The US city of Philadelphia has reversed course on a city-wide mask mandate, with officials citing a drop in Covid-19 infections and hospitalizations despite reimposing the same rule less than a week ago. The city’s Board of Health announced the move on Friday, pointing to a “recent leveling-off of case counts …
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The city of Philadelphia has set a record in 2021 with 559 murders committed, the most in its history since records began. It has outstripped more populous cities that have also seen rates spike, like New York and Los Angeles. The rate surged from last year’s 499 murders and represented …
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Mayor Jim Kenney signed the “Driving Equality” measure into law last week, barring police from making traffic stops for a range of low-level offenses to ensure “just, equitable, and fair enforcement of the law for all people,” as well as to “prevent racial disparities and to protect public safety in …
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The alleged attack reportedly occurred around 11 p.m. on Wednesday as a Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) train traveled from Philadelphia to neighboring suburb Upper Darby. SEPTA said one of its employees eventually saw the rape in progress and called police, enabling officers to apprehend the partially clothed suspect, later …
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Two young men in their early 20s were killed and a 16-year-old girl was injured when a gunman or gunmen fired into the crowd at a party Sunday night outside a store in west Philadelphia, the local NBC News affiliate reported, citing police investigators. An estimated 90-100 shots were fired, …
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“@realDonaldTrump election night 800,000 lead was wiped out by hundreds of thousands of mail in ballots counted without any Republican observer,” Giuliani tweeted on Sunday morning, a day after Associated Press called Pennsylvania and the entire election in favor of Joe Biden. “Why were Republicans excluded?,” he continued, before asking …
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The council reportedly voted 14-3 on Thursday to prohibit use of the crowd-control tools during protests. The legislation will be enacted once it’s signed by Democratic Mayor Jim Kenney, who has tried to appease demonstrators this week by blaming the unrest on “systemic racism” and promising actions to “bring true …
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The abandoned vehicle was discovered around 10pm local time, roughly an hour after a citywide curfew kicked in on Wednesday night. Police cordoned off the area while ATF agents and a bomb squad recovered multiple “propane tanks, torches and possible dynamite sticks,”according to 6abc Action News. No one was found …
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The curfew is being put in place after violent protests spun out of control on Monday and Tuesday following the death of Walter Wallace Jr., whom police shot after he refused to drop his knife during an altercation on Monday afternoon. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf ordered several hundred members of the …
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Not long after activists gathered for another round of protests on Tuesday night, looters were seen hitting several stores around the city, including a Foot Locker, a Target, a Walmart and a liquor store. Footage of the plunder has circulated across social media. Groups of individuals were seen milling around …
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