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Sixers rally late for 133-130 victory, snap Bucks’ 16-game winning streak

MILWAUKEE — James Harden got free from the defense and pulled up for 3, sinking the shot that got the 76ers back within one.

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Chuck Fletcher on Flyers’ failure to trade James van Riemsdyk: ‘We certainly made everybody aware he was available’

PHILADELPHIA —Looking at his call log, Chuck Fletcher saw he’d taken two calls yesterday while making 17. For the last three weeks, Fletcher said he’s been working the phones, trying to move his biggest pending unrestricted free agent, James van Riemsdyk. But when the 3 p.m. Friday deadline hit, to…

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Republicans want to link Penn's Chinese donors to Joe Biden, but experts say that's a stretch

WASHINGTON — As Republicans targeting President Joe Biden take aim at the University of Pennsylvania and the offices where classified documents were found, they've also piled on another fraught topic: Penn's financial support from Chinese donors.

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Philadelphia's driving equality law reduced traffic stops but not racial disparities in its first year

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia law that bars police from pulling over drivers for some minor infractions contributed to a decline in traffic stops during its first year, but it did not meet its proponents’ stated goal of reducing racial disparities associated with those stops.

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Groundbreaking NFL coach Lori Locust on her path to the Titans

INDIANAPOLIS — In 2017, Lori Locust once sat in the same chairs as the 41 women who took part in the seventh annual NFL Women’s Forum held Tuesday afternoon at the JW Grand Ballroom in downtown Indianapolis.

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Commentary: Reflections, and regrets, 20 years after I opened the Department of Homeland Security

This was my second draft notice. The first came from Richard Nixon in 1969 and took me to Southeast Asia. More than 30 years later came notice number two, this time from George W. Bush. The president called me to leave my post as Pennsylvania’s governor to serve in the…

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Trudy Rubin: The steadfastness of Galapagos tortoises is a symbol for our times

I took a vacation to the Galapagos in hopes that mingling with peaceful animals would provide some relief from writing about Vladimir Putin's bloody crimes.

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'The right thing to do': How a darkened Philly skyline has helped save birds

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia lies in a major path for millions of birds navigating the Atlantic Flyway, an especially busy avian skyway each spring.

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Sixers come out on losing end of shootout with Mavericks, 133-126

DALLAS – It was Turn Back the Clock Night for the 76ers.

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Keith Pompey: There will be no winners in Sixers-Nets trade if James Harden leaves this summer without an NBA title

MIAMI — Who will ultimately win the James Harden and Ben Simmons trade?

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Marcus Hayes: Carson Wentz should step away from the NFL. It worked for Randall Cunningham and Michael Vick.

PHILADELPHIA — In their first smart decision in perhaps a decade, the Commanders on Monday released Carson Wentz. The move was expected, but it resonated throughout the NFL world nevertheless.

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Meet the man determined to climb the tallest tree in all 67 Pennsylvania counties

DANVILLE, Pa. — On most days, Van Wagner has pine needles in his pockets and sawdust in his salt-and-pepper beard. He teaches his high school students about agriculture and trees, trims tree branches on the side and, if he can carve out a few extra hours, Wagner even sings folk…

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No additional jail time for Trump supporters who brought guns near the 2020 Philly vote count

PHILADELPHIA — Two Virginia men who were convicted of carrying guns near the Philadelphia Convention Center as votes from the presidential election were being counted in 2020 were given sentences Wednesday that spared them from additional jail time.

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Supreme Court rules Delaware wrongfully grabbed hundreds of millions in unclaimed MoneyGram funds

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that Delaware wrongfully grabbed hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed funds from customers of international payments giant MoneyGram, under the old legal doctrine of escheat.

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Philadelphia progressives are building a new political machine. 2023 will test it

PHILADELPHIA — Over the past six years, progressives in Philadelphia have scored a series of victories that have shaken the city's political scene, and this year, they're looking for their biggest win yet: the mayor's office.

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Keeping hope alive amid the stress: Pa. mother stranded in Mexico by immigration blunder is expecting a baby

PHILADELPHIA — Last week, Karen Serrano Roberts, the Yeadon mother of five who has been stuck in an immigration nightmare for nearly two years, turned 32. Alone in Mexico.

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A city-led effort to reach potential shooters has produced encouraging results, Philly officials say

PHILADELPHIA — A city-run initiative that aims to provide services to those at risk of shooting someone or being shot has shown encouraging results in its attempts to help address the city’s gun violence, Philadelphia officials said Tuesday.

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Marcus Hayes: Flyers finally wave white flag, pivot toward a Sixers-like ‘Process’

The Flyers have finally waved the white flag. It’s eight years overdue, but at least, at last, the time has come.

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Teens accused of fatally beating a 73-year-old man with a traffic cone ordered to stand trial

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia judge on Monday ordered that the two young teens accused of fatally beating a 73-year-old man with a traffic cone in North Philadelphia last summer should stand trial for murder.

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Inside the center-field education of Phillies utility infielder Edmundo Sosa

CLEARWATER, Fla. — When Phillies manager Rob Thomson told Edmundo Sosa he was considering playing him in center field this season, Sosa was in Tampa, Fla., for a weeklong workout with a few players who were represented by his agency, Octagon. His friends, major league outfielders Julio Rodríguez, Adolís Garcia,…

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Comcast's Dalila Wilson-Scott talks diversity, inclusion and philanthropy in workplaces of any size

Comcast Corp. has 189,000 employees, and Dalila Wilson-Scott wants to hear from all of them.

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After they won their wage theft cases, they waited years to get paid. Some still wait

PHILADELPHIA — Two years after his boss shorted him thousands of dollars in pay for his construction work, Marcos Tlacopilco won in court.

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The Philly Half Marathon blocked an organ donation driver from delivering a liver. So a surgeon ran through the race to get it

PHILADELPHIA — With the clock ticking on his precious cargo of a human liver for transplant surgery, a van driver made good time on his way from New York to Philadelphia on a Saturday morning in November.

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David Murphy: Three thoughts on the Sixers after a split with the Grizzlies and Celtics

The weekend was quintessential Sixers: a two-game stretch that gave you every reason to think they can compete in a playoff against the best the NBA can offer, and several reasons to wonder whether they can actually win four times in seven games.

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War costs — and sales — mount for Pa. companies with Ukraine ties a year after Russia invaded

When Russia attacked Ukraine last February, investors such as Pennsylvania's state pension funds rushed to dump their Russian investments, horrified at the prospect of profiting from the unprovoked invasion.

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