The presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and current Vice President Kamala Harris happens Tuesday at 9 p.m., but the hefty security measures and road closures around the National Constitution Center that will come with it have already begun. And things will get worse before they get better Wednesday morning.

Here’s what you should know about ahead of debate night, although changes and updates may come as security measures evolve. Continue reading… 

BP’s Meir Rinde went to Kensington to see how the neighborhood has fared since the city began a five-part process to address the homelessness and drug use that has bedeviled it. The city has made efforts to clean the streets, and a series of police sweeps over the last few months appear to have reduced the number of homeless drug users living there, but several months into the city’s neighborhood improvement effort, locals say the problems associated with its open-air drug market remain largely unaddressed. Continue reading…

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• Pa.’s largest immigrant detention center is “riddled with human rights violations” and “Inhumane conditions,” according to a report by Temple law students and Juntos, a Philadelphia-based immigrant advocacy organization. [WHYY]