Build a fairer, more creative New York
As Zohran Mamdani prepares to take the reins at City Hall, no promise rings more loudly than his analysis of how affordability threatens to sap the vitality that has defined…
A look back at Philly-area businesses that didn’t survive 2025
Last year, you may have celebrated Christmas or New Year’s with a meal at an Iron Hill Brewery. At the time, your holiday preparations may have included trips to Joann…
Only hope for infant with rare new genetic disease was risky transplant at NYC hospital
When little Dhruvan Gopi was taken by his parents to a New Jersey urgent care center, they never imagined he was suffering acute liver failure at just 7 weeks old.…
Injuries reported after explosion at nursing home in Bucks County
Multiple injuries were reported after an explosion rocked a nursing home Tuesday afternoon in Bristol Township in Bucks County, authorities said. Shortly after 2 p.m., firefighters and police responded to…
Heritage staffers walk out amid latest strife at MAGA institution
More than a dozen employees of the Heritage Foundation walked away from their jobs over the weekend as the right-wing think tank struggles with allegations of antisemitism and as the…
Drexel’s Terrence Butler died two years ago. The reasons for his passing still elude everyone who loved him.
BRANDYWINE, Md. — No one knows exactly when Terrence Butler began keeping a journal, but there is a best guess. The first and only time someone noticed that he was…
Brooklyn man’s retrial for murder dismissed after he spent 11 years in prison
A Brooklyn man who served 11 years in jail for a murder he did not commit received an early Christmas gift on Friday — his freedom. Derrick Ulett, 38, was…
Will the Philadelphia Police Department ever be free of scandal? | Editorial
By most accounts, the Philadelphia Police Department has had a good year. Crime is down, a majority of residents feel safer and many give Commissioner Kevin J. Bethel high marks.…
Letters to the Editor | Dec. 19, 2025
Sad and sickening I’m still having a hard time wrapping my head around Donald Trump’s vile comments about Rob Reiner’s death. To watch anyone, least of all the president of…
City Council bill would ban housing from former Hahnemann University Hospital area
Philadelphia Councilmember Jeffery “Jay” Young introduced legislation at the last City Council meeting of 2025 that would ban residential development from the area that once housed Hahnemann University Hospital. The…