As he’s poised to leave office in two months, President Joe Biden will leave a legacy of “proactive,” “nuanced” and ...

By Lisa Michelle King Too often, K-12 social studies classes in the U.S. teach a mostly glossed-over story of U.S. settlement ...

Education Secretary Khalid Mumin announced Friday that he will step down next month after just 18 months in his role.

Attorney General-elect Dave Sunday picked former governor and AG Tom Corbett and GOP figurehead Bob Asher to lead his ...

Lawyers for the Democratic and Republican parties filed lawsuits in more than a dozen counties over decisions on provisional ballots.

"County officials in each of our 67 counties were damned if they did and damned if they didn’t – likely facing legal action no matter which decision they made on counting," Gov. Josh Shapiro said.

In last week’s edition of the Numbers Racket, the Capital-Star looked at Americans’ student loan debt. This week we’re continuing our look at student loan debt, using demographic data from the ...

A new federal rule will require water utilities across the country to pull millions of lead drinking water pipes out of the ground and replace them, at a cost of billions of dollars. States, cities ...

Allderdice High School teacher Megan Sommers began her class by pulling up an image of a message in a bottle floating in the ocean. “Looking at this picture, what would you do if you found this bottle ...