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The lines are drawn in the fight over President Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court and the conflict is adding drama to Congressional races in our region this fall.

The butterfly pavilion at the Insectarium in Northeast Philadelphia will host a concert of bug music.

NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller sits down for his weekly conversation with Gallup’s Frank Newport to talk about trends in U.S. opinion.

What do you get when you combine an ice cream entrepreneur trained in Delaware with a classic New Jersey breakfast meat? A viral hit that's getting global attention.

Some of the show's performances are so extreme (and look so dangerous), you wonder how anyone ever learned to do this stuff.

The July 3 rupture raised a lot of questions for Philadelphians. Chief among them: Is the city’s water infrastructure too old or too shoddy to prevent such events?

When Schuylkill Yards was first announced – Brandywine Realty Trust’s proposal to turn 14 acres of largely empty, Drexel University-o ...

At her fourth annual Educator Summit, Penn professor and "grit" expert Angela Duckworth brings teachers from all over the globe. WHYY spoke to some about the theory.

Since 2013, district attorneys have filed the charge at least 412 times, according to March 2018 data from the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts.

Researchers are studying the factors that can make epigenetic changes to DNA. A mom's stress, diet and daily habits may become an inheritance of sorts for her kids.

Researchers say environmental factors could explain why some identical twins taste things differently

The Philadelphia Museum of Art's summertime Art Splash program takes cues from urban Modernism.

The sentence was far less than a punishment at the statutory maximum of 15 years of imprisonment.

Coho salmon born in captivity are less likely to survive than those born in the wild, and scientists think captivity may be to blame.

City Controller Rebecca Rhynhart announced her office would audit the Philadelphia Parking Authority’s on-street parking enforcement expenses