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Israeli soldiers killed 58 Palestinians and wounded more than 2,700 that were among the 35,000 demonstrating at the edges of Gaza as the U.S. Embassy opened in Jerusalem Monday. Meanwhile, first daughter Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner led a celebration to open the embassy and President Trump declared it a "great day" for Israel.

Let the gaming begin: sports betting is now legal in the U.S. Yesterday, the Supreme Court overturned a federal law which had banned it outside of Nevada.

Edward Archer, the man convicted of shooting Philadelphia Police Officer Jesse Hartnett in an ISIS-inspired attack in 2016, was sentenced to decades in prison Monday.

Mayor Jim Kenney's $500 million public works initiative to fix up rec centers, libraries, and playgrounds is now threatened as Kenney and labor leader John Dougherty clash with City Council over minority representation in the construction unions.

In 2010, Florida high school teacher Joel Moody was stripped of his teaching license for sending sexually-charged messages to a student. The chairman of the board of Drum Corps International, now embroiled in a sexual misconduct scandal involving a famed Allentown drum corps, hired him to work with teens anyway.

When 17-year-old Sandrea Williams was killed Friday as two shooters opened fire on a group of teens in West Philadelphia, Homicide Capt. Jack Ryan said it was "almost like a terror attack." Police are still investigating the shooting.

Sometimes moving isn't all that bad. While relocating a few weeks ago, a Philadelphia man discovered an interview he recorded with Muhammad Ali back when he was called Cassius Clay — one that had never been heard in the U.S.

These days any Philadelphian can finish the phrase, "In West Philadelphia, born and raised." But in a new video, Will Smith says he only became the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air after getting into tax trouble. Oops.

A Norristown man says that he's finally found an effective (if odd) way to banish the mischievous squirrels plaguing his clients for good. Don't worry, his methods are kill-free.

Philip Duffy, an Irishman linked to a stretch of Malvern land where 57 Irish immigrants were buried in a mass grave in 1832, will no longer be hidden like the stories he left untold. He's about to get a tombstone for the first time. 

Gene Terruso, former artistic director of Pottstown's Steel River Playhouse, thought he was ending a year as a Fulbright scholar when he got an offer he couldn't refuse. Now he's running an English-speaking theater in the Czech Republic.

Villanova men's basketball coach Jay Wright is having an eventful off-season. When he met Pope Francis last month, he gifted the pontiff a basketball — and the Pope asked if he wanted him to sign it. 

Jim Piazza, whose son Tim Piazza died in a hazing incident at a Penn State fraternity, isn't sure banning fraternities would solve Greek life's problems. Penn educator Jonathan Zimmerman, on the other hand, thinks in the #MeToo era women should boycott frats to press for change.

If new Medicaid requirements become law, health care activist Ruth Ann Davidson writes, her bipolar son will be one paperwork error away from losing the coverage and medication he needs.

The Parker-Spruce Hotel has been called "seedy" and "sketchy," but, as you can see from Curbed Philly's tour inside, the newly renovated Center City building is trying to overcome its sordid past.

If you've ever missed the clickety-clack of a nice typerwriter under your fingers, you might want to check out Philly Typewriter. Technical.ly Philly's quick interview with the man behind the once-again-trendy business may make you nostalgic.

A Philly burlesque dancer was so inspired by the empowering images of Black Panther that she produced an all-black burlesque show inspired by the groundbreaking film. Don't miss WHYY's report on the creative collaboration.

Did you see footage of the glow-in-the-dark waves crashing on San Diego beaches last week? That "wow" moment came courtesy of bioluminescence, a phenomenon one company wants to apply to trees to create — what else — natural street lights, Fast Company reports. What would Philly look like with glowing trees…?

In other cool science news, apparently a NASA probe found water vapor on Jupiter's moon Europa, making it a prime candidate for alien life, reports the Guardian. Cue the X-Files theme.