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A new play "¡Bienvenidos Blancos!, or Welcome White People!" tracks a descendant of the Cuban exodus as he re-assesses his feelings for the island nation.

Eagles organization Don Smolenski estimated the team spent between $2 million and $3 million on the festivities.

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

For the second time in as many months, high school students around the country walked out of school to protest gun violence and call for more gun control.

Legislators in the First State are still actually working toward passing small but meaningful gun control legislation. That said, things are moving slowly.

Photographer and Drexel professor Andrea Modica photographed Mummer wenches, one day a year for 10 years.

A federal judge has sentenced Mohammed Jabbateh to 30 years in prison for lying to U.S. immigration officials about being a brutal warlord during Liberia's first civil war.

Thirty-four-year-old Meghan Adorno says being vegan is about keeping herself healthy, protecting animals, and saving the planet.

On the spectrum from tree hugger to climate-change denier, Americans claim to be “green” — or not — in all sorts of ways.

Living in Houston with flaring smokestacks in the distance stoked Carrie Feibel’s eco-anxieties. Still, she decided to have a kid... but just one.

Some companies offer you the chance to “erase” your carbon sins without making big changes to your lifestyle.

Commissioner Richard Ross apologizes after previously defending police for their handling of the incident.

It’s been more than six months since Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico. Yet some of the 900 families who came to Philadelphia looking for refuge, are still facing homelessness.

The Philadelphia Water Department is proposing to raise the city’s water rate by 11 percent over the next three years.

Evan and Darlene love each other. But they do not see eye to eye on safe injection sites. The debate has infused their conversations, in all hours of the day and night.