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06-23-2025 12:22 pm • PDX and SEA Weather
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Temple students involved in the RapidVax project talk to Kensington residents about COVID-19 vaccinations during the pandemic. Temple University College of Public Health
In Philadelphia, the leading causes of death are heart disease, cancer and unintentional drug overdose. While some of these deaths are caused by things out of our control – like genetics – many are largely preventable.
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President Donald Trump is calling into question the future of Iran’s ruling theocracy after a surprise attack on three of the country’s nuclear sites. The move seemingly contradicts his administration’s earlier calls to resume negotiations and avoid an escalation in fighting. Trump says on social media, “It’s not politically correct to use the term, ‘Regime Change,’ but if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change???” The posting on Truth Social on Sunday evening marked something of a reversal from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s morning news conference that detailed the aerial bombing. Hegseth had said, “This mission was not and has not been about regime change."
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Malik Hall, of Lewiston, Maine, dances at a Juneteeth celebration, Saturday, June 19, 2021, in South Portland, Maine. Hall is the head football coach at Bates College. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
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President Donald Trump has arrived for the G7, or Group of Seven, summit in Canada, a country he’s suggested should be annexed, as he wages a trade war with America’s longstanding allies. If there’s a shared mission at this year’s G7 summit, which begins Monday in the Rocky Mountains, it’s a desire to minimize any fireworks at a moment of combustible tensions
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Demonstrators came out in cities across the U.S. to protest President Donald Trump. Organizers of Saturday's “No Kings” demonstrations said millions marched in hundreds of events. Huge, boisterous crowds marched in Philadelphia, New York, Denver, Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles. Atlanta’s 5,000-capacity rally quickly reached its limit in front of the state Capitol. In Minnesota, organizers canceled demonstrations as police tracked a suspect in the shootings of two legislators and their spouses there. Trump was in Washington for a military parade marking the Army’s 250th anniversary. Governors across the U.S. urged calm and vowed no tolerance for violence, while some mobilized the National Guard
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The Education Department previously had a staff that was majority nonwhite, with Black women making up about 28% of the workforce. Since the Trump administration’s return, the department’s staff has reportedly been reduced by 46%.
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Around 300 National Guard troops arrived in Los Angeles early Sunday on orders from President Donald Trump. They were stationed outside a federal complex that remained largely quiet and without major protests following two days of clashes with immigration authorities. The deployment marked the first time in six decades that a state’s national guard was activated without a request from its governor, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. On Sunday morning, troops were stationed outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, dressed in tactical gear and holding long guns in front of armored vehicles
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DEI has a long history. (Nora Carol Photography via Getty Images)
Companies with more diverse teams tend to perform better across several key metrics, including revenue, profitability and worker satisfaction.
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Diverse group of teenage girls holding hands in unity and holding up protest signs during a women's rights march (Photo by Nicky Lloyd)
More than 500 Black feminists will convene in New Orleans from June 5 through 7 for what organizers are calling the largest Black feminist gathering in the United States.
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U.S. Tariffs street sign on USA (Photo by Franck Reporter)
The courts essentially deemed the president's tariff declaration invalid. Democratic Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett says President Trump “has a lot of emergencies in his mind for sure.”
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