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The NBA took a major step toward getting back on the court Thursday, with the league’s board approving a 22-team format for restarting the league season next month.

Sound is amplified by hot weather and tall buildings, an acoustic expert said.

In social media posts earlier this week, the Republican official referred to Black Lives Matter as a radical left-wing hate group.

When the 2008 financial meltdown happened, we knew we had to move fast. Now, another economic disaster looms and Philly has a chance to lessen its impact.

The time span is how long prosecutors say George Floyd was pinned to the ground under a white Minneapolis police officer's knee before he died.

A headline suggested equivalence between property destruction and violence against Black Americans. But staffers’ protest is about more than the headline.

A black bear was spotted roaming in an Ocean County township Thursday morning, authorities say.

Philadelphia is yet again imposing a mandatory, citywide curfew — but it will start two hours later than usual, at 8 p.m.

Performers say it’s still important to celebrate Pride.

Between the state's two largest population centers, dozens of protests in smaller cities, boroughs and towns have also taken place, often outside the national spotlight.

We need a vaccine for the racial pandemic.

Protesters filled the streets the same day it was announced that the charge against one Minneapolis officer was increased to second-degree murder in the death of George Floyd.

The diminishing pace suggests the job market meltdown triggered by COVID-19 may have bottomed out as more companies call at least some of their former employees back to work.

Prosecutors say 26-year-old Talib Crump admitted to stealing approximately $8,500 from an ATM — one of several that he said he blew up — on June 1.

There were widespread reports of damage after hurricane-force winds blew through neighborhoods in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.