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New Jersey officials are urging all visitors entering the state as well as returning residents to self-quarantine for 14 days.

The head of the United Nations is calling on countries to end what he calls a war on nature and instead embrace a future without carbon pollution triggering global warming.

U.S. health officials say staying home for the upcoming winter holidays is the best way to stay safe and protect others.

Kensington Creative and Performing Arts High School students have started a petition demanding an alternate schedule, arguing that long hours in front of screens is unhealthy.

Gambling executives, analysts and lawmakers agree that the lure of new tax revenue could prove irresistible to cash-strapped state governments facing large COVID-19 deficits.

The classic Dostoevsky novel “Notes from Underground” is retold online as a Black man emerging from decades of self-isolation.

When the school made its announcement, City Councilmember Helen Gym and others voiced hope that other universities with large landholdings would pony up.

In a virtual town hall, North Philly Latinos affected by gun violence called on fellow community members to join Black residents in fighting gun violence plaguing the city.

Most of the information in the court order is redacted, including the identity of the people whom prosecutors are investigating and whom the proposed pardon might be for.

City Council is close to an agreement on a bill that would create a new tax on residential construction and push back a change to the city’s controversial development subsidy.

Gov. Wolf announced the studies last year after pressure from families of cancer patients in Washington County.

Some panel members and other experts had also grown concerned by comments from Trump administration officials that suggested differing vaccine priorities.

Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are surging, making mitigation efforts like wearing masks and not gathering in small spaces more important than ever.

They maintain that Pennsylvania’s expansive vote-by-mail law is unconstitutional because it required a constitutional amendment to authorize its provisions.

The daily case count reported Tuesday was the highest of the pandemic and hospitalizations have risen more than 150 percent in the last month.