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Nine deaths in fire at Massachusetts assisted living facility

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Jay-Z’s Made In America festival canceled for the second year in a row

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Jay-Z ’s annual Made in America festival, held in Philadelphia over Labor Day weekend, has been canceled for a second year in a row.

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New Mexico regulators worry about US plans to ship radioactive waste back from Texas

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Top officials were gathering Tuesday in southern New Mexico to mark the 25th anniversary of the nation’s only underground repository for radioactive waste.

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Biden announces 3 decommissioned Philadelphia fire companies are reopening with federal funds

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Three decommissioned fire companies in Philadelphia have been reopened with the help of federal funding.

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Outcome of key local races in Pennsylvania could offer lessons for 2024 election

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Local elections in Democratic strongholds at both ends of Pennsylvania next month could show how voters feel about progressive candidates and issues such as abortion and crime ahead of the 2024 election.

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Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw resigns after turbulent three years at the helm

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Philadelphia's mayor says the city's police commissioner, Danielle Outlaw, will step down this month to take a leadership position with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

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Jay-Z's Made In America fest canceled due to 'severe circumstances outside of production control'

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Jay-Z’s annual Made in America festival in Philadelphia has been canceled.

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Five dead in Philadelphia shooting that's nation's worst violence around July 4

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A 40-year-old killed one man in a house before fatally shooting four others on the streets of a Philadelphia neighborhood, then surrendering along with a rifle, a pistol, extra magazines, a police scanner and a bulletproof vest, police said.

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Interstate 95 reopens less than two weeks after deadly collapse in Philadelphia

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Interstate 95 has reopened less than two weeks after a deadly collapse in Philadelphia shut down a heavily traveled stretch of the East Coast’s main north-south highway.

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Collapsed stretch of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia to reopen within 2 weeks, governor says

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Pennsylvania's governor says the collapsed stretch of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia will reopen within two weeks.

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Buttigieg vows federal help to fix collapsed section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia

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U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is promising to help repair the East Coast’s main north-south highway as quickly as possible and says the destruction of a section of I-95 in Philadelphia will likely raise shipping costs because truckers must now travel longer, pricier routes.

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Philadelphia mayoral primary returned Democrats to familiar themes of crime, inequality

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The Democratic mayoral primary in Philadelphia is the latest election to represent a clash between moderates and progressives on concerns such as policing and education and to show the power of union support in big city politics.

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Democrat Cherelle Parker wins primary for Philadelphia mayor

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Voters in Philadelphia have chosen Cherelle Parker as their Democratic nominee for mayor.

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Perimeter guards absent as 2 men escaped Philadelphia prison

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There were no dedicated corrections officers watching the housing unit at a Philadelphia prison where two inmates escaped Sunday night, and there were no armed perimeter guards when they made it through a fence surrounding the prison yard, a correctional officers union official told The Associated Press Tuesday.

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$9.25 million settlement announced in 2020 protest lawsuits

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Philadelphia city officials have announced a $9.25 million settlement with hundreds of people in lawsuits challenging the police response to protests in 2020 that followed the police custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

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New Mexico seeks tougher provisions for US nuclear dump

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State officials have released a draft permit that includes tougher provisions for the U.S. government to meet if it wants to continue dumping radioactive waste from decades of nuclear research and bomb-making in the New Mexico desert.

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Philadelphia ordered to remove box covering Columbus statue

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Philadelphia is being ordered to remove the plywood box it placed over a statue of Christopher Columbus after 2020 protests over racial injustice.

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Sick child treated after migrant bus arrives in Philadelphia

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A bus carrying 28 migrants from Texas has arrived in Philadelphia, including a 10-year-old girl suffering from dehydration and a high fever who was whisked to a hospital for treatment.

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Phillies' World Series run leads wild run of Philly success

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The Philadelphia Phillies are leading a sports renaissance in the city.

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Philadelphia apologizes for experiments on Black inmates

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The city of Philadelphia issued an apology more than four decades after unethical medical experiments were allowed to be performed on mostly Black inmates at the city's since closed Holmesburg Prison from the 1950s to the 1970s.

