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Two masked gunmen woke up a house full of Philadelphia college students and forced them into the basement during a home-invasion robbery Friday morning, cops said. Eleven Temple University students were sleeping in the off-campus home on North 15th Street at about 6 a.m. when two men in black hoodies woke them up and “gathered” them in the basement, Philadelphia police said in a statement provided to The Post. The thieves made off with cellphones, debit and credit cards — and the keys to a 2015 Lincoln MKZ, which they stole and used as a getaway car. None of the...

Philadelphia officials voted to impose a last-minute voting rule change that will effectively slow the vote count process. The city’s three-member elections board voted 2-1 in favor of imposing poll book reconciliation – a drawn-out process that aims to prevent double votes, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

The Philadelphia agency that oversees elections said it will delay counting thousands of paper ballots after the polls close Tuesday night because of a lawsuit that accused it of being open to double counting. The Philadelphia City Commissioners voted 2-1 at a special early morning meeting to reinstate a process called “poll book reconciliation,” which is designed to eliminate the duplication of in-person votes and those already cast as mail-in or absentee ballots. The decision will delay in the vote count in one of the nation’s most hotly contested battleground states. The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit filed on Oct....

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Some of Pennsylvania's largest counties were among those working Monday to help voters fix mail-in ballots that have fatal flaws such as incorrect dates or missing signatures on the envelopes used to send them in. Elections officials in Philadelphia and Allegheny, which includes Pittsburgh, announced measures they were taking in response to state Supreme Court orders in recent days that said mail-in ballots may not be counted if they lack accurate handwritten dates on the exterior envelopes. Ahead of Tuesday's midterms, more than a million mail-in and absentee ballots have already been returned in Pennsylvania, with...

Fired up, ready to go! Barack Obama and Joe Biden held a joint rally together in Philadelphia on Saturday. It was the first time the two appeared together at a rally since the stolen 2020 election. Just like in 2020 Joe Biden had a difficult time drawing a crowd, even in far-left Philadelphia. Maybe it’s their planned destruction of America? The Philly arena was less than half full. A curtain was put up to hide the empty half of the arena. And flags were lowered to hide the empty sections behind the stage. video

Home Depot workers in Philadelphia rejected the first store-wide labor union at the world’s largest home improvement retailer Saturday night, a loss for a fledgling movement to organize at major U.S. companies. Workers voted 165 to 51 against forming a union representing 274 employees at the store, WHYY-FM reported. The National Labor Relations Board oversaw the voting. A board spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request from The Associated Press for information about the vote. The defeat for the organizers, who sought to join Home Depot Workers United, could discourage activist workers who have successfully formed the first unions...

Customer Ken Lewandowski Describes The Rise In Crime & Says It's “Scary…Anywhere You Go Now”: A Wawa Is Shut After More Violence In Philadelphia (11/4/22)

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — More Philadelphia schools are locking cell phones in pouches during the day so students can keep their phones with them — but they can’t use them in class.

Yesterday, while Joe Biden was stumping for Democrats who are getting crushed by pro-Trump Republicans in Hallandale, Florida, he either became extremely confused or is the biggest serial liar in Washington DC. While addressing inflation, Biden told the small group, “Inflation is a worldwide problem right now because of a war in Iraq and the impact on oil and what Russia’s doing…excuse me, the war in Ukraine.” He suddenly stopped and appeared to have caught himself in another whopper. Did he catch himself because someone in the audience signaled to him, or is it possible he’s wearing an earpiece, and...

The GayBINGO! event featured "campy entertainment" that was guided by the "antics of the drag-queens-on-skates Bingo-Verifying Divas." ... Josh Shapiro, the Democrat candidate running for governor of Pennsylvania, attended an event called GayBINGO! In November 2009, which featured drag queens skating around and entertaining the crowd, including "children." A photo posted to social media shows then-State Representative Shapiro guffawing on stage next to one of the drag queens as bingo numbers are read. The caption to the photo reads, "Rep. Shapiro sponsored a game of BINGO for the AIDS Fund Philly's monthly GayBINGO! Event." ... According to Philadelphia Gay News,...

With 562 murders, 2021 was a record year for Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love. So far in 2022, the city has seen 441 murders. As of Oct. 30, the Philadelphia Police Department reported 12,923 violent crimes in 2022, including 154 violent assaults in the previous seven days. Philadelphia crime has climbed each year since 2013, when the city had 246 murders. Crimes spills out of the city into surrounding counties. Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano focused on crime during a recent campaign stop in Lancaster County. While traveling the state, Mastriano says he has been hearing a lot of...

