president is appropriately dressed for the occasion with wading boots, an angler's vest, and a wide-­brim hat.
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Tamayo Execution One In A Series Of US Treaty Violations

Tamayo Execution One In A Series Of US Treaty Violations

Mint Press News — Edgar Tamayo Arias was strapped in the reclining execution chair of the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville on Wednesday night, Jan. 22. The warden asked if Tamayo had any last words, but the convicted cop-killer simply mumbled "no."
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Nerve zero makes the heart grow fonder

Nerve zero makes the heart grow fonder

Orlando Sentinel — The notion that smell is important to the sexual drive of animals has long been established but a little known cranial nerve, nerve zero, may be the "missing link" that confirms that human beings rely on pheromones, chemicals that one member of a species emits that trigger an innate behavioral response in another member of the same species.
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Pa. Dems urge VP Harris to pick Gov. Josh Shapiro as running mate

Pa. Dems urge VP Harris to pick Gov. Josh Shapiro as running mate

WHYY-TV (Philadelphia, PA) — Although Gov. Shapiro won't answer whether he would take the VP role if offered, that hasn't stopped Pa. Democrats from pushing for Harris to choose him.
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