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Police search for 5 shooters in high school football ambush

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Authorities have publicly identified the 14-year-old killed in a shooting that also wounded four other teens as they walked away from a Philadelphia high school athletic field after a football scrimmage, saying they believe he was not the intended target of the shooting.

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3 dead, 11 wounded in Philadelphia shooting on busy street

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Authorities say gunfire killed three people and wounded at least 11 others in a popular Philadelphia entertainment district.

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Biden relief plan: Major victory gets mixed one-year reviews

Read full article: Biden relief plan: Major victory gets mixed one-year reviews

It's been one year since President Joe Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan.

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'We want to win': Democrats face choice in key Senate race

Read full article: 'We want to win': Democrats face choice in key Senate race

Pennsylvania’s Democratic Party committee members backed U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb by 2 to 1 in an endorsement vote over Lt. Gov. John Fetterman in the primary race for the state's open U.S. Senate seat.

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5 teenagers charged in armed carjacking of US Rep. Scanlon

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Five teenagers face charges in Delaware after they were found in a vehicle that was stolen at gunpoint in Philadelphia from U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon.

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Philadelphia to require vaccine proof for indoor dining

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Philadelphia is the latest large city to require proof of vaccination to dine indoors.

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Defense begins in trial of Philadelphia official, union boss

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A federal judge in Philadelphia has rejected a defense motion to dismiss a corruption case mid-trial against powerful labor leader Johnny “Doc” Dougherty and City Council Member Bobby Henon.

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Correction: Indigenous Peoples-Columbus-Holidays story

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In a story published Oct. 10, 2021, about Monday’s federal holiday, The Associated Press used incorrect punctuation on multiple references to Indigenous Peoples Day.

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White House convenes mayors to discuss strategies on crime

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The Biden administration has convened the first meeting of its community violence intervention collaborative, a group of mayors and administration officials that will share best practices and work closely with the federal government to reduce gun violence.

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Philadelphia now says MOVE victims' remains weren't cremated

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A day after Philadelphia’s health commissioner was forced to resign over the cremation of partial remains belonging to victims of a 1985 bombing of the headquarters of a Black organization, the city now says those remains were never actually destroyed.

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Philly health official forced to resign over MOVE cremations

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Philadelphia’s top health official is out of a job after the mayor said he learned human remains from the 1985 bombing of the headquarters of the group MOVE had been cremated and disposed of without notifying family members.

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Report on Philadelphia police protest response finds flaws

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The 110-page report released Wednesday, Dec. 23, was commissioned by Mayor Jim Kenney as an independent review of operations during the protests. The 110-page report released Wednesday by the research group CNA and the law firm Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP was commissioned by Mayor Jim Kenney as an independent review of police operations during the protests. The city faced criticism for its police response including several interactions between officers and protesters that were recorded by witnesses and posted on social media. Other officers misused tear gas and pepper spray projectiles among other issues, the report said. A handful of key vacancies noted in the report have been filled, department officials said.

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US appeals court weighs law on supervised injection sites

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FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2019 file photo, Wilfredo Carrasquillo, center, and other protesters demonstrate in support of a proposed supervised injection site, outside the federal courthouse in Philadelphia. A federal appeals court became the latest panel to wrestle with the nations opioid epidemic as judges reviewed a plan Monday, Nov. 16, 2020, to open a medically supervised injection site in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)PHILADELPHIA – A federal appeals court became the latest panel to wrestle with the nation’s opioid epidemic as judges reviewed a long-debated plan Monday to open a medically supervised injection site in Philadelphia. Under the Safehouse plan, people could bring drugs to the clinic-like setting, use them in a partitioned bay and get medical help if they overdose. “Safehouse is inviting scores of people to come into one place … to inject themselves with heroin or fentanyl or whatever,” he said.

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Philadelphia victim's family sought ambulance, not police

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PHILADELPHIA – The family of a Black man killed by Philadelphia police officers in a shooting caught on video had called for an ambulance to get him help with a mental health crisis, not for police intervention, their lawyer said Tuesday. Police said Walter Wallace Jr., 27, was wielding a knife and ignored orders to drop the weapon before officers fired shots Monday afternoon. About 500 people had gathered at a West Philadelphia park Tuesday night and began marching through the neighborhood, chanting. The Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management tweeted around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, cautioning residents in eastern Philadelphia to remain indoors. Police had previously said 30 officers were injured in the Monday night unrest, most of them hit with thrown objects like bricks.

