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MIAMI — In the two years since his family’s condominium was destroyed in the collapse of Champlain Towers South, Gabe Nir has moved 10 times. He has been unable to find a new home, and, worse, he cannot find peace. Nir, 27, was one of only four people living in the Surfside condo who escaped before their section of the building fell. Three others were rescued from the rubble. When the 12-story tower came down at 1:22 a.m. on June 24, 2021, likely as a result of 40-year-old design and construction flaws, 98 people ranging in age from 2 to 92 died. Nir, his mother and his sister ran for their li......

PHILADELPHIA — A SEPTA transit police officer was hospitalized in critical but stable condition after gun battle erupted Wednesday evening between police and a man suspected of shooting two women in the city's Frankford section. The male suspect was later found dead inside an apartment building where he had barricaded himself and was firing out a window at officers, police said after the situation was declared under control. Around 7 p.m., officers responded to the sound of gunshots near the Arrott Transportation Center and found two women with gunshot wounds at Arrott and Griscom Streets, pol......

For the last two weeks, Eric Garner’s mother sat at her desk at a Staten Island office, continuing to work while listening to NYPD cops testify in graphic detail about her son’s killing in a police chokehold. Gwen Carr, who became a national figure in the movement for police reform following Garner’s death on July 17, 2014, multitasked during the landmark judicial proceeding she sought for years. One moment she was outraged by a cop’s testimony. The next, she had to step away and collect herself when a video of her son’s death was played yet again. The next, she managed payroll. “I have to lis......