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Facing potential headwinds with both young voters and Black voters, President Biden's Morehouse College commencement address focused on his view of the importance - and future of - democracy.
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month. WPSU talks to the Penn State Community, asking the student's about their mental health concerns and getting answers from local experts.
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The health system is redirecting patients from its St. Marys hospital to its DuBois location. Elk is now one of six counties in north-central Pa. without labor and delivery services.
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Hundreds of millions of riders use Pennsylvania’s public transit system each year, but the American Rescue Plan funds that help keep them running will exhaust this year.
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Lebanon County voters will once again be able to drop off their ballots outside the courthouse. But this time they won’t be putting them into a box.
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Pennsylvania taxpayers paid $410,000 for state flights last year, the most since 2011. Shapiro took most of those flights.
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The secrecy leaves taxpayers in the dark about who underwrites the outings and what interests they may have in state government policy.
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A staffing company that performed COVID-19 contact tracing for Pennsylvania and exposed the private medical information of about 72,000 residents will pay $2.7 million in a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department and a whistleblower.
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A new mental health facility will open in St. Marys next year. Providers say mental health referrals are on the rise in Northwestern Pennsylvania.
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Pennsylvania’s Department of Education will accept grant applications for up to $10 million in school environmental facility repairs.
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David McCormick and other politicians are using the camp for their messaging. Students say they feel unsafe after an attack with an unknown substance and other incidents.
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Higher education officials in Ohio are reviewing race-based scholarships after last year's Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action.
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Boeing held its annual shareholders meeting on Friday. This follows a difficult week and year for the plane-maker, which is facing renewed scrutiny over its safety and production practices.
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A group of people involved in past Democratic campaigns talks about skepticism that President Biden can win the state again in 2024.
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Cash-for-votes is such a pervasive problem in India that the election commission says it seized nearly half a billion dollars of cash and inducements before the polls even opened last month.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Arshad Malik, Afghanistan country director for Save the Children, about the aftermath of the deadly floods that hit several provinces there last weekend.
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NPR's Scott Simon and Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media talk about the struggles of the NBA's defending champion Denver Nuggets and about Caitlin Clark's first week as a pro in the WNBA.
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A historically Black university in North Carolina may have had its last graduation as the school fights for its accreditation.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Amy McCarthy, a reporter for the food blog Eater and fan of Red Lobster, about the closure of dozens of the chain's restaurants.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with strategic studies professor Phillips O'Brien of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland about the significance of Russia's latest military offensive in Ukraine.
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A Crimean Tatar couple in Ukraine, displaced by Russian troops, sees parallels to the Soviets' forced deportation of 200,000 Tatars from Crimea 80 years ago.
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A flag flap for a Supreme Court justice, and both major presidential campaigns agree to debates, albeit earlier than is traditional, with some rule changes.
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The U.S. military says the first shipment of aid has moved ashore into Gaza over a new, massive floating pier. It wants to scale up to 150 trucks entering Gaza per day.
It's Mental Health Awareness Month. WPSU asked Penn State students their questions about mental health. Then we got experts to answer them for our Mental Health Q&A series this month.
For Mental Health Awareness month in May, WPSU will broadcast a series of five hour-long specials, hosted by Kimberly Adams of Marketplace. Listen to the next episode, "Incarcerated with Mental Illness," Thursday, May 23 at 3:00 p.m. on WPSU-FM.
Friday, June 13 at 11:00 a.m. & Monday, June 17 at 8:00 p.m. on WPSU-FM
Join us to celebrate the 10th anniversary of In Performance at Penn State in June, with the student musicians of the Penn State Philharmonic playing Rachmaninoff's "Symphonic Dances" and a performance from the Penns Woods Music Festival.
Join us to celebrate the 10th anniversary of In Performance at Penn State in June, with the student musicians of the Penn State Philharmonic playing Rachmaninoff's "Symphonic Dances" and a performance from the Penns Woods Music Festival.
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