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Top GOP lawmakers submitted an emergency request to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, asking the justices to block Pennsylvania's new congressional map. National and state Republicans are preparing a separate challenge to the map, and Common Cause and the NAACP might issue their own on civil rights grounds.

Camden County has joined in the slew of suits against drug manufacturers and retailers who they say share responsibility for the opioid epidemic. But this suit is unique in one important way.

Gov. Phil Murphy set aside $7.5 million in funding for family-planning and women's health in New Jersey Wednesday that his predecessor, Chris Christie, had once opposed.

Pennsylvania's gubernatorial candidates are about to be in Jeopardy! — kind of. Host Alex Trebek is set to moderate an upcoming debate.

The first and only African American judge in Bucks County, Clyde W. Waite, 73, was injured in his home Monday night. He first called the incident an attack, and later said his injuries may have been the result of a hallucination.

The Rev. Billy Graham, 99, the world's best-known Protestant evangelist, died Wednesday. His visits to Philadelphia for "mass crusades" in 1961 and 1992 drew hundreds of thousands.

The Phillies open their spring training schedule today with an exhibition against the University of Tampa. Don't miss the action: here's how to watch the spring training games.

Uber is set to introduce a new "Express Pool" service to Philadelphia that will remind you of a tried and true transit tradition: the bus.

U.S. women are racking up medals at the Olympics, winning gold over Canada in the hockey final, earning silver in bobsledding, bronze for speedskating, and gold for cross-country. Here's today's Olympics TV schedule.

The Hard Rock Hotel and Ocean Resort casinos are expected to open in Atlantic City this summer, but they may not be the only new games in town. Showboat hotel owner Bart Blatstein just took a possible first step toward turning it back into a casino.

Spoiler alert ahead for fans of The Walking Dead — seriously, this is your last chance to stop reading — Cherry Hill native Lauren Cohan may be leaving the show.

Black Panther set opening weekend records all over the world, and Philadelphians are loving it, too. Local shops selling African clothing have been swamped with fans dressing for the film.

Despite what internet hoaxes may say (again), Sylvester Stallone is not dead. In fact, he said he feels incredibly healthy "for a dead guy."

Keep the coffee and kegs coming: Philly's co-working boom isn't slowing down any time soon. Five new companies want to add to the city's 26 shared offices.

Art conservators at the Penn Museum have a staggering task ahead of them: take apart, reassemble, and clean hundreds of ancient artifacts in time for a new exhibit. No big deal.

Philadelphia Theatre Company returns from a year-long hiatus this fall, with one game-changing update: it's committed to producing one play off the legendary Kilroys List each year.

Alshon Jeffery, one of the Eagles' biggest Super Bowl LII heroes, has undergone surgery that could sideline him through the preseason.

Following the death of a long-time resident at the Blossom Philadelphia home for intellectually disabled individuals, columnist Ronnie Polaneczky writes that law enforcement must hold higher-ups at the facility accountable.

All the partisan fighting over the Pennsylvania congressional map makes it clear the state needs an independent commission to draw legislative districts, writes the Inquirer Editorial Board.

Tuesday would have been the 117th birthday of Louis Kahn, the famed architect who transformed Philadelphia and led an architectural movement in its name. To celebrate, Curbed Philly put together a smashing primer to his work, including an illustrated guide to his most famous buildings and a look at the projects that were never built.

This look at a week in the life of a local personal trainer over at Philadelphia Magazine may inspire you or turn you green with envy. Either way, it's an interesting read.

Food for thought as 2018 election campaigns begin: Marie Claire has dug into how women are risking professional fallout to become activists outside the workplace.

The teens working to fight gun violence after surviving the Parkland, Florida mass shooting are simultaneously struggling with their trauma, too. The Washington Post's report on how they're helping each other handle the stress is both touching and devastating to read.

Buzzfeed News just released a damning investigation into how Britain's homeless people are being trapped into modern slavery, and how the 2015 act meant to protect them is failing.