After an attack on a gay couple, the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would expand Pennsylvania's hate crime law to cover sexual orientation.

Since February 2013, Penn’s Cultural Heritage Center has been working with Syrians to safeguard the country's artifacts and heritage sites from ISIS, President Bashar al-Assad's forces and looters.

As federal legislators take up the effort to combat sexual assault on campuses, Penn administrators have concerns with a proposed bill to change sexual assault protocols at colleges across the country.

On Sept. 17, Penn Law alum and current professor, Ken Trujillo, declared that he will be running for Mayor of Philadelphia next year.

Throughout the week, Penn for Syrian Refugees, Penn Arab Student Society and Al Bustan Seeds of Culture are hosting Syria Awareness Week.

Penn for Pennsylvania, a student group recently started by three freshman hall mates, has been lobbying for a Pennsylvania gubernatorial debate to be held at Penn’s Annenberg Center.

Last Thursday was the inaugural session of the Penn Political Union, a new branch of the Government and Politics Association. The organization is the first central political institution for people of all political perspectives at Penn to voice their ideas and opinions.

A group of 90 Penn students took to the streets of New York on Sunday to participate in the People's Climate March

In anticipation for the midterm elections, Penn has a jam-packed schedule for National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday, Sept. 23.

Under the new law, a person stopped with less than 30 grams of marijuana will only have to pay a $25 fine

While Penn’s presence and power on Wall Street has been well documented, over the last few years Penn and its alumni have been gradually working to build their influence in Washington D.C.

While New York and the rest of the country were sent into a fit of chaos and confusion, Penn’s campus reflected very much the same picture.

In the near future, having a little bit of weed in your pocket while strolling the streets of Philadelphia will not make you a criminal.

As students return to campus looking to get involved with extracurricular activities, Penn Democrats, one of the most active political organizations on campus, has a prominent recruiting tool: Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter.

While gridlock in Washington, D.C. continues to cripple countless legislative efforts from across the political spectrum, Penn’s legislative agenda has been left to suffer.

The Democratic National Committee named Philadelphia as a finalist to host the 2016 Democratic convention, where delegates will officially nominate the party's candidate for President.

Medical Ethics and Health Policy professor Jennifer Prah Ruger and Law School professor Theodore Ruger teamed up with Boston University professor George Annas to write an article released in the New England Journal of Medicine. They discuss the controversial five to four Hobby Lobby decision and argue that drugs and devices critical to health should be universally available.