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10 years ago this month, when the Chabad of Poway synagogue shooter was nine years old, Barack Obama's DHS authored a dire report about growing extremist violence in America.

Housing costs are growing for low-income renters but not higher-income renters and homeowners, worsening income inequality in the Philadelphia region and nationally.

Enrollment has been falling at many Pennsylvania colleges and universities for nearly decade, since peak enrollment numbers in 2010.

By picking Pennsylvania for his first campaign speech of the presidential race, Joe Biden is signaling he hopes to own what may be the 2020 election's toughest battleground.

The controversial Netflix series graphically depicts a suicide. Researchers wondered how much harm does the second season might do.

Interviews with voters in Kenney’s old neighborhood show a mix of opinions about him, but little support for his Democratic rivals.

Monday is the final day of the City Nature Challenge. Philly is competing with 100 other world cities to find and record the greatest number of living things.

The department has balked at the panel's plans to allow the committee's counsels from both sides to question Barr

WHYY and Philly.com columnist and commentator Solomon Jones will host “Wake Up With WURD” starting May 6.

The Pittsburgh synagogue that six months ago was the site of the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history held a vigil and offered its sympathy after another deadly shooting

The nuclear industry argues the design of the power market is flawed.

President Xi Jinping called for more countries to join China's sprawling infrastructure-building initiative.

State legislatures have introduced at least 329 climate change bills this year that address greenhouse gas emissions.

The brainchild of two Stanford University design students, Juul launched in 2015 and quickly leapfrogged over its competitors.

There was no known threat after a man was detained in the shooting at the Chabad of Poway, but authorities boosted patrols at places of worship as a precaution.