Imagine nearly every seat in Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center − over 20,000 seats − are empty. That’s the scale of Pennsylvania’s projected shortfall of registered nurses by 2026, according to the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania.

Hospitals in the state report an average 14% vacancy rate for registered ...Read more

When the Trump administration announced in February 2025 that it was cutting 10% of staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it seemed that a small but storied program within it called the Epidemic Intelligence Service – also known as the CDC’s disease detectives – would also be cut. A few days later, the program was ...Read more

The Trump administration is working to lift regulations on coal-fired power plants in the hopes of making its energy less expensive. But while cost is one important aspect, utilities have a lot more to consider when they choose their power sources.

Different technologies play different roles in the power system. Some sources, like ...Read more

Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over 100 sites in 39 states, in a range of different structures and containers.

For decades, the nation has been trying to send it all to one secure location.

A 1987 federal law named Yucca Mountain, in Nevada, as a permanent disposal site for nuclear waste – ...Read more

News reports of noncitizens unexpectedly being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, have dominated headlines in recent weeks. Those being detained include noncitizens who hold lawful permanent residency status.

One story concerns the March 8, 2025, arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful permanent resident and recent ...Read more

Same-sex marriage, which the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 legalized nationwide in the case known as Obergefell v. Hodges, is facing resurgent hostility.

In the decade since the court’s decision, public support for same-sex marriage has increased. Currently, about 70% of Americans approve of legally recognizing the marriages of same-...Read more

Some Americans who rely on Medicaid to pay for their health care don’t realize their insurance is funded by that very program, which congressional Republicans are looking to shrink.

One reason is that state programs aren’t always called “Medicaid.” Many states have rebranded their programs with consumer-friendly names such as SoonerCare...Read more

When Le Ngoc Tham became sales manager for a new industrial park in northern Vietnam, the goal was to turn it into an easy alternative for manufacturers leaving China to avoid the tariffs of the first U.S.-Sino trade war.

Three years later, with less than half of the 1,716-acre project completed, dozens of companies interested in leasing the ...Read more

Substance abuse services in schools and a help line intended to prevent people’s mental health issues from escalating are among Minnesota programs scaling back amid an attempt to cancel federal funding.

The Trump administration wants to rescind $27.5 million in COVID-era grants for 85 mental health and addiction programs across the state, ...Read more

Aggressive deportation tactics have terrorized farmworkers at the center of the nation’s bird flu strategy, public health workers say.

Dairy and poultry workers have accounted for most cases of the bird flu in the U.S. — and preventing and detecting cases among them is key to averting a pandemic. But public health specialists say they’re ...Read more

Mass firings at the FDA have decimated divisions tasked with releasing public records generated by the agency’s regulatory activities in sectors including tobacco, food, medical devices, and veterinary medicine.

But as the dust settled on the layoff melee, a notable exception emerged among the agency’s staff charged with responding to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The fires that swept through Los Angeles County in January left behind more than 1 million pounds of damaged lithium-ion batteries, ranging from slim capsules inside iPhones to the brick-like blocks that run electric vehicles.

Cheap and reliable, lithium-ion batteries have helped the world's transition to green energy but come ...Read more

Father Joe’s Villages had hoped to break ground this year.

The nonprofit wants to build a pair of affordable housing complexes downtown that would each hold more than 100 apartments, and leaders had applied for a multimillion-dollar federal grant to help cover one building’s construction costs. Yet because funding from the U.S. Department ...Read more

The Trump administration challenged the basis for returning a wrongly deported Maryland man from a notorious El Salvador prison, telling a federal judge that he’s a member of the MS-13 gang and so not eligible to come back to the U.S.

The Justice Department suggested in a Sunday court filing that it may resist an April 10 ruling by the U.S. ...Read more

Apple Inc. has managed to dodge its biggest crisis since the pandemic — for the moment, at least.

Donald Trump’s 125% tariffs on goods produced in China threatened to upend its supply chain as seriously as the Covid snarls did five years ago. On Friday night, the U.S. president handed Apple a major victory, exempting many popular consumer ...Read more

CARTERVILLE, Ill. — Southwest suburban Democratic U.S. Rep. Sean Casten acknowledged he wasn’t sure what to expect when he accepted an invitation by the state’s Democratic county chairs to host a town hall Sunday in the ruby red southern Illinois home of the state’s most Republican congressional district.

In addition to speaking more ...Read more

President Donald Trump has lost about 20 pounds since his last official weigh-in and he can thank his golf game, at least in part, according to his doctor.

The 47th U.S. President, at 78 the oldest ever inaugurated, still stands 6-feet-3-inches tall — just as he did during his first term — but the scale now shows his weight at 224 pounds, ...Read more

At 72, Clay Lory was enjoying his retirement. He enjoyed working on hobbies, traveling and spending time with family.

But over the past couple of months, the former Norfolk, Virginia, businessman has been devoted to a new passion — opposing the actions and policies of President Donald Trump’s administration. His days are now filled with ...Read more

President Donald Trump pledged he will still apply tariffs to phones, computers and popular consumer electronics, downplaying a weekend exemption as a procedural step in his overall push to remake U.S. trade.

The late Friday reprieve — exempting a range of popular electronics from 125% tariffs on China and a 10% flat rate around the globe —...Read more

Most Americans say they expect President Donald Trump’s tariffs will increase prices in the short term and worsen the U.S. economy, though misgivings focus more on his approach than his goals, such as boosting domestic manufacturing, according to a CBS News poll.

Those who say Trump’s policies are making them financially worse off increased...Read more