A newly released national report card that intends to show student achievement across the country shows that, here in Philadelphia — while, students have shown some progress over scores from 2022 — students are still trailing other major cities in reading and math scores.

People still see COVID-19 as an ongoing public health threat, even though the pandemic officially ended in 2023, acc

Mexico City and vacation hotspot Cancun are among the most popular destinations for flights departing the United States. In the Philadelphia region, increased demand for flights has been driven by a population of more than 187,000 people of Mexican ancestry in the area looking for convenient travel between the countries.

Child care costs have continued to rise year after year, ballooning 20% since 2019. Prices are highest in the state’s major population centers, Philadelphia and Allegheny counties, where families pay over $12,

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

A freshman Idaho lawmaker wants to ban most COVID-19 shots for the next decade, with a bill rooted in misconceptions about vaccines that thrived during the pandemic. The bill from Sen. Brandon Shippy,

The U.S. is seeing a "quad-demic" as cases of COVID-19, flu, RSV and norovirus spread at the same time. Experts said this is what you need to know.

The U.S. has historically been the largest funder of WHO, as well as global tuberculosis programs. On his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to pull the U.S. out of WHO. The administration has since ordered CDC staff to immediately stop collaborating with WHO, the Associated Press reported .

The health care executive, who became the first Black man to lead the company, is stepping down after four years at the helm.

A longtime anti-vaxxer, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed to "Make America Healthy Again" if he is confirmed as Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary.

“CIA assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin based on the available body of reporting,” a CIA spokesperson ...

With President Donald Trump having threatened school vaccine mandates for children during his campaign, a new survey finds that nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults support requiring that children be vaccinated against preventable diseases such as measles,