While New York City public schools are issuing fewer suspensions overall, sharp disparities by race and disability status remain, according to new data. Schools handed down 27,143 suspensions last school…
A mother and father have been arrested after their 4-year-old twin boys were shot upon discovering a handgun hidden in a couch at their family home in Florida, authorities said.…
ISLAMABAD — A suicide bomber struck outside the gates of a district court in Islamabad on Tuesday, detonating his explosives next to a police car and killing 12 people, Pakistan’s…
The dollar-plus premium I pay for a Diet Coke at my North Philadelphia corner store, a direct hit from the city’s sweetened beverage tax, is a persistent, tangible reminder of…
When Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital began offering new mothers who gave birth there a follow-up visit with a nurse at home, Ebony Durant worried that the idea would be a…
Police released surveillance video Monday of a fedora-wearing cyclist dressed who roiled the city when he spray-painted swastikas at a Brooklyn yeshiva and a Jewish cemetery just hours after the…
The Philadelphia Orchestra’s long and rocky search for a new principal trumpeter has landed on a recent Curtis Institute of Music graduate. James Vaughen, 26, won the job after a…
States administering a federal food aid program serving about 42 million Americans faced uncertainty Monday over whether they can — and should — provide full monthly benefits during an ongoing…
For most Americans, homeownership is the key to achieving financial security and their entrée to the middle class. In New York City, fewer than a third of our 8.4 million…
Hundreds of Philadelphia School District special education students are not getting services they are legally entitled to receive, those on the ground in city schools say — including speech, occupational…
