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A federal judge said that the terminations were directed by the Office of Personnel Management and its acting director, Charles Ezell, who lacked the authority to do so.

Sudiksha Konanki is a Virginia resident and a student at the University of Pittsburgh. She was vacationing in Punta Cana with five others when she went missing last week.

Rick Siger, secretary of Pennsylvania's Department of Community and Economic Development, nominated Vijay Kapoor to lead the city of Chester out of bankruptcy.

About 20% of people in Philadelphia are 60 and older, according to local data.

March 13–16: Erika Alexander in Delaware, St. Paddy’s Day celebrations in Philly and EagleMania in South Jersey are among this weekend's event events.

The Center for Dance will quadruple the ballet’s size and include community spaces.

Overbrook students spend recess in a bare-bones concrete yard. Now, they’re working with Trust for Public Land to reimagine the space.

Philadelphia education leaders are raising the alarm as a massive Education Department staffing cut threatens federal programs.

College administrators say any reduction in aid is detrimental to the services they offer. Officials with the governor’s office say they are centering students in funding.

In the weeks since he took office, the Trump administration already has cut the department's staff in half and overhauled much of the department’s work.

Opponents of the project say they will continue to organize until the plan is canceled.

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a series of actions to roll back landmark environmental regulations.

The Philadelphia Department of Public Health has identified at least one local case of measles, unrelated to the recent case in Montgomery County.

Immigration enforcement agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent U.S. resident who is married to an American citizen, in New York on Saturday.

They're pushing for more funding to find effective treatments. Researchers are finally starting to make headway but have a way to go.