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Editorial: Expanding hours for teenage workers is the wrong answer for New Jersey labor shortage

An annual rite of summer is seeing Philadelphia and suburban teens flock to the Jersey Shore to earn cash working at boardwalk shops and restaurants. The work can be hard and the hours long, but not as long as they are going to be with the New Jersey Legislature on…

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Philly's plan for Harriet Tubman monument comes under fire for not being open to Black artists

PHILADELPHIA — The city of Philadelphia wants people to help shape the theme of a permanent Harriet Tubman statue by responding to a public input survey by July 13. But a number of Black artists and historians are criticizing the process as being unfair and insulting.

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Kyle Schwarber homers twice as the Phillies rout the Nationals to inch closer to wild-card contention

PHILADELPHIA — After an 11-0 win over the Nationals on Tuesday, the Phillies are a half a game out of a wild-card spot. Of course, there is plenty of baseball left — half an 162-game season left, to be exact — but it is still a remarkable feat, considering how…

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Philly police searching for ‘a clear picture’ of what happened at July 4 shooting on Parkway that injured 2 officers

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia police on Tuesday were attempting to determine who fired a gun and from where during Monday night’s Independence Day celebrations, in a shooting that injured two police officers and caused the panicked evacuation of thousands from the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

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Phillies’ Bryce Harper offers no date for return but vows he will play again this season

PHILADELPHIA — Bryce Harper returned to the Phillies clubhouse Tuesday and channeled his inner Terminator.

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Police in Philadelphia investigate possibility bullets that hit officers came from celebratory gunfire

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia police are investigating the possibility that the two officers who were shot at the city’s Independence Day celebrations on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway Monday were struck by stray bullets from celebratory gunfire — potentially fired from some distance away, officials said Tuesday.

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After police are shot, Philly mayor says he’ll ‘be happy’ when he’s not mayor anymore

PHILADELPHIA — An exasperated Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said early Tuesday morning after two police officers were shot that he is so worried about safety at public events that he will “be happy” when he is no longer the mayor.

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July Fourth event shooting causes panic in Philadelphia

Scores of people watching a Fourth of July fireworks show in Philadelphia ran for cover when gunshots rang out shortly after the show had started

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‘Dystopian’ video shows Americans fleeing Philadelphia shooter as fireworks explode on July 4

‘It has just been a night of absolute horror and terror,’ reporter on scene says

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Racial inequities in vaccination are emerging again, this time among Philly’s elementary-age kids

PHILADELPHIA — The Black Doctors Consortium was among the first in the city to offer newly approved COVID shots for young children in June, setting up clinics at its health center in a mostly Black neighborhood in North Philadelphia.

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Highland Park shooting death toll rises to seven with 46 injured – as it happened

Suspect pre-planned Fourth of July parade attack and wore ‘women’s clothing’, police say

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A Philadelphia man testified in six murder cases. Then, he recanted. What is the truth?

PHILADELPHIA — Rasheem Hall was handcuffed in a holding cell wedged behind a Philadelphia courtroom, awaiting trial for murder, when he heard someone call from another cell, “Yo! ‘Sheem!”

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His Hogwarts Express Magic Art Car is a haunted hayride, a theme park ride, and a theatrical experience all in one

PHILADELPHIA -- In the middle of our third lap around the parking deck of a North Philly storage facility one night in June, as I stood with eight strangers in the back of a flatbed trailer being pulled by a Jeep Wrangler, I began to wonder “How did I get…

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Never mind red or blue states. Do you live in a cat or dog state?

PHILADELPHIA -- Forget red states and blue states.

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Philadelphia shooting: Crowds flee from 4 July fireworks after two police officers shot

Both officers were rushed to hospital and are now in a stable condition

Evening Standard

Philadelphia: Two police officers injured in second Fourth of July shooting in US

Video posted on social media show hundreds of people in the crowd scattering in panic after shots were fired

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Second Independence Day shooting in US, hours after gunman kills six in Chicago parade

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says he has "no words for the kind of monster who lies in wait and fires into a crowd of families with children celebrating a holiday", as a second shooting scatters crowds in Philadelphia.

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NASA says its plan to bring Mars samples back to Earth is safe, but some people are worried

PHILADELPHIA — Since September, the Perseverance rover has been picking along an ancient river delta on Mars, its robotic arms reaching out with whirling steel drill bits to core rocks, scoop soil and suck small amounts of the red planet's atmosphere into titanium tubes.

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NASA explains the mission to bring samples of Mars soil, rock and atmosphere back to Earth

PHILADELPHIA — NASA's Mars Sample Return Mission aims to bring 30 samples of rock, soil and atmosphere now being collected by the Perseverance rover back to Earth sometime in the early 2030s. The goal is to look for signs of past life and also to find out more about the…

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Mike Jensen: Knicks trying to mimic Villanova culture with Jalen Brunson signing

PHILADELPHIA — A question is now answered. Jalen Brunson’s NBA worth is not that of a second-round draft choice, but of a player worthy of a four-year contract for $104 million, making him the new centerpiece of the New York Knicks.

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Alex Morgan is ready to remind the world what she’s got in World Cup and Olympics qualifying

PHILADELPHIA — Alex Morgan hasn’t forgotten what it was like the last time the U.S. women’s soccer team played a major Concacaf competition outside of the United States.

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After two comebacks, Phillies can’t rally a third time Saturday against Cardinals

PHILADELPHIA — The Phillies were on the verge of a comeback on Saturday. They dug themselves into a five-run deficit in the top of the first inning, fell behind again, 6-5, in the top of the fifth, and again, 7-6, in the top of the ninth. Those first two times,…

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Homegrown talent and the bullpen carry the Phillies in Game 1 of a key series against the Cardinals

PHILADELPHIA — Chalk one up for the Phillies’ farm system.

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Report: Flyers goaltender Ivan Fedotov detained in Russia on grounds of being ‘an army evader’

PHILADELPHIA — Flyers goaltender Ivan Fedotov has been detained in Saint Petersburg, Russia, for an alleged evasion of military service, according to a report from Russian news outlet Fontanka.

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Mike Sielski: From pouring beer to throwing blocks, the Eagles’ Jason Kelce is a man of Philly’s people

SEA ISLE CITY, N.J. — Some athletes answer questions. Jason Kelce delivers lectures worthy of a college-level course. The topic of that course, loosely speaking, is the relationship between the people who root for Philadelphia’s sports teams and the people who play for Philadelphia’s sports teams.

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