The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — A Super Bowl commercial purports to take an amusing look at a lightning survivor’s electricity phobia, but some lightning-safety experts aren’t exactly getting a charge out of it. In the ad, a man identifying himself as someone who was s…

PHILADELPHIA — The Delaware County District Attorney’s Office announced plans to investigate allegations that volunteer firefighters from the Briarcliffe Fire Company used racial slurs and disparaged Black residents in a late-January conversation follo…

PHILADELPHIA — After months of pursuit, James Harden is finally a member of the 76ers. The Sixers and Nets completed a trade Thursday that swapped two disgruntled stars, sending Ben Simmons, Seth Curry, Andre Drummond and two first-round draft picks to…

PHILADELPHIA — The Ben Simmons Saga is finally over. On Thursday, the 76ers parted ways with the disgruntled All-Star who refused to play in exchange for the player that Sixers president of basketball operations Daryl Morey was in part hired to deliver…

PHILADELPHIA — The Central Bucks School Board in Pennsylvania scrapped a planned ninth-grade trip to Washington to visit the Holocaust Museum and other sites after a board member objected to city vaccine requirements that she said could exclude some st…

PHILADELPHIA — The last weekend in January, Krista Xavier did something she described as “tremendously stupid.” She went to an indoor performance at the Met Philadelphia. Xavier, 30, has fibromyalgia and is immunocompromised. She has received two vacci…

There’s a school of thought that says James Harden is house money. Whatever boost the Sixers would net from him would be more than the boost that Ben Simmons is giving them. As long as they do not subtract anything else from their rotation, what’s the …

Is the party over? Has this winter’s sell-off, set off by inflation and rising interest rates, finally slowed the bull market that has pumped up private-company valuations, initial public offerings (IPOs), and stock prices since the late 2000s? The S&P…

Here in Philly, the 76ers’ game against the NBA-best Phoenix Suns might have been the furthest thing from fans’ minds. A lot of the focus was on Thursday’s NBA trade deadline and whether the Sixers will send Ben Simmons to the Brooklyn Nets for James H…

PHILADELPHIA — Given the dizzying array of reports attempting to qualify the likelihood of a James Harden trade before Thursday’s deadline, any Sixers fan could be forgiven for wondering if anything is real or if we’re all just living in a fun room in …