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Philly’s city worker strike ends after Mayor Cherelle Parker strikes deal with AFSCME District Council 33 Trash collection is set to resume after Philadelphia’s first major strike of city workers since 1986.

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I met Azir Harris after he was paralyzed in a shooting in 2018. Gunfire early Monday claimed his life. | Helen Ubiñas To learn he was one of four people killed early Monday, gunned down at a Grays Ferry block party, felt like a punch in the gut. This is the column I never wanted to write.

A really tragic column from @notesfromhel.bsky.social on the gun violence that took the life of a young man who she had written about years earlier when he was paralyzed in another shooting . share.inquirer.com/ltWR0B

Mayor Cherelle Parker has turned to nonunion city workers and sanitation trainees to help with trash removal during the DC 33 strike To some, the nonunion city workers are relieving a messy situation. To others, they’re simply scabs caught in difficult circumstances.

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Happy Fourth of July

Philadelphia’s defunct history museum is now a blighted eyesore on East Market The city-owned historic property has become a gallery for trash, needles, and graffiti.

Museum-quality weeds

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Who is the man who went heavily armed to the West Chester ‘No Kings’ rally? It’s complicated. Kevin Joseph Krebs, 31, a licensed electrician from Malvern, is registered as a Democrat. But only a couple months ago he was a Republican.

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Got 12:31? "Loan Me a Dime," Boz Scaggs

Internal document shows how UnitedHealth executives prepared to tamp down investor unrest An internal document reveals how UnitedHealth Group's leadership prepared to downplay complaints about its business practices at a shareholder meeting

Well, this is fun

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Eagles stars to speak at Life Surge, a Christian wealth seminar run by founder with fraud allegations Nick Sirianni and Saquon Barkley are headlining a Christian wealth conference organized by Joe Johnson, whose companies have faced lawsuits and allegations of fraud and deceptive business practices.

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Lower Merion School District says software glitch caused the release of ‘highly sensitive’ documents "Wait, how am I reading this?" one Lower Merion parent asked. District officials said memos uploaded to BoardDocs should not have been publicly accessible.

“Wait, how am I reading this?”https://www.inquirer.com/news/lower-merion-boarddocs-leak-diligent-20250530.html

MOVE: Untangling the Tragedy | The Aftermath Philadelphia holds hearings to determine how an attempted arrest caused such profound destruction. We speak to former Mayor Wilson Goode on his own role on that day and to current MOVE members.

In the final episode of our podcast, a regretful former Mayor Goode says he never knew Philly police were planning to drop the bomb on the MOVE house. The historical record says otherwise.

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The story of how a Porsche ended up on a hiking trail in the middle of Wissahickon Valley Park On Monday morning, a Porsche Panamera was discovered on a narrow hiking trail alongside the Wissahickon Creek in Northwest Philly. Conspiracy theories emerged, online and on the trail.

Mystery, solved. www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

MOVE: Untangling the Tragedy | The Bomb Police use everything in their arsenal to remove MOVE from their Philadelphia headquarters, finally dropping a bomb on the rowhouse, sparking a fire that killed 11 people and left 250 homeless.

Full episode: share.inquirer.com/UX84wx

40 years ago this week, Philadelphia dropped a bomb on the MOVE rowhouse. Here’s what happened.

MOVE: Untangling the Tragedy | The Bomb Police use everything in their arsenal to remove MOVE from their Philadelphia headquarters, finally dropping a bomb on the rowhouse, sparking a fire that killed 11 people and left 250 homeless.

"I was in a deep sleep when the telephone rang at 3 a.m. on May 13th, 1985. The caller said 'Linn: It's going down. Get over here.' I knew immediately. And I was ready. Or at least I thought I was."

Episode 5 of our podcast is live: "The Bomb."

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MOVE: Untangling the Tragedy | The Standoff Philly tries to evict MOVE from its Osage Avenue headquarters. As neighbors evacuate the block, former Inquirer reporter Maida Odom and former NBC10 photojournalist Pete Kane stay as the siege begins.

Maida Odom kept her tape recorder running through much of the 20-hour standoff, when she took cover in neighbors' homes, behind cars. For decades she couldn't listen to it. But what it captured is raw and brave and determined. share.inquirer.com/Ys2bae

MOVE: Untangling the Tragedy | The Standoff Philly tries to evict MOVE from its Osage Avenue headquarters. As neighbors evacuate the block, former Inquirer reporter Maida Odom and former NBC10 photojournalist Pete Kane stay as the siege begins.

War reporting in West Philly - 40 years ago today

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The episode that drops Tuesday staggered me. As Yvonne Latty put it, it’s war reporting in West Philadelphia.

Inside Villanova in the 1970s, when the future Pope Leo XIV arrived on campus When Bob Prevost arrived from South Side Chicago, Villanova found itself at a crossroads.

It wasn't all disco balls and lava lamps. But there was that night he dressed as Groucho. www.inquirer.com/news/villano...

MOVE: Untangling the Tragedy | Shattered Peace Tensions rise between MOVE and the residents of 6221 Osage Avenue, as MOVE employs new disruptive tactics — including a bullhorn, vermin, and a bunker.

When MOVE became the soundtrack of Osage Avenue neighbors’ lives - Episode 3: is live: Shattered Peace.

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MOVE: Untangling the Tragedy | The Battle of 1978 Former Daily News reporter Linn Washington and civil rights activist Walt Palmer take us through the events leading up to the 1978 Powelton Village shootout, and the incarceration of the MOVE Nine.

What was MOVE’s beef that led to the 1985 bombing of its Osage Avenue rowhouse? Much stems from what happened seven years earlier, in Powelton. Here’s Episode 2 our podcast with Temple University’s Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting: The Battle of 1978.

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Charges against a man were dismissed. Then a Philly police officer escorted him into ICE custody A judge had dismissed charges against the Dominican National when, according to his lawyer, court and sheriff staff said he was wanted by ICE officers. A Philly police officer then stepped in.

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I’ve been on the edge of my seat while sound designing and mixing this show.

The first episode drops tomorrow.

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MOVE Bombing in Philadelphia Police dropped a bomb on a West Philly house in 1985. The fire caused by the explosion killed 11 people, an atrocity that Philadelphia still grapples with today.

First episode is up - our podcast with Temple's Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting, digging into what led Philadelphia to bomb its own people 40 years ago next month.

Every Tuesday a new chapter posts:

MOVE: Untangling the Tragedy.

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Shapiro arson suspect struggled with arrests, foreclosure – and left a violent trail online Cody Balmer, the man charged with the attempted homicide of Gov. Josh Shapiro, used social media to repeatedly post anti-government sentiment and memes that seemed to advocate for violent acts.

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All but Bonnie “Prince” Billy

The way the whole thing ends Playlist · Dan Rubin · 46 items

You got old ears - in the best way.
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Arsonist set fire to Pa. governor’s mansion during Passover causing ‘significant damage’ Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family were uninjured, but the fire caused a "significant amount of damage" to parts of the governor's mansion, according to state police.

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The way the whole thing ends Playlist · Dan Rubin · 46 items

Quite the valediction. I put it together in a playlist until we meet again. Will miss the destination listening. open.spotify.com/playlist/1l8...