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Here’s our latest list of restaurants, large performance venues, universities, and gyms in the Philly region where you need to show proof of vaccination.

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Sixers star Joel Embiid sent out four tweets Wednesday aimed at dispelling a reported rift with teammate Ben Simmons, and challenging Philly fans to be better. His rant came one day after The Inquirer’s Keith Pompey reported that Simmons no longer wants to be a Sixer. Meanwhile, columnist David Murphy takes Simmons to task for passing up an opportunity to grow with the Sixers. “Nobody who watched Ben Simmons play basketball this postseason should be surprised that he has decided to take the easy way out,” Murphy writes.

Leaders of the union representing the guards at the George W. Hill Correctional Facility say chronic understaffing at the Delaware County jail has led to two guards being seriously injured in assaults by inmates and now has some talking about a strike.

Hundreds gathered for a candlelight vigil on a Berkeley Township beach to mourn a Jersey Shore lifeguard who was killed by a lightning strike.

The Pennsylvania Senate for the first time is giving the public online access to the way the chamber and its elected members spend millions in taxpayer money on themselves. However, finding the information isn’t exactly a one-click kinda thing.

Former President Donald Trump endorsed Sean Parnell in Pennsylvania’s critical U.S. Senate race Wednesday, giving the Army veteran a coveted prize in the competitive 2022 Republican primary.

COVID-19 cases are expected to surge this fall. Here’s why school masking may help.

Philadelphia has already paid back more than $81 million in wage taxes to suburban residents who worked from home last year instead of commuting to the city — and officials are still processing refund applications.

Eileen Murphy, vice president of government affairs at New Jersey Audubon, wants the state to fix its wind project she claims is killing scores of birds. She writes that if the state designs its offshore projects properly, and works to reduce its fossil fuel emissions, it will help fix both problems.

Calling people “the unvaccinated” could be a deadly shift in language, writes the Angry Grammarian. That subtle shift from adjective to noun — what nerds call nominalization — affects how vaccinated people view the unvaccinated, and how the unvaccinated view themselves.

Billy Penn looks at the burnout crisis inside the radio room of the Philadelphia Police Department, which faces near-daily dispatch staff shortages.

GQ tells the untold story of IRAK, downtown New York’s most legendary graffiti crew. Since their late-’90s heyday, some members became famous. Some died. And one, Kunle Martins, endured years of struggle—homelessness, addiction, jail time—to finally get the acclaim he always deserved.

The New York Times writes about Terry Albury, an idealistic FBI agent who grew so disillusioned by the war on terror that he was willing to leak classified documents — and go to prison for doing it.