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A white former police officer is on trial in Philadelphia over the fatal 2017 shooting of a Black motorist

PHILADELPHIA — Even the Tide is behind lock and key.

PHILADELPHIA — In response to the city's ongoing gun violence crisis and the shooting of two police officers at an Independence Day celebration, leaders in Philadelphia's City Council this week said it was time to reexamine the controversial police tactic known as stop-and-frisk.

PHILADELPHIA — The bullets that struck two officers during Philadelphia’s Independence Day celebrations were fired from the same gun — and came from outside the event site, potentially fired from up to a mile or more away, police said Wednesday.

Adam Conover and President Barack Obama want to unruin the federal government. But they’re not really willing to truly consider that it’s too big and too wasteful.

PHILADELPHIA — In May, a South Philadelphia man stepped out of his house for a smoke when police said a gun-wielding man rode up on a bicycle and demanded money. The homeowner dropped his cigarette, pulled out his licensed gun and fatally shot the would-be robber in the head.

PHILADELPHIA — Prosecutors and defense attorneys continued to trade legal volleys Friday in the case of Joshua Macias, the election denier from Virginia who traveled to the Pennsylvania Convention Center — in a QAnon-emblazoned Hummer containing weapons and ammunition — as votes were being counted in the 2020 presidential election.

Recent votes are galvanising debate within the Democratic Party about how to address crime, but challenges abound.

PHILADELPHIA — Joshua Macias can’t seem to stay out of trouble.