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The United Nations has issued a warning about an alarming surge in women and girls being raped in Haiti, many of them homeless after being forced out of their homes and neighborhoods by armed gangs.

The U.N. Office for ...Read more

In a summer of Gen Z-driven blockbusters and ancient Greek juggernauts, the 38th entry in the Marvel universe can't help smelling like your uncle's sweaty Comic-Con ball cap. At least the core ensemble of "Spider-Man: ...Read more

NEW YORK — Come September, “Les Misérables,” surely the greatest musical of the latter half of the 20th century, will have been gone from Broadway for a decade.

But to quote Victor Hugo, “aimer, c’est agir,” ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Convicted former Philadelphia labor leader John Dougherty will remain in prison after a federal judge again denied Dougherty’s request to be released on house arrest to provide care for his gravely ill ...Read more

MIAMI — A heat advisory was issued Thursday for the second straight day, with the National Weather Service in Miami warning that feels-like temperatures could soar as high as 110 degrees between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. with ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA – The smartphone alerts and the battery of weather watches and warnings were chilling. But they failed to capture what actually happened in the immediate Philadelphia area.

As it turned out Tuesday, not all...Read more

A Russian missile was likely the object that crashed in eastern Poland early on Thursday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.

The announcement came Thursday after Polish armed forces said it had detected an unidentified ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Voters in battleground states and congressional districts tend to voice support for proposals in Congress that would expand access to health care or lower drug costs — often irrespective of their party ...Read more

The U.S. launched a fresh wave of strikes on Iran in response to an attack on American forces in Jordan, escalating a conflict that’s now spreading across the Middle East.

Washington hit dozens of military targets in an...Read more

The race to develop the first vaccine against the Ebola virus driving the outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo accelerated Thursday, after a top United Nations official warned the epidemic is spreading faster ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Extreme heat is set to roll into Southern California, extending a summer of misery-making stickiness and hot temperatures.

"We've had so many heat waves," said V. Kelly Turner, who leads the heat research ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California lawmakers rejected legislation that would have banned pesticides with so-called "forever" chemicals from use on California's farms, a restriction strongly opposed by the state's billion-dollar ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — That bump in the night you might have heard in the wee hours of Thursday morning could have been for national security.

That’s because a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the NROL-95 mission carrying a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Days after a classicist who translated Homer's "The Odyssey" in 2017 eviscerated the Christopher Nolan film based on the poem, Joyce Carol Oates has entered the debate.

She's Team Nolan.

The National Book...Read more

LOS ANGELES — On the heels of the trailer reveal for the big-screen adaption of "Children of Blood and Bone," the book's author is claiming that an on-set ordeal traumatized her — and fans have been left with more ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Almost five years ago, "Spider-Man: No Way Home" swung into theaters in the teeth of a COVID-19 surge and did what almost nothing else could that winter: drove cooped-up moviegoers to cinemas and opened to...Read more

Although menopause is not a new phenomenon by any means, the past few years of what some have called the “menopause moment” have brought it to the forefront of national conversation.

One form of treatment, ...Read more

Thick smoke from massive wildfires has been spreading in North America and Europe once again in 2026. The health impacts of breathing this particle-filled air are becoming well known, but wildfires’ influence on the ...Read more

Kashmir remains one of the world’s most contentious geopolitical flash points. In April 2025, India and Pakistan, two nuclear-armed countries that share a tense border, came dangerously close to a major confrontation ...Read more

If you live in Philly and want to know information about your tap water quality, start with the latest consumer confidence report, which is required to be produced annually by every community water system in the country...Read more