“Alright, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.” Fading movie star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) utters those words in the final scene of “Sunset Boulevard,” Billy Wilder’s 1950 film noir that exposes the dark reality that lies behind Hollywood’s glamorous image. Desmond mistakes the newsreel cameras that will record her arrest for those of a […]

In a 2018 photograph taken by the Philadelphia artist Andrea Walls, a ghost floats toward the viewer. Draped in a white shroud and framed by power lines and splintered tree branches, the faceless figure is following train tracks that fall off the edge of the page. Walls’ eerie portrait, called “Railroaded,” appears in the final […]

For years, climate scientists have cautioned that the warming world could create conditions where animals, insects and other creatures would establish themselves in places they had not been found before—and bring diseases harmful to humans with them. That scenario is now playing out in Africa, where a mosquito native to Asia has found a new […]

Speaking near the scene of a fire earlier this year that displaced dozens of Sunset Park residents, public officials gathered Monday to call attention to the deadly risks of lithium-ion batteries used in e-bikes and urge passage of a federal bill that would set a single national safety standard. “You deserve to trust your bike, […]

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The Iowa delegation for the Democratic National Convention unanimously endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday to become the 2024 presidential nominee. The Iowa’s DNC delegates made the decision during a virtual meeting Monday evening in the aftermath of President Joe Biden’s Sunday announcement that he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race. Biden […]

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A swarm of Democratic legislative leaders, governors ­— including some thought to harbor presidential ambitions of their own — and influential unions as well as key outside groups endorsed her within 24 hours of Biden’s unscheduled Sunday afternoon announcement, while no serious challenger emerged.

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Since Biden’s announcement he would bow out of the race, a bevy of Pennsylvania elected officials, including Gov. Josh Shapiro, U.S. Sens. Bob Casey and John Fetterman, and the state’s entire Democratic congressional caucus have endorsed Harris.

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