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A Pennsylvania home where George Washington stayed during the Revolutionary War is for sale for $3.295 million. The house, in Fort Washington, served as the army commander’s headquarters during the White Marsh encampment, which spanned six weeks in late 1777 and culminated in the Battle of White Marsh, after which the British Army retreated to Philadelphia. Named the Emlen House, the original home was built in 1717 for the Emlens, a prominent Quaker family, to use as a summer retreat. The Colonial house has a fieldstone exterior, a portico and dormer windows. Sited on 2.64 acres, the three-story home has...

The 2011 stabbing death of Philadelphia school teacher Ellen Greenberg has again been ruled a suicide by the city's Medical Examiner, after years of her parents advocating for authorities to take a closer look. Greenberg was 27 years old when she was stabbed 20 times, including 10 times in the back of the neck and head. Greenberg was found deceased in the Manayunk apartment she shared with her fiance Sam Goldberg, and the wounds were ruled to have been self-inflicted. A kitchen knife with a 10-inch blade was found sticking out of her chest. Greenberg's parents have fought for 14...

Pennsylvania was supposed to be the energy state that got it right.Thanks to the Marcellus Shale formation, natural gas made Pennsylvania a net exporter of electricity. Fracking enabled Pennsylvania to power homes and industry not just here, but across the entire Mid-Atlantic. The state’s natural gas built modern power plants, attracted investment, and helped America move toward energy independence.So how is it that Pennsylvanians are still paying more for electricity every year?Over the past five years, electricity prices in Pennsylvania have risen 45%. It is a tick lower than the national average of a 46% price increase. However, that is...

Two people arrested by Ambridge police for protesting during an immigration raid over the summer are suing the Beaver County borough and its officers in federal court. Two separate complaints alleging malicious prosecution and violations of First Amendment rights were filed in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh on Wednesday by Isaac Elias and Katherine Melson. They name as defendants Ambridge and Beaver County, as well as Ambridge Officer Michael Longo. Additionally, Elias is suing Sgt. Sokheng “Jason” Seng, while Melson is suing Sgt. Alfred Bialik and Lt. John Chickos. On July 31, ICE agents conducted a “saturation patrol” in Ambridge...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California has become the third U.S. state to designate Diwali — the Hindu “Festival of Lights” — as an official statewide holiday. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law Tuesday to go into effect on Jan. 1. It would authorize public schools and community colleges to close on Diwali. State employees could elect to take the day off and public school students will get an excused absence to celebrate the holiday. The new law recognizes that Diwali is also celebrated by Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists. Pennsylvania was the first U.S. state to make Diwali a...

Public data show that the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, under Larry Krasner, may be leveraging violence prevention grants for political capital, raising troubling questions about transparency and accountability, especially surrounding the surge in funding to so-called “violence interrupters.” These groups, composed of faith-based organizations, nonprofits led by former felons, and other community groups that promise to use their roots in the community to intervene in “beefs” before they escalate to violence, gained national traction following the 2020 “defund the police” movement. The evidence shows that the vast majority of the grants to violence interrupters was dispensed outside normal city auditing...

Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania voiced his support for President Trump's proposed 20-point peace plan to end the war between Hamas and Israel, as the conflict approaches its two-year anniversary. On Sunday, the Senator posted on X, "Good morning to everyone except all the protesters who aren’t protesting for Hamas to accept the peace deal." On Friday, Senator Fetterman posted an image of a headline that read "Hamas says it agrees to release all Israeli hostages under Trump Gaza plan," writing, "Hamas must choose peace or its own destruction.Send the hostages home, now. As an unapologetic supporter of Israel, the...

Antifa activists are hosting a three-day training conference for fellow antifascists in Philadelphia this week, despite Democrats insisting that antifa is not an organization. The annual Philly Skillshare Convergence will occur over the coming Friday through Sunday, according to an advertisement circulating in antifa circles. So-called “skillshares” are educational sessions where activists gather to learn street-level strategies, often militant in nature. This year’s skillshare in Philadelphia is slated to offer a series of hourlong workshops, including a lesson on evading law enforcement and eluding capture.

An American man dying of heart failure received the heart of a Canadian man with ALS who chose a medically assisted death in what is being described as a landmark case of a heart transplant following euthanasia. Organs have been donated after MAID before, involving liver, kidney or lung transplants. “Here we report the first case of a successful cardiac transplantation after MAID,” a team of doctors from The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and The Ottawa Hospital report in the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. The case involved a 59-year-old man with rapidly worsening heart failure who wasn’t...