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Lack of study and oversight raises concerns about tear gas

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FILE - In this July 26, 2020, file photo, federal officers launch tear gas at demonstrators during a Black Lives Matter protest at the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in Portland, Ore. The Associated Press found that there is no government oversight of the manufacture and use of tear gas. Instead, the industry is left to regulate itself. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

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Lack of study and oversight raises concerns about tear gas

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The Associated Press found that there is no government oversight of the manufacture and use of tear gas. Eells has taught tear gas use with a Colorado police department and with Defense Technology, a tear gas manufacturer. They tried to run through the clouds of tear gas, which is actually a powder that hangs in the air. Thirteen U.S. senators, concerned about federal officers using tear gas, rubber bullets, and other so-called less-lethal weapons, have called on the Government Accountability Office to study the use and safety of tear gas. “We’re trapped in tear gas.”After the incident, the Charlotte City Council banned the purchase of tear gas for a year.

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Police disciplinary records are largely kept secret in US

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Daniel Pantaleo, the New York City officer who seized Eric Garner in a deadly chokehold, had eight. Both Democratic and Republican reform bills in Congress would make officers' disciplinary records public and create a national database of allegations a shift in political will that didn't exist just a few years ago. New York legislators this week voted to repeal the law that kept officers' names secret along with specifics about complaints made against them. Chris Dunn, legal director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, rejected the notion, advanced largely by Republicans, that police disciplinary records should be kept private like medical information. Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw and Mayor Jim Kenney pledged this week to publish a detailed quarterly report on complaints against city officers.

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A look back, and follow-up, on coronavirus good-deed tales

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Nearly three months later, there's been no end to the tales of good deeds we've found. Nearly three months later, theres been no end to the tales of good deeds weve found. I think now ... we could all use a little more kindness in our lives, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney says. ___While nonstop news about the effects of the coronavirus has become commonplace, so, too, have tales of kindness. One Good Thing is a series of AP stories focusing on glimmers of joy and benevolence in a dark time.

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Toddler killed, baby wounded in Philadelphia shootings

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Kat Wilcox/Pexels(CNN) - A 2-year-old girl was fatally shot in the back of the head and an 11-month-old is in critical condition after two separate shootings in Philadelphia this weekend. 'We can't protect our children'There have been more than 270 homicide victims in the city of Philadelphia this year, according to statistics by Philadelphia police. The representative said she is hopeful legislators will "be doing something very shortly" in terms of gun violence in Philadelphia. Another state representative weighed in on Twitter. "Two babies were shot this weekend in Philadelphia," Rep. Jordan A. Harris said in a Sunday night tweet.

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Philadelphia police commissioner resigns

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CNN video(CNN) - One week after calling him "the best police commissioner in America," Philadelphia's mayor announced that Richard Ross Jr. is resigning. Ross, the city of Philadelphia and others are named in a lawsuit filed Friday by two female Philadelphia Police officers. John McNesby, president of the local Fraternal Order of Police, told the Philadelphia Inquirer the city is forcing Ross out. Kennedy named Christine M. Coulter, deputy police commissioner, as acting commissioner while the city searches for a replacement for Ross. Last Thursday, after a man shot six Philadelphia police officers and caused a hours-long standoff, Kenney introduced Ross as "the best police commissioner in America."

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Philadelphia mayor says officers need help with gun control

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PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney called out the NRA and demanded a resolution to the nation's gun crisis, saying officers need help keeping numerous weapons out of criminals' hands. Kenney spoke at a news conference as an hourslong shooting standoff that left six officers injured was underway at a home in North Philadelphia. "Our officers deserve to be protected and they don't deserve to be shot at by a guy for hours with an unlimited supply of weapons and an unlimited supply of bullets. Kenney demanded action against the NRA, saying if the state and federal government won't stand up to the powerful gun rights lobby, they should let them police themselves. Officers are at risk when they come in contact with criminals armed with numerous guns, he said, and they need help to ensure they go home to their families.

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