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The Senate has dodged a U.S. debt disaster by approving legislation to lift the federal limit on new borrowing by nearly a half-trillion dollars.

Leaked documents, dubbed the ‘Pandora Papers,’ show how Delaware and other states are used as a ‘tax haven’ by wealthy world leaders to store assets.

Gun trafficking does not respect state lines, so Govs. Tom Wolf and Phil Murphy have joined an effort to share gun violence data with other states.

A shipping delay resulted in the Indigenous Peoples Day flag-raising ceremony in Philadelphia without the flag.

Authorities say 18 former NBA players have been arrested on charges alleging they pocketed $2.5 million illegally by defrauding the league's health and welfare benefit plan.

Poet, educator, and activist Sonia Sanchez is this year's winner of the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize.

Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys tussled over who was in charge when councilman Henon allegedly took orders from union leader Dougherty.

“In attempting to enlist DOJ for personal, political purposes in an effort to maintain his hold on the White House, Trump grossly abused the power of the presidency.”

Anyone 3 years old and up who gets vaccinated against the flu will receive free admission to the zoo in Norristown.

The inability to hire and retain workers — in part driven by low wages due to low government reimbursement rates — was already a crisis, but now threatens to collapse.

Officials offered different reasons for the lack of participation, including fear of finding too many cases and simply being too overwhelmed by a chaotic start to the year.

Now the FDA will have to decide if there’s enough evidence that the shots are safe and will work for younger children like they do for teens and adults.

Historian Linn Washington remembers the prominent Philadelphia activist and businessman William Still, who challenged laws and customs that discriminated against Black people.

Pennsylvania has 5,600 miles of dead waterways, polluted by the coal mining industry. Ben Kalina’s "A River Reborn" shows how one was revived.

Oct. 7 - Oct. 10: Things to do in Pa., Del., and N.J.