WHYY is proud to present the 2025 regional winners who will participate in the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee. Students from South Jersey and Philadelphia will compete in two spelling bees ...

The Department of Education earlier this month canceled a grant that helped fund some of PBS' children's programming.

President Donald Trump said he has tasked Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with determining how ...

As scientists try to untangle the reasons for skyrocketing rates of nearsightedness in kids, new treatment options can help prevent their vision from getting worse. In the U.S. myopia rates have ...

Pato O'Ward seeks peace and quiet as a self-proclaimed introvert. You wouldn't know it from how he's built his superstar fandom.

May 25, 2025 • What do you get if you add poems that are "Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids" with pictures of yetis and primordial slime? Words with Wings and Magic Things, a book of ...

Donald J. Trump is the 45th and 47th President of the United States. Before becoming a politician, He was an American businessman and a television personality. Trump was born on June 14th, 1946 ...