From the Archives: Signe Wilkinson wins Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning

Armistice Day marked the end of World War I on Nov. 11, 1918.

Black service members faced and challenged racial segregation and violence, exemplifying true sacrifice and heroism. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's "war on DEI" in the military diminishes us all.

Sen. Frank A. Pecora, a little-known Republican who represented Allegheny County’s 44th District, switched to the Democratic Party and flipped the balance of power.

Mardee Vosseler, the prima ballerina of the Philadelphia-La Scala Opera company, died days after the crash in South Jersey.

Elizabeth Bathory's notorious bloodbaths have been depicted in all kinds of pop culture, from Lady Gaga in American Horror Story to Netflix's Monster.

Scores of people missed the disclaimer that the broadcast was a radio adaptation of the classic sci-fi novel.

Lasting art can both question and honor the nation.

On Oct. 19, 1752, Franklin announced the results of his electricity experiment in a short blurb that ran in his Pennsylvania Gazette.

One of the Philadelphia region’s greatest local hoaxes haunted the area with mysterious hoofprints, a painted kangaroo, and mass hysteria.

The Museum of the American Revolution offers a two-day living history festival focused on Philadelphia days when independence was new and far from guaranteed.

They weren’t good by traditional standards, but they were a reflection of the working-class city in which they played. And on Oct. 13, 1993, they beat the Atlanta Braves for the National League title.

The Supreme Court gave law enforcement in Pennsylvania a green light to seize so-called skill games devices starting Wednesday. Decades before that ruling, police cracked down on pinball machines.

The legendary show, which debuted on Oct. 6, 1986, used teams of kids from the Philly region to fill out its lineups.

"As hard as they tried to wipe us out, they couldn't," said Holly Wilson, a citizen of the Delaware Nation, whose work is featured in the Penn Museum's Native North America Gallery.

A recently fired city carpenter was arrested for smashing three portraits of Philadelphia mayors.

It is the country’s first penitentiary, which Charles Dickens called "dreadful." Today, it offers many programs about prison reform and its history.

Roughly 1 million people descended upon Philadelphia as Pope Francis became the second sitting pontiff to visit.

For the first time in the history of the Miss America pageant, which dates back to 1921 at the Jersey Shore, a deaf woman would wear the coveted rhinestone tiara in Atlantic City.

As Indians living under British colonial rule learned, data collection is never neutral.

Jasmine Bascoe is among the nation's leading scorers after putting up 26 points in the victory.

“I heard some awful things in some of the videos from counter-protesters. I also heard people who were hurting because they were triggered by the timing of the bike ride," Rabb told CBS.

Noah Solomon, a 10-year-old Moorestown native, became the star of the show, after hitting the game-winner in the halftime event featuring military members.

Latasha Harling, the art museum’s former chief people and diversity officer, pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property, a misdemeanor, on Friday.

Police said the man was fighting with officers and was shot after he pulled out a gun.

A private clash between two of President Donald Trump’s top economic advisers burst into the open Friday, exposing deep division over whether Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was too permissive of Nvidia’s sales of advanced artificial intelligence chips to China.