The left-wing climate scientist and political activist Michael Mann resigned on Tuesday from his post as vice provost at the University of Pennsylvania. Mann stirred up controversy repeatedly over the past several months, most recently when he shared a social media post that compared Charlie Kirk to a member of the "Hitler Youth." Mann will remain at the university as a professor and the director of its Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media. Mann explained in a blog post Monday that his environmental advocacy work "at times feels in conflict" with the University of Pennsylvania's institutional neutrality policy. "At...

Philadelphia officials on Tuesday raised the flag of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) at City Hall. The ceremony marked the CCP’s Oct. 1 National Day and involved a co-organizer with ties to Beijing’s regime, according to The Epoch Times. The event reportedly whitewashes a violent legacy of mass killings, religious crackdowns and cultural destruction that began when Mao Zedong seized power in 1949. Outside the event, protesters from the Tibetan Association of Philadelphia demanded the city take down the banner. “The red flag of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is not a symbol of culture; it is the emblem of...

Climate scientist Michael Mann has resigned from the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) after fallout from controversial comments he posted following the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Mann went on a social media spree in the wake of the murder, sarcastically describing the assassination as "white on white violence" and reposting multiple inflammatory remarks about the conservative leader, including one that referred to Kirk as the "head of Trump's Hitler Youth." Despite later attempting to backtrack, Mann has now resigned from his role as Vice Provost for Climate Science, Policy, and Action. "I have reluctantly come to the...

Three Senate Democrats voted in favor of the Republican Continuing Resolution, bucking their party and hoping to avoid a Schumer Shutdown. Those Senators are Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), John Fetterman (PA), and Angus King (ME). In a post on X, Fetterman explained his vote, writing, "I voted AYE to extend ACA tax credits because I support them -- but I won't vote for the chaos of shuttering our government." He added, "My vote was our country over my party." Earlier, Sen. King had expressed concerns over the CR and played coy as to how he would vote. "You'll find out...

A number of Penn State football fans were seen wearing Charlie Kirk’s “FREEDOM” T-shirts at Saturday night’s game against Oregon. Footage and photos of the students in the shirts went viral across social media. Oregon, which was Kirk’s favorite college football team, went on to win the game in a 30-24 thriller. Oregon defensive back Dylan Thieneman pulled in a game-sealing interception in overtime, ensuring Kirk’s favorite team won in front of thousands of supporters wearing his signature shirt

Progressive Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner launched into a rant when confronted by a young Republican activist in a local park in a video that has since gone viral. "Donald Trump is a fascist," Krasner said during the confrontation. When prompted to elaborate on what he meant by the remark, Krasner instead deflected and continued his tirade.

Nate Robinson spotlights fentanyl’s devastation with a stark Philly video.Former NBA guard Nate Robinson recently used his platform to shed light on the devastating impact of fentanyl addiction. On Instagram, Robinson shared a disturbing video from Philadelphia that showed individuals slumped over and staggering in public, their movements eerily resembling “zombies.” The clip was set to Rae Sremmurd’s hit song Black Beatles, the same track once associated with the lighthearted “Mannequin Challenge.” The mix of the upbeat song with such grim scenes made the footage even more jarring. “Man who put this music over this post? Smh. Swaelee the song...

A young Republican activist was blocked from a church in Philadelphia by woke activists who formed a human wall to keep him out, according to video footage. Frank Scales, 22, founder of Surge Philly, shared footage showed a group of activists barring his entry to a town hall with woke Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner last Thursday night at the historic Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Society Hill. “You’re not coming in. You’re not coming in. Simple as that. You’re not coming into our sacred spaces,” a man outside the 19th-century church holding a bullhorn tells Scales, in...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, during an appearance on Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, said the Trump administration is trying to “stifle dissent” following ABC’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show. “Without question, they’re trying to stifle dissent,” Shapiro said after noting that selectively firing people for their viewpoints is “dangerous.” The indefinite suspension of Kimmel’s show came after his Monday night monologue about the 22-year-old man accused of shooting and killing right-wing activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University. On Wednesday afternoon, Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr on a conservative podcast threatened to cancel ABC affiliate broadcast...

The mask continues to slip in Pennsylvania, where Democrat officials have openly mocked, justified, and even celebrated the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk—a reaction that reveals just how deeply entrenched political hatred has become on the American left. Bernville Mayor Shawn Raup-Konsavage ignited national outrage after declaring he was “glad” Kirk is dead, posting the comment publicly alongside a video of the late conservative leader. “This is what MAGA represents,” he wrote, attacking those mourning Kirk’s death and doubling down by saying, “If this represents you, then I don’t want to hear that you are offended that...

The Associated Press has named Matthew James Ruth, 24, as the suspect in the deadly York County ambush of five police officers on Wednesday in North Codorus Township. Five officers were shot. Three were killed and two were critically wounded...