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Phillies extend wild-card lead to one game with win over Nationals in Game 1 of doubleheader

WASHINGTON — Need an elixir for a losing streak? How about something potent to stave off a late-season collapse?

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A medical mystery: Why two Philly-area cousins, just miles apart, got rare brain cancers

PHILADELPHIA -- Lily Walker, 17, was in eighth grade when she suddenly lost weight and suffered headaches so severe she’d throw up. Her mom thought it was stress, or maybe a virus. After the double vision set in, a doctor told the family to head to an emergency room.

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Editorial: The shooting at Roxborough High and the absurd state law that limits local gun safety measures

It should come as no surprise that Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney's executive order banning guns and other deadly weapons at city recreation centers and playgrounds did nothing to prevent a 14-year-old boy from getting murdered Tuesday after a football scrimmage outside Roxborough High School.

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Pediatric brain cancer is rare. A doctor explains why some kids are more vulnerable than others.

The odds that a doctor will diagnose your child with pediatric cancer are slim, and the chances of a brain cancer diagnosis are even smaller.

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How Jalen Hurts’ deeper understanding of the Eagles offense has earned him trust

Shane Steichen often can find himself at the mercy of Jalen Hurts’ preparation.

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Live microphone catches Doc Rivers’ frank conversation with James Harden at Sixers camp

CHARLESTON, S.C. — At one point during Thursday’s televised practice at The Citadel, 76ers coach Doc Rivers told his team, “Our spirit is [B.S.]!”

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David Murphy: Are the Phillies really going to blow it?

Where are all the people who wanted to know why nobody was going to Phillies games this summer?

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Phillies swept in season series with Cubs; tied with Brewers for final wild-card spot

CHICAGO — The Phillies’ Nick Maton stepped up to the plate with two outs in the second inning on Thursday. Jean Segura was on first base. Maton took one pitch, and then another, and then one more, which he tried to bunt, but pulled his bat back.

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Phillies and Nationals move up doubleheader to Friday as storm moves up East Coast

CHICAGO — The Phillies-Nationals doubleheader scheduled for Saturday has been moved up to Friday with rain expected to hit Washington as a byproduct of Hurricane Ian’s path up the East Coast.

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Pennsylvania counties can help voters fix problems with their mail ballots, state court rules

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania counties can notify voters who submit mail ballots with mistakes such as missing dates or signatures and help those voters resolve the issues, a state judge ruled Thursday.

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Santigold ‘sad and proud’ to cancel ‘The Holified Tour’

PHILADELPHIA — Santigold planned to stop at the Franklin Music Hall in October for her Holified Tour. But the Philly-born artist, whose album "Spirituals" came out Sept. 9, has canceled the tour.

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‘It’s surreal.’ After Roxborough shootings, officials, community leaders plead for an end to gun violence

PHILADELPHIA — The five shooters had been waiting in an SUV near Roxborough High School for several minutes.

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Philly school shooting has educators asking: If a football scrimmage isn’t safe, what is?

PHILADELPHIA — As soon as Clarice Brazas heard Tuesday about the shooting by five apparent juveniles at Roxborough High that left four students wounded and one dead, the Philadelphia teacher thought: How will I explain this to my students?

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Marcus Hayes: The Roxborough school shooting should provoke change in gun culture. It won't

What police seem to know 24 hours after America's latest firearms outrage is that five shooters and the driver of their SUV targeted at least one of the teenage Roxborough High School football players. One of the players, a 14-year-old named Nicholas Elizalde, of Havertown, died, the 23rd kid killed…

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Mike Sielski: The Sixers hated playing against P.J. Tucker. That’s why they signed him.

PHILADELPHIA — You know P.J. Tucker. If you’ve played any basketball in your life, you’ve played against P.J. Tucker, and you likely hated it. Or you’ve played with P.J. Tucker, and you loved it. P.J. Tucker is 37, which makes him an old man by NBA standards, and more to…

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For Rowan University president, the protests in Iran are personal

What wells inside him as he watches riot police move against protesters in Iran, said Ali Houshmand, is anger.

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Phillies fall to the Cubs again after Aaron Nola’s woeful fifth inning

CHICAGO — In the top of the third inning on Wednesday night, Kyle Schwarber took off from second base to third base, setting himself up to score on a sacrifice fly. He jokingly tipped his cap to the dugout, and touched home plate when Bryce Harper popped up to left…

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‘I pray for change’: Jalen Hurts and the Eagles offer sympathy for teenagers involved in Roxborough shooting

PHILADELPHIA — Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts was at “a loss of words” upon hearing about the shooting at Roxborough High School on Tuesday, which left four teenagers wounded and one 14-year-old boy dead. The shooting occurred at the conclusion of a football scrimmage involving three local high schools.

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As campaign struggles, Doug Mastriano plans ‘40 days of fasting and prayer’

PHILADELPHIA — It was billed as a blockbuster, but ended up a flop. If Doug Mastriano’s “big rally” last weekend were a movie, its Rotten Tomatoes score would be in the single digits.

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James Harden looks trim and ready. Can he be the Harden of old?

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Can James Harden get back to being his old self?

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Philadelphia was wasting tons of produce. Then a scrappy startup stepped in

A lot happens under the soaring ceiling of the Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market, a cathedral of fruits and vegetables. Roughly $1.5 billion’s worth of produce passes through this 550,000-square-foot cooler in a year, from everyday items like avocados and oranges to relative rarities like green almonds and quenepas. Trucks start…

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The two very different ways John Fetterman answered GOP attacks over crime and drugs

PHILADELPHIA — When John Fetterman came to Philadelphia last weekend, he tried to answer one of the central attacks coming from Republicans: that he’s soft on crime.

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Doug Mastriano said in 2019 that women who violate an abortion ban should be charged with murder

PHILADELPHIA — Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, suggested in 2019 that women who violate an abortion ban he proposed should be charged with murder, a position considered far outside the political mainstream.

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David Murphy: Four Sixers who have a lot to prove in training camp and not much time to do it

PHILADELPHIA — A familiar but forgotten face provided one of the more thought-provoking moments to come out of the Sixers’ annual pre-training camp media day on Monday. Somebody asked Shake Milton whether he had a good feel for what his role was going to be this season, and the fifth-year…

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Delaware owns a small chunk of South Jersey

SOUTH JERSEY, or (maybe?) DELAWARE — In Salem County, New Jersey, about seven miles south of the Delaware Memorial Bridge, a small chunk of land abuts the Delaware River.

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