As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic declines in ...

Chris Patel has learned a lot about what works and what doesn’t work while growing his Papa Johns portfolio from four to 70 ...

Applications to Philadelphia-area medical schools declined in 2024 for the third consecutive year, returning to pre-pandemic levels, according to new data from the Association of American Medical ...

As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic declines in homicides and drops in other violent crimes compared to 2023.

This story was produced as part of Spotlight PA’s new Berks Bureau, an effort to revitalize independent, nonpartisan investigative and public-service journalism in Berks County. To support ...

When Philadelphia’s police union was negotiating its last contract in 2021, calls to “abolish” and “defund” the police still echoed across the city. The national reckoning over police brutality in the ...

Engineering and medical researchers at Penn have developed a groundbreaking framework that can determine the best and most ...

With the acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic fading even as the coronavirus persists and evolves, a new normal is taking shape around the world. Experts expect cases to rise again this winter.

asked the federal government to revoke its authorization of all COVID-19 vaccines in May 2021, just as vaccinated Americans began returning to a sense of normalcy after pandemic lockdowns.

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, began in late 2019 in Wuhan, China. The first case of the virus was identified in December 2019 and was linked to a seafood market in ...