Bad went to worse in 2020 with the pandemic and worse went to terrible with the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. We all knew, and then we all saw, that the Republicans were going to get a new justice...
The Nicetown-Tioga area of north Philadelphia erupted in gunfire in the past hour and the shooting is still ongoing.
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There are not a lot of details available at this time. This was published at 2:56 p.m. Pacific in the Washington Post:
Dramatic...
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April 20, 1999....
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Motives for this kind of...
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