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PORTLAND, Ore. — Imagine the trick played on the Portland Trail Blazers Thursday night.

PHILADELPHIA — The Flyers fell back under .500 on Thursday with a 4-1 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks, who have the league’s second-worst record.

The University of Pennsylvania is denying allegations that the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a Washington, D.C., think tank and President Joe Biden's former office space, solicited money from foreign entities.

PHILADELPHIA — Three days a week, dozens of people in active addiction stream through Sarah Laurel's tiny storefront on Kensington Avenue — looking for a place to sit, a hot shower or a snack from Laurel's outreach organization, Savage Sisters.

PHILADELPHIA — It was in the days after George Floyd's murder, and longtime Temple professor Molefi Kete Asante wrote a blistering five-page letter to then-university president Richard M. Englert. He called on the school to do more to support the Africology and African American studies department and combat racism.

To understand why Russia's war on Ukraine remains the key foreign issue for Americans in 2023, you should watch the video of a Ukrainian mother whose son died when a Russian missile blasted a nine-story apartment building in Dnipro on Saturday.

PHILADELPHIA — For the first time in three years, the NWSL draft felt like a big deal again.

WASHINGTON — After storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with an angry mob of supporters of former President Donald Trump, James Rahm Jr. took to Facebook to brag about what he’d done.

PHILADELPHIA — Not long ago, John Tortorella would’ve benched a player for kneeling during the national anthem. These days, if you wear your homophobia like a Pride flag, you earn Tortorella’s respect.