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Late-night hosts discuss the discovery of classified documents in one of Biden’s offices and McCarthy’s weak speakership

WASHINGTON — Republicans are escalating their calls for swift federal action after the Justice Department announced that classified documents were found at the University of Pennsylvania office of President Joe Biden, arguing he should receive the same treatment as Donald Trump.

From Skinner v. Hadlock, decided Thursday by Judge Michael Baylson (E.D. Pa.): Skinner alleges that Hadlock falsely accused him of raping her in September 2018 while Hadlock was a graduate student in the University of Pennsylvania's Masters of Social Work program. Skinner, who was the program counselor at a housing-for-the-homeless…

Some conservatives would like to retire affirmative action because they claim it’s accomplished everything it set out to do. But it hasn’t. Not even close.

PHILADELPHIA — A group of student protesters at the University of Pennsylvania ended a nearly six-week encampment on the College Green this weekend after they stormed Franklin Field during halftime of the Penn-Yale football game.

PHILADELPHIA — Justin McDaniel, a professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania, teaches a popular course called "Gods, Ghosts and Monsters," a comparative religion course about death and the afterlife. He's long been fascinated with ghost stories — and why they fascinate us.

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The day after President Joe Biden decided to pardon marijuana smokers, the 79-year-old walked into a bookstore on the University of Pennsylvania campus with his granddaughter. One voice in the crowd outside shouted out: “Yo Joe, legalize that weed.”

PHILADELPHIA — The City of Philadelphia issued an apology Thursday for the unethical experiments a University of Pennsylvania faculty member of 50 years performed on Holmesburg Prison inmates between the 1950s and 1970s.