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A private prison company runs one of the temporary sites where residents are being relocated.

A month after polls closed, the city commissioner and his staff are still being targeted with death threats.

From Four Seasons to “Eagles basketball,” five times the Trump campaign lawyer called out the city — and how that worked out for him.

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These kinds of cases are likely under-counted, however, thanks to a fraught relationship with police.

"One thing I can’t comprehend is how hungry people are to consume lies," City Commissioner Al Schmidt told CNN.

More Tasers will not help solve ongoing divestment in Black Philadelphia, the cofounder of the Amistad Law Project argues.

Four possible scenarios to watch for after Election Day.

Republican leaders in Harrisburg refused to vote on a fix for the CARES Act program.

The PPD says it can't afford to outfit officers with stun guns. Meanwhile, OT has ballooned 40%.

The online tool relies on a system that's two decades old, and some of the wording is unclear.