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At a vigil held Tuesday evening, friends, family, and neighbors mourned the death of 14-year-old Tyree Bates after a North Philadelphia shooting this week. As he looked at the blood-stained sidewalk, Bates' younger brother asked a mentor, "Is this like a dream?"

For the second time this week, President Trump contradicted U.S. intelligence officials, suggesting Russia is no longer targeting the U.S. Wednesday, though the White House later tried to walk back his statements. Last week the Director of National Intelligence said Russia is attacking the country's digital infrastructure.

Mayor Kenney may now be in a celebrity feud, but he got one major victory Wednesday when the Pennsylvania's Supreme Court upheld Philly's controversial tax on soda and sweetened beverages.

It happened again, twice: a Philly sports team just lost a trade deal for a major player. Sixers target Kawhi Leonard has gone to the Raptors while the Phillies lost Manny Machado to the Dodgers. Ugh.

Consider your jellyfish fears rationalized: not one but two types of dangerous gelatinous stinging monsters have recently been spotted at the Jersey Shore.

Ten years ago, Philadelphia's courts established the Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Program to help residents save their homes in the midst of the foreclosure epidemic. So far, volunteers have saved 11,000 homes.

If you spent your glory days sadly wandering the streets of Philadelphia because getting tickets to Bruce Springsteen's Broadway show was tougher than the rest, you'll be dancing in the dark when the one-man show comes to Netflix later this year.

For new principals in Philly schools, summer includes a bootcamp on how to hit the ground running. This year, the second week of bootcamp includes an education on keeping LGBT kids safe.

State inspectors just found a dozen Jersey Shore establishments have been rigging their boardwalk games or misleading shoppers. The good news: you're not that bad at the crane game after all.

It's all too easy to fall for the simple "spear phishing" hacking technique used by Russians agents to infiltrate the email accounts of Democratic operatives in 2016. Luckily, with a few tips under your belt, it's just as easy to protect yourself.

The outer signs of aging, from wrinkles to graying hair, are often easy to see. The inner signs are a different story, but researchers just revealed communication between cells may explain why we age.

When we've got nice sunny weather like we will today, it's a shame to sweat indoors at the gym. That's where bodyweight exercises you can do anywhere (like the park) come in handy.

Though it hasn't been done since 1834, Congress should censure President Trump for his deference to Russia on the question of the country's meddling in the U.S. elections, writes the Inquirer Editorial Board.

Pennsylvania's natural gas industry is a major emitter of methane, the second-most prevalent greenhouse gas. Gov. Tom Wolf recently took steps to reduce methane leakage from new industry sources; now he must do the same for existing sources, writes State Rep. Greg Vitali.

Pop music is full of powerful women, but the classical music scene isn't so diverse. As Billy Penn reports, the inaugural Young Women's Composers Camp at Temple hopes to change that and its leaders deserve a round of applause.

It's baseball season and in Haddonfield, N. J., players in the National Beep Baseball Association for the blind are playing their hardest. NJ.com's profile on the local teams making their sports dreams come true is an invigorating read.

A Texas man recently discovered an unmarked graveyard with 95 bodies believed to be those of black forced-labor prisoners from the Jim Crow era. The Washington Post's report on how it was almost lost to history is frankly astonishing.

Curbed is spending this week analyzing how cities around the world work play into their urban landscapes. Their feature on how high-profile parks, including Philly's own Rail Park, affect their surroundings provides an interesting national perspective.