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As election results expected: US-based Fabian Lyonga rejects violence, ...
The US-based Cameroonian, in a statement issued October 21, days to the proclamation of the results of the hotly contested presidential poll, strongly appealed to all Cameroonian youth, both at home and abroad, to embrace peace, reject...
Liberia: Pres. Boakai’s Executive Order Halting TIA Concession Ignores Justice Ministry’s Legal Opinion Validating the Deal
MONROVIA – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s Executive Order No. 154 suspending the controversial Traffic Monitoring and Revenue Assurance Contract between the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) and Telecom International Alliance (TIA) has...
HGSE Program Partners with States to Evaluate, Identify Effective Education Policies
The States Leading States initiative — a Harvard Graduate School of Education program that aims to identify effective schooling policies by analyzing state education programs — announced its first cohort of partner states last month. The group...
A new town or 1,200 homes? Sussex Council to hold Cool Spring Crossing hearing
Why Should Delaware Care? As Sussex County grapples with how best to manage the onslaught of new developments in the region, county leaders now must choose between two plans for a large-scale development, Cool Spring Crossing, both with elements...
Dover leaders mull opioid recommendations
Why Should Delaware Care? Kent County leaders in recent months have had to reckon with a lack of addiction treatment and homelessness services in the region. As part of that reckoning, a new committee stood up by Dover’s mayor is tasked with...
Revised Chesapeake Bay agreement nears approval with Pennsylvania on board
A revised agreement to restore the Chesapeake Bay is speeding toward final passage, after a key committee rejected Maryland attempts to strengthen parts of the plan and voted Tuesday to forward it to bay-area leaders for their OK. The agreement...
SNAP Benefits Government Shutdown: Full list of what states are doing to help families
WASHINGTON - As the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) program faces a weekend cutoff due to the U.S. government shutdown, states are stepping in to support low-income families who depend on the aid for food. Here's what each...
Pa. and N.J. want data centers to guarantee their own power supply
In a surprise move that could benefit PJM Interconnection, four state governors have submitted a joint proposal formulated with the Data Center Coalition, an industry group, that favors approving connections to data center firms that will generate...
Is Joel Embiid playing tonight vs the Brooklyn Nets? Latest update on the Philadelphia 76ers star’s injury report (November 2, 2025)
Philadelphia 76ers Joel Embiid vs the Boston Celtics (Image via Getty) The Philadelphia 76ers will take the court without their superstar center, Joel Embiid, as they face the Brooklyn Nets tonight, November 2, 2025. The reigning MVP has been...
Why Billions of Gallons of Raw Sewage Keep Ending up in Philadelphia Waters
"With a new analysis showing where the pollution is going, environmental advocates call on public officials to do more to stop it." "PHILADELPHIA—Some 280 years after a river-swimming Benjamin Franklin petitioned to curb water pollution here, the...
Can Halloween weather predict Ohio's winter? Here’s what folklore says
Weather folklore suggests that a crisp, frosty Halloween could signal a harsher winter ahead. Scientists watch climate patterns like La Niña, which can bring colder air and more snow to Ohio. The Old Farmer's Almanac predicts a colder-than-normal...
Top 10 states Americans want to move to most
In January, U.S. Census data showed that Americans were flocking to the Sun Belt states and according to a new report from moveBuddha that trend is still going strong, News.Az reports citing CNBC. The relocation tech company used proprietary data...
The World Turns to Energy Pragmatism
Welcome to Dispatch Energy! Climate policies around the world are undergoing a remarkable reset. Just this week, Bill Gates rocked the climate discussion by arguing that a “doomsday outlook is causing much of the climate community to focus too...
Sussex Conservation District advances coastal migration planning
The Sussex Conservation District has reached a major milestone in its coastal migration planning initiative, a multiyear effort to help landowners respond to the impacts of sea level rise, saltwater intrusion and habitat loss in Delaware’s...
New catch limit set for "the most important fish in the sea"
Menhaden are a vital food source for other species, including the overfished Atlantic striped bass. The reduction could impact commercial crabbers and other fisheries that rely on menhaden for bait. Fishermen and industry representatives expressed...
Blood in the water. How N.J. became a great American shark state.
To read Monster sharks have returned to the Jersey Shore. Is it a nightmare or a new golden age?, click here. Peter Benchley thought he had one last shot. So the aspiring novelist from a family of writers pitched a whopper. A great white shark!...
Rare Earth Minerals – From China … or the USA?
US defense, security, industry should not be held hostage to China, when we could mine here You’d be crazy to buy a car based on its shiny exterior, dazzling instruments and gorgeous leather interior– but without examining the engine or taking a...
South Korea will build a nuclear-powered submarine in Philadelphia, Trump says
South Korea will build a nuclear-powered submarine in Philadelphia, President Donald Trump announced this week. Writing on Truth Social Wednesday Trump said, “South Korea will be building its Nuclear Powered Submarine in the Philadelphia...
Evanda Gale Jefferson, pioneering Black senior chemist at Gulf Oil and Baptist missionary, has died at 77
Evanda Gale Jefferson, 77, of Secane, Delaware County, an environmental chemistry pioneer, the first Black senior chemist at Gulf Oil Corp. in Philadelphia, Baptist missionary, mentor, and volunteer, died Tuesday, Oct. 14, of cancer at the home of...
Meet Redwing, the torpedo-shaped robot testing the limits of ocean observation
If it makes it home in about five years, Redwing will become the first autonomous underwater vehicle to circumnavigate the globe. “The ocean is a big place, and we know more about space than we do about the ocean,” said Leslie-Ann McGee, the chief...