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Beginning Jan. 1, 2027, Philadelphia will require employers to provide reasonable accommodations to workers suffering from symptoms of hormonal cycles and changes.

A researcher answers the question many asked when they heard charges of abuse and rape against civil rights icon Cesar Chavez: Why didn't the women speak earlier about the events from decades ago?

Trump promised to fix the economy, and that helped increase his Latino support in 2024. But the cost of living and ICE raids may be bringing Latinos back to the Democrats in 2026.

Betsy Ross probably did not sew the first American flag, but she was one of many craftswomen whose wartime labor helped build a nation.

The Trump administration's miscalculation of Iran is the latest entry in an old and lethal tradition in international politics: the catastrophic gap between what leaders believe and what war delivers.

Several people on the list are deeply embedded in Iran's political, intelligence and security architecture.

In the face of little information, or misinformation, about the war in Iran, media literacy can prove a valuable tool to assess what's happening on the ground.

Geopolitical violence abroad translates into homegrown threats in the US and Canada. Recent antisemitic attacks show how the Jewish community is a target of those threats.

Allegheny County is pouring millions into a new juvenile detention facility, even as evidence mounts that alternatives to detention are more helpful.

Americans have been able to know what troops at war are facing, and make informed decisions about the war's cost, because a free press has been able to tell the story good or bad. Can it still?