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Americans can proudly paint patriotic cookouts with the color of ketchup all summer long. The tomato-based condiment has been a national obsession for 200 years and comes with all-American bona fides of flavor. Credit Philadelphia native Dr. James Mease, a scientist, author, horticulturalist, civic activist, Pennsylvania polymath — a really smart guy — and wartime military surgeon. He also really …

The city of Philadelphia is putting an end to its COVID era remote work policy and requiring all full-time city employees to return to the office five days a week this summer. Mayor Cherelle Parker announced on Monday that employees will begin working in-office again on July 15 to create a “more visible and accessible government.” The decision comes after …

Drexel University in Philadelphia has been placed on lockdown amid a mass of anti-Israel protesters taking over campus. University officials are coordinating with Philadelphia police, and university president John Fry demanded that the encampment “must end” immediately. The protest is one of dozens still raging at campuses across the country, despite being in the final days of the school year. …

A group of at least 75 anti-Israel agitators staged an encampment at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Saturday evening. According to a statement by Drexel University President John Fry, 75 anti-Israel protesters set up an encampment on campus at the Korman Quad on Saturday evening. Fry said the individuals participated in the Philly Palestine Coalition’s Nakba Day march to …

President John Adams moved the federal government from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., on this day in history, May 15, 1800. The move was completed relatively quickly, according to History.com, with important documents brought to Washington by ships. Adams had ordered his cabinet to ensure every office would be operating as usual in Washington, D.C., within one month, noted the same …

A police pursuit through two states that involved two separate shootouts with law enforcement officers and several crashes ended with the death of the woman being sought, authorities said. Wilmington police began their pursuit of the 23-year-old woman shortly before noon Tuesday at a Delaware residence, seeking to arrest her on a warrant stemming from a December 2023 shooting. She …

Hunter Biden’s legal team appeared to seek a delay for his impending June 3 trial date in Delaware, which was set by a federal judge two months ago. The first son was not in attendance Tuesday at the federal courthouse in Delaware’s largest city, Wilmington, but attorney Abbe Lowell as well as Special Counsel David Weiss were. Weiss sat in …

One man has been arrested and police in Philadelphia are still looking for a group of women allegedly involved in attacking an off-duty police officer and stealing his gun. The assault and robbery of the officer’s personal firearm happened around 7 a.m. Sunday in the 2100 block of West Oxford Street, police said. The officer had disarmed his assailant while …

Thomas Jefferson University apologized on Friday after a speaker mispronounced several graduates’ names during its nursing student graduation ceremony, to include the name Thomas, which is also in the university’s name. The speaker mispronounced Molly Elizabeth Camp as “Mollina -Zabeth- Cap” and Thomas as “Tha-mo-may.” The woman corrects herself and says Thomas, but does not even attempt to say his …

The University of Pennsylvania tells Fox News Digital on Friday that 33 people have been arrested this morning during the dismantling of an anti-Israel encampment on its Philadelphia campus. “At approximately 5:30am this morning, Penn Police, with support from the Philadelphia Police Department, took steps to remove the unauthorized encampment on College Green,” a spokesperson said. “Protesters were given multiple …