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Police officers are “quitting or retiring faster than they can be replaced” in big cities across the country — a trend that can, in part, be pegged to radical Democrats’ calls to “Defund the Police,” the Associated Press reported on Monday.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said Wednesday that hypocrisy in Democrat policies and proposals on guns and crime demonstrates that the left is not interested in stopping crimes committed with guns, but in control and power.

A viral video critics say depicts an incident of racial bias at Sesame Place, Philadelphia, over the weekend has sparked a response with those held responsible to be re-educated and re-trained to address implied racism in their actions.

An illegal alien is accused of murdering a 76-year-old man outside his home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as well as two stabbings in Boston, Massachusetts. 

A Philadelphia Police Department forensic artist recently created a portrait of James Lambert, 73, who was brutally beaten to death by a group of adolescents with a traffic cone.

Ten people were shot, two of them fatally, on Monday alone in Mayor Jim Kenney’s (D) Philadelphia. 

Two brothers, ages 14 and 10 years old, suspected of being involved in the fatal beating of an elderly man in Philadelphia, turned themselves in on Monday, according to police.

A brother and sister are making a timely and somewhat historic entry into the baby formula market by launching a plant in Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney (D) reacted to gun violence in his city by suggesting Tuesday morning that only police should have guns.

Two police officers were shot and hospitalised on Monday evening during a Fourth of July fireworks show in Philadelphia, sparking a stampede.

Police are investigating a woman set on fire June 16 in Philadelphia’s Kensington area, and a report identified her as 36-year-old Alyssa Morales.

Thousands of pro-abortion protesters gathered outside Philadelphia’s City Hall on Friday night after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. 

A number of Democrat-run cities in the United States have seen violent crime rates jump in 2022 compared to last year, a report has found. 

Report: Justifiable Homicides Rise in Philadelphia as Concealed Carry Surges

Concealed carry is skyrocketing among Philadelphia women as the city’s crime wave continues to surge.

At least 11 people were injured and three killed during a late Saturday night shootout in downtown Philadelphia.

Nine separate shootings occurred in Democrat-run Philadelphia Friday into Saturday afternoon and one of the shootings left a pregnant woman dead.

Gunfire killed three people and wounded another 11 late Saturday night in Philadelphia’s most popular downtown entertainment district, authorities said.

The School District of Philadelphia encouraged its teachers to attend a Trans Wellness Conference in which they explored topics such as “BDSM,” “masturbation sleeves,” “kink,” “banging beyond binaries,” and “trans sex.”

Philadelphia is ditching its indoor mask mandate less than a week after bringing it back, according to local officials.

Several Philadelphia businesses have sued to overturn the city’s reimposed indoor mask mandate, which took effect Monday. 

A fleet of Hyundai cars was apparently stolen in Philadelphia between Monday night and early Tuesday with the keys inside, law enforcement said. 

An alleged intruder impersonating a police officer on Sunday was shot dead by a Philadelphia homeowner. 

Philadelphia residents and visitors must now wear a mask in indoor public spaces, as Monday, April 18, marks the first day of the return of the rule.

A church in Lynchburg, Virginia, is reaching out to community members struggling with high prices at the gas pump.

Philadelphia police are searching for four suspects who officials say shot a highly regarded community member during a carjacking Sunday.  

A Philadelphia man remains on the loose after prosecutors say he gunned down his ex-girlfriend and her unborn child at a gas station Friday.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is officially bringing back its indoor mask requirement less than two months after dropping it. The move makes it  one of the first big cities to bring back restrictions as Americans attempt to return to a state of pre-pandemic normalcy over two years after the start of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

On Monday’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said that he can see, over the next few weeks, “as you see local cases go up, public health measures get put into place and

The City of Philadelphia could reinstitute its indoor mask mandate, over one month after the Health Department moved the city into the “All Clear COVID Response Level.”

Concealed carry permit applications are up 600 percent in Philadelphia as law-abiding residents respond to violent crime by arming themselves.

A customer shot and killed an alleged robber in a Philadelphia corner store Wednesday around 12:30 p.m.

A 101-year-old man who hails from West Virginia recently received his high school diploma more than 80 years after being forced to drop out when his family moved for “financial reasons.”

Democrats, in the latest attempt to blame Republicans and rile up the base before the midterms, issued a report saying that states that voted for former President Trump have a more significant crime wave than those that voted for President Biden.

Carjackings in Democrat-controlled New York City rose 286 percent from 2019-2021 according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB).

A bullet went through a window at the Philadelphia Police Internal Affairs building on Friday night.