Brent Staples, winner of a 2019 Pulitzer Prize, had a challenging path from growing up in Chester to earning journalism’s biggest prize, writes Valerie Russ for The Philadelphia Inquirer. St... Read more
Philadelphia is among the metropolitan areas with the highest percentage of adults living with their parents, writes Michael Kolomatsky for The New York Times. Nationwide, the number of adul... Read more
Media resident George Crumb, the renowned composer and winner of both a Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award, will celebrate his 90th birthday in October, writes Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim for T... Read more
The consensus among demographers and economists runs contrary to President Donald Trump’s recent assertion that characterized the country as full, write Neil Irwin and Emily Badger for The N... Read more
Thanks to Havertown native John Middleton, the Phillies’ principal owner and managing partner, the team signed perennial All-Star Bryce Harper to one of the longest and richest free-agent de... Read more
John Hickenlooper, a member of The Haverford School’s Class of 1970 and a two-time governor of Colorado, has declared his candidacy for president, writes Julie Turkewitz for The New York Tim... Read more
The nationwide search for the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions issued by early feminists in 1848 has highlighted a founder of Swarthmore College, write Liz Robbins and Sam Roberts f... Read more
NASA scientists have confirmed that the average surface temperature in 2018 was the fourth-highest in nearly 140 years of recordkeeping, with Philadelphia also experiencing this warming tren... Read more
Hershey has solved the mystery of missing tips on their Kisses, saying the manufacturing process was the cause, writes Mihir Zaveri for The New York Times. The issue was first reported in De... Read more
After receiving treatment for an eating disorder, figure skater Gracie Gold, who won a bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, is back on the ice and training at IceWorks in Aston... Read more
