Steps taken to reform Social Security during the Biden and Trump administrations have only made the prospects for a funding crisis more serious.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vision for US health policy prioritizes deregulation and leaves Americans with fewer benefits, services and protections.
One long line of powerful winds can whip up dust storms, spread wildfires, spin up tornadoes and fuel blizzards – all at the same time across different states.
Overwhelming people with a deluge of announcements makes it difficult to easily track and understand what is happening in the White House.
Immigration isn’t the only hot-button issue along the US-Mexico border. There’s also a growing water shortage that’s affecting farmers, businesses and cities on both sides.
Enforcing immigration law at the border is the federal government’s role. But in Texas, that job has increasingly been taken on by the state. That shift may be key to Donald Trump’s border plans.
For students to learn in a safe, healthy environment, school administrators must deal with a myriad of potential environmental contaminants, from allergens to cockroaches.
Search engines run by generative AI could fundamentally change the online ecosystem.
The share of low-income US families who sometimes or often didn’t have enough food to eat fell from 24.5% to 22.5% between late April and late July of 2020, a research team found.
Public health messaging has focused on the drinking habits of the mother during pregnancy. But a growing body of research shows that what dad is drinking before pregnancy matters too.
Following a 30-year boy-to-girl birth rate imbalance, up to 800,000 ‘extra’ men born since the mid-1980s will be unable to find a South Korean woman to marry. That has big demographic consequences.
Lots of people will do a lot to avoid feeling negative emotions. But researchers are figuring out how these unpleasant feelings actually have benefits.
An estimated 95% of US cities provide economic development tax incentives to woo corporate investors, taking billions away from schools.
Louisiana’s governor made it easier for companies to receive property tax breaks – and schools will likely pay the price.
Georgia’s inmate fire crews respond to hundreds of calls in surrounding counties every year. Without them, there might not be a responder, but they aren’t universally loved – and they don’t get paid.
A former government prosecutor examines the choice to prosecute a polarizing former president.
By 2100, China’s population will likely be half its current size. It will also be a lot older, with fewer working-age men and women.
Trump has begun another trade war. Here's a timeline of how we got here
Canada's leader laments lost friendship with US in town that sheltered stranded Americans after 9/11
Chinese EV giant BYD's fourth-quarter profit leaps 73%
You're an American in another land? Prepare to talk about the why and how of Trump 2.0
Chalk talk: Star power, top teams and No. 5 seeds headline the women's March Madness Sweet 16
Purdue returns to Sweet 16 with 76-62 win over McNeese in March Madness
