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Crime
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Levittown man charged with beheading father says he was trying to perform a citizen’s arrest

Justin D. Mohn took the stand in a suburban Philly courtroom on the third day of his trial on murder and other charges stemming from the homicide of his father.

4 months ago

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Employment
Government
Law
National

Supreme Court clears the way for Trump’s plans to downsize the federal workforce

The order comes despite warnings that critical government services will be lost and hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be out of their jobs.

4 months ago

The exterior of a house in Levittown where a murder took place
Crime
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania

Woman at Levittown son’s murder trial recounts finding husband’s decapitated corpse

Justin D. Mohn, 33, faces charges of murder, abuse of a corpse, terrorism related crimes and other offenses for the 2024 killing of Michael F. Mohn.

4 months ago

Police comb the scene of a mass shooting in Grays Ferry
Crime
Gun Violence
Philadelphia
6abc

3 people killed, 10 others injured in Grays Ferry mass shooting

The mass shooting comes on the heels of another in South Philadelphia that left eight people injured over the weekend.

4 months ago

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Crime
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Policing

South Philadelphia mass shooting sees 8 injured

Police said Saturday that all victims are in stable condition.

4 months ago

Bryan Kohberger, charged in the murders of four University of Idaho students
Crime
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania

Bryan Kohberger pleads guilty to murder in stabbings of 4 Idaho students to avoid death penalty

Kohberger was arrested in eastern Pennsylvania in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students in 2022.

4 months ago

Sean
Crime
National

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs acquitted of most serious charges, convicted of prostitution-related offenses

Combs and his defense team argued that the women were willing participants and that none of his violence justified the severity of the charges.

4 months ago

Bryan Kohberger enters the courtroom for his arraignment hearing in Latah County District Court, May 22, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho
Crime
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania

Bryan Kohberger to plead guilty to killing 4 University of Idaho students, multiple media report

The criminal justice graduate student was arrested in Chestnuthill Township, roughly 90 miles north of Philadelphia, weeks after the killings.

4 months ago

A pregnant U.S. citizen stands at a protest for birthright citizenship
Studio 2
National

Reactions to landmark SCOTUS rulings

The Court limits blocking of Trump’s executive orders, risking end of birthright citizenship in some areas. Another ruling allows parents to opt kids out of certain classes.

Air Date: June 30, 2025 12:00 pm

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A pregnant U.S. citizen stands at a protest for birthright citizenship
Immigration
Law
National

What’s next for birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court’s ruling

The legal battle over President Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship is not over, despite the administration’s victory Friday limiting nationwide injunctions.

4 months ago

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Books
Government Accountability
K-12
LGBTQ

Supreme Court says Maryland parents can pull their kids from public school lessons using LGBTQ books

The justices reversed lower-court rulings in favor of the Montgomery County school system in suburban Washington.

4 months ago

Supreme Court
Government Accountability
Health Care
Public Health

Supreme Court preserves key part of Obamacare coverage requirements

The court rejected a challenge from Christian employers to the Affordable Care Act's preventive health care coverage requirement that affects some 150 million Americans.

4 months ago

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Government Accountability
National

Supreme Court limits nationwide injunctions, but fate of Trump birthright citizenship order unclear

The outcome was a victory for the Republican president, who has complained about individual judges throwing up obstacles to his agenda.

4 months ago

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NPR
Home & Family
LGBTQ
Social Justice

‘Equal dignity’: U.S. map shows the impact of Obergefell v. Hodges decision

"They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law," then-Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the June 26, 2015, ruling legalizing same-sex marriage.

4 months ago

The U.S. Supreme Court building
Health Care
National

States can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court rules

Thursday's 6-3 ruling comes amid a wider Republican-backed push to defund the country’s biggest abortion provider.

4 months ago

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