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A home in Port Richey, Fla., prepared for Hurricane Milton on Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Mike Carlson)

The October Surprise of 2024 is named Milton | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, a new poll shows fracking is still not very popular in Pennsylvania.

Will Bunch | Columnist

An estimated 240 billion pennies are more likely in a piggy bank instead of being circulated, writes the Editorial Board, while the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia keeps making pennies that don’t get spent to replace pennies that didn’t get spent.

Penny dreadful? America slowly makes its move to a cashless economy. | Editorial

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Dockworker Meikysha Wright and others strike outside the Virginia International Gateway in Portsmouth, Va., on Oct. 1.

Longshoremen strike underscores AI challenges faced by workers | Editorial

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People react during a ceremony at the site of the Nova music festival, where hundreds of revelers were killed and abducted by Hamas and taken into Gaza, on the one-year anniversary of the attack, near Kibbutz Reim, southern Israel, on Monday.

Letters to the Editor | Oct. 8, 2024

Letters to the Editor, For The Inquirer

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the Israeli-American Council summit last month.

As Trump attempts to avoid facing Jan. 6 charges in court, voters must try him at the polls

Solomon Jones | Columnist

The October Surprise of 2024 is named Milton | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, a new poll shows fracking is still not very popular in Pennsylvania.

Will Bunch | Columnist

A home in Port Richey, Fla., prepared for Hurricane Milton on Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Mike Carlson)

A home in Port Richey, Fla., prepared for Hurricane Milton on Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Mike Carlson)

The October Surprise of 2024 is named Milton | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, a new poll shows fracking is still not very popular in Pennsylvania.

Will Bunch | Columnist

As Trump attempts to avoid facing Jan. 6 charges in court, voters must try him at the polls

Solomon Jones | Columnist

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the Israeli-American Council summit last month.

One year after the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre, hostage families feel betrayed

Trudy Rubin | Columnist

Demonstrators in Tel Aviv rallying last month against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, calling for the release of hostages held in Gaza by Hamas.

The only freedom that matters to today’s Republicans is the right to lie

Will Bunch | Columnist

Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R., Ohio) speaks during the vice presidential debate hosted by CBS News with Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Oct. 1.

How scammy, polluting cryptocurrency hijacked the 2024 election

Will Bunch | Columnist

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at the 2024 Bitcoin Conference in Nashville in July.

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An estimated 240 billion pennies are more likely in a piggy bank instead of being circulated, writes the Editorial Board, while the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia keeps making pennies that don’t get spent to replace pennies that didn’t get spent.

Penny dreadful? America slowly makes its move to a cashless economy. | Editorial

The Editorial Board

Dockworker Meikysha Wright and others strike outside the Virginia International Gateway in Portsmouth, Va., on Oct. 1.

Longshoremen strike underscores AI challenges faced by workers | Editorial

The Editorial Board

A photo hangs on a refrigerator next to bullet holes in a house at Kibbutz Kissufim in southern Israel. The kibbutz was overrun by Hamas militants from the nearby Gaza Strip on Oct. 7, 2023, when they killed at least 1,200 Israelis and took 250 hostages.

A year after 10/7: A day of unspeakable grief and 12 months of unrelenting war | Editorial

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The Inquirer’s 2024 general election endorsement guide

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The Editorial Board recommends former state auditor general Eugene DePasquale for state attorney general.

Eugene DePasquale for Pa. attorney general | Endorsement

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Special Reports

America’s maternal care system dehumanized me. I became a doula to change it.

I’m a Black doula who took charge of my birth. Now I’m taking on America’s $111 billion maternal care industry.

MaryNissi Lemon, For The Inquirer

MaryNissi Lemon of Lemonlife Doula and Birthing Services explains what it will look like when the baby’s head crowns during the childbirth education class at the Garsen Center, 4704 Leiper St. Phila., Pa. on May 22, 2022.

MaryNissi Lemon of Lemonlife Doula and Birthing Services explains what it will look like when the baby’s head crowns during the childbirth education class at the Garsen Center, 4704 Leiper St. Phila., Pa. on May 22, 2022.

America’s maternal care system dehumanized me. I became a doula to change it.

I’m a Black doula who took charge of my birth. Now I’m taking on America’s $111 billion maternal care industry.

MaryNissi Lemon, For The Inquirer

How I ended up alone in a cell for 45 days

Akeil Robertson-Jowers, For The Inquirer

Philadelphia artist Akeil Robertson-Jowers painted "US#1" while incarcerated. He created the piece in collaboration with other incarcerated men.

5 medical professionals on why they stay as hospital workers flee post-COVID

Mary Adamson, Maureen May, Uhura Free Russ, Latoya Charise Nesbitt, Carlos Aviles, and Jonathan Ley

Mary Adamson (center), an ICU Nurse at Temple University Hospital, with other Temple nurses. Adamson wrote a piece about all of the nurses that remain in the profession.

Six Philadelphians reflect on Black History Month and their hopes for the future | Opinion

Inquirer Opinion Editors, For The Inquirer

Protesters calling to defund the police march down East Market Street near Eighth Street in Center City Philadelphia in June 2020. Protests against racism and police violence continued in Philadelphia for a second week after the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.

In their own words, 7 moms whose kids were killed by gun violence share what they’ve lost

Helen Ubiñas | Columnist

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