Gov. Kathy Hochul is now openly spreading absurd conspiracy theories about crime, claiming Republican “master manipulators” and “data deniers” want you to falsely think red states are safer than blue ones like New York. Of course, she’s the real data-denier “Master manipulators,” she said Sunday, “have this conspiracy going” to “convince people in Democratic states that they’re not as safe.” But “the safer places are the Democratic states.” Her plunge in the polls has her resorting to bald-faced lies: She knows Democratic cities — Philadelphia, Chicago, New Orleans and, yes, New York — drive up state murder rates, as crime...

President Biden and former President Obama will rally together in Philadelphia on Saturday, three days before Election Day. The two will campaign for Senate candidate John Fetterman (D) and gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro (D), as well as “Pennsylvania Democrats down the ballot ahead of the midterm elections,” according to the Democratic National Committee on Monday. The Hill reported last week that Fetterman and Shapiro were expected to get a boost from Biden and Obama on Nov. 5. Biden has visited Philadelphia multiple times this cycle, including on Friday evening when he and Vice President Harris made a rare joint appearance...

Jewish News Syndicate editor-in-chief and National Review contributing writer Jonathan Tobin claimed that journalists who pushed the narrative that Democratic U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman was completely healthy to run for office "lied" in order to ensure that Democrats "maintain control of the Senate." In his column for The Jewish News Syndicate, Tobin declared that these "team blue journalists" "were prepared to cover up or falsify the facts about his health in order to advance his candidacy." [cut] Tobin’s piece, titled, "The painful truth about media bias: Some journalists lie," began with the observation that the debate between Fetterman and...

A Democrat from Pennsylvania insists many Democrats oppose COVID-19 jab mandates https://rumble.com/embed/v1ngx54/?pub=maihl

This year’s midterms have already proven to be among the most unpredictable in recent history — and there could be more surprises in store for the country when results start coming in Nov. 8. From a Republican governor looking to avoid an upset in a ruby-red state, to the chair of the House Democrats’ campaign arm fighting for his political life in a relatively friendly district, numerous races across the country are seen as potential wild cards.

As the 2022 midterm elections approach, all eyes are on Pennsylvania. Ever since former President Donald Trump carried the key battleground state in 2016 (the first Republican presidential nominee to do so in almost three decades), Pennsylvania has represented the nation’s “center of political gravity,” boasting crucial midterm contests that are key to either party’s control of the Senate. As Republicans gain in the polls (thanks in part to skyrocketing inflation and the country’s disastrous economic prospects), sinister games are at play behind the scenes. This is nothing new to the Keystone State. Corruption-riddled Philadelphia has long been ground zero...

Faisal Gill has worked for a host of anti-Israel groups ...far-left views on community policing and crime are so extreme that Democratic representative Karen Bass, who is running to be the city’s mayor, withdrew her endorsement. Faisal Gill, a libertarian Republican-turned-progressive Democrat, is running to become L.A.’s city attorney, a powerful post that will give him the ability to decide what types of minor crimes are prosecuted. "The city attorney is not elected to defend the police," Gill states on his campaign website. He also says he wants to end cash bail, support safe injection sites, and reduce criminal prosecutions....

Officials said Samir Ahmad was employed with the Philadelphia Sheriff's Office beginning in February 2018. Court documents say two of the firearms Samir Ahmad sold on October 13 were traced by law enforcement as being used in a deadly ambush shooting after a football scrimmage at Roxborough High School two weeks earlier. A deputy with the Philadelphia Sheriff's Office has been arrested and charged with trafficking and selling guns, according to the United States Attorney's office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Samir Ahmad, 29, of Philadelphia, was taken into custody on October 19 by federal agents. Court documents say...

Two Wawa stores in Philadelphia closed for good over the weekend, while other locations are shortening hours amid an uptick in crime. “We are very sorry we can’t be there for our friends and neighbors at these two locations, but we continue to serve the community from our other nearby stores and our commitment to the greater region remains strong,” Wawa said in a statement to FOX 29, regarding the locations at 12th and Market and 19th and Market. “Philadelphia is our hometown and that’s something that will never change.” Locations in Feasterville, a Philadelphia suburb, will be closed between...