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President-elect Joe Biden’s national security Cabinet may be bare on Day One of his presidency.

The new COVID variant is already spreading in the U.S., and the CDC has warned that it will probably become the dominant version in the country by March.

The DOC says it can only release medical details to emergency contacts, but critics contend it’s not doing enough to notify inmates of the need to update those authorizations.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. used the media to advance the civil rights movement. Black media leaders in Philadelphia and beyond have ideas on how to continue his tradition.

Levine would the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

The city has received more attention in the past two months than ever before, but now the ‘Biden focus’ shifts to Washington.

Here are what experts say about the rise in extremism, and what friends, family members, and bystanders can try to do about it.

Through service, activism, and education, Philadelphians honored Dr. King while reconciling the traumatic events of the past 12 months.

Jamal Johnson began his hunger strike on MLK Day in hopes of connecting the city’s homicide crisis to the historic struggles Black people have overcome.

Kevin Simpson, who lives on one of the blocks visited by the crew, found the effort heartening after years of picking up trash on his own.

Philly City Councilmember Curtis Jones said guns will be taken with no questions asked. The buyback will happen Saturday at two local churches.

The fifth annual MLK Voice 4 Youth contest shifted to an online competition this year, but that didn’t stifle the passion contestants brought to their speeches.

Interfaith leaders, workers, and elected officials spent Martin Luther King Jr. Day advocating for a living wage in Pennsylvania.

Why are fewer people getting welfare in this time of high unemployment, expanding enrollment in other safety net programs, and increasing hunger?

A man who police say made threats against President-elect Joe Biden and other Democratic leaders allegedly had a handgun at his Bucks County camp site.