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Selenia Tello, a teacher at Norristown Area School District, is advocating for a bill that would allow immigrants to apply for teacher certifications.

Pa. Democratic lawmakers renew push to expand teacher certification and in-state tuition for DACA recipients

Two bills in the Pennsylvania state legislature are seeking to expand access to education for immigrants.

A federal court in Little Rock says Candance Chapman Scott illegally sold and shipped human body parts taken from medical cadavers from the University of Arkansas Medical School.

Arkansas woman pleads not guilty to selling over 20 boxes of stolen human body parts

She was hired to cremate medical cadavers. But first, she harvested organs, skin and genitalia and sold them to a man she met through a Facebook group called Oddities, according to court documents.

Miriala Gonzalez, a registered nurse in Miami, carries a monkeypox vaccine. A new survey highlights major concerns from nurses nationwide regarding future staffing levels in hospitals.

Nearly a third of nurses nationwide say they are likely to leave the profession

Unions representing nurses say the findings from the latest AMN Healthcare survey are not a surprise. The nurses unions have long warned about problems facing the profession.

A view of vehicles in a dust storm that cut visibility to near zero and triggered a series of chain-reaction crashes on a highway in Springfield, Ill.

A sudden dust storm in Illinois led to car crashes that killed 6 and injured dozens

Police said more than 70 vehicles were involved in the crashes that left parts of Interstate 55 closed and more than 35 people injured. Injuries ranged from minor to life-threatening.

'Some Like It Hot' leads with 13 Tony Award nominations

J. Harrison Ghee (Some Like It Hot) and Alex Newell (Shucked) are the first nonbinary actors to be nominated for Tonys, and today's announcement also highlighted three plays which have won Pulitzers.

The fight over the debt ceiling could sink the economy. This is how we got here

Once upon a time, raising the nation's borrowing limit was considered a fairly routine vote. Today, Biden and the GOP are on a partisan collision course that risks landing the U.S. in default.

A Chase Bank location in Warrington, Pa. Regulators seized First Republic Bank and sold all of its deposits and most of its assets to JPMorgan Chase Bank.

Has JPMorgan Chase grown too large? A former White House economic adviser weighs in

What are the risks of JPMorgan Chase becoming even bigger since taking over First Republic Bank? NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Tomas Philipson, a former head of the White House Economic Advisers Council.

Scientists haven't unraveled the cause of long COVID. But evidence is growing that an ongoing viral infection could be driving the symptoms, at least in some patients.

Why viral reservoirs are a prime suspect for long COVID sleuths

Scientists are turning up more evidence that some people may harbor a viral reservoir in the wake of COVID-19. What could that tell us about long COVID?

Bay St. Louis police, Hancock County sheriff's deputies and Waveland police respond to a shooting in Bay St. Louis, Miss., early Sunday morning.

2 teens were killed in a shooting at a house party on the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Police have charged a 19-year-old man with killing two and wounding four others in the city of Bay St. Louis, about 15 miles west of Gulfport.

Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro holds up Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward's hand as he signs the first bill of his tenure.

Josh Shapiro signs first bill, expands Pa. health insurance coverage for breast cancer screenings

PA Gov. Josh Shapiro has signed a law that requires health insurers to cover breast cancer screenings for high-risk patients.

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