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A Washington-based super PAC that has spent a staggering $3.5 million to support physician Ala Stanford for an open Philadelphia congressional seat pulled its television advertising off the air this week with just days left until the election. That is according to media tracking firm AdImpact, which shows that the “pro-science” political action committee, 314 Action Fund, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars a week to air pro-Stanford TV commercials through much of March and April. However, that changed last week. The group has spent virtually nothing on television since May 5, according to AdImpact, and has not reserved any...

The Moms for Liberty Joyful Warriors National Summit starts on June 29 in Philadelphia, but controversy surrounding the event has been brewing for weeks in the City of Brotherly Love. Six Democrat members of the Pennsylvania Senate sent a letter imploring the Museum of the American Revolution to cancel the Moms for Liberty event planned there for June 29 through July 2. “Moms for Liberty, put plainly, is a hate group,” the June 20 letter said. “This is not hyperbole—on June, 6, 2023, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) designated Moms for Liberty a hate group, and specifically, as an...

Posted on Wed, Jan. 19, 2005 U.S.: Bank intended to sway Street Prosecutors say Commerce Bank granted a loan to the then-mayoral candidate's son to gain influence. By Emilie Lounsberry, Marcia Gelbart and Craig R. McCoy Inquirer Staff Writers Commerce Bank officials arranged a loan for then-mayoral candidate John F. Street's son in an attempt to "influence" his father's actions, federal prosecutors said yesterday in a court filing. The New Jersey-based bank gave a $40,000 loan to the mayor's oldest son, Sharif Street, a Center City lawyer, in October 1999 - one month before Street was elected to his first...