With hotter temperatures come more heat-related workplace injuries — about 28,000 injuries each year, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Environmental Health. Scientists have long warned of climate change-driven extreme heat and its dangers to health. Studies have shown extreme heat can cause fatigue, poorer coordination and reduced attention. Put together, […]

The nation’s prison population grew for the second consecutive year in 2023, reversing more than a decade of steady decline.

Illegal street takeovers, where drivers block roads to perform stunts, have become an increasing concern in cities across the country.

Friday’s jobs report is missing in action because of the federal shutdown, but economists are finding other ways of measuring apparent job losses concentrated in Midwestern states and oil country. Une...

An estimated 1.4 million immigrants who are in the country legally but are not citizens stand to lose their government-subsidized health care coverage under the sweeping tax and spending bill Presiden...

The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on Tuesday in a case that could reverse or solidify state laws across the country that ban conversion therapy, a controversial counseling…

With hotter temperatures come more heat-related workplace injuries — about 28,000 injuries each year, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Environmental Health.

With hotter temperatures come more heat-related workplace injuries — about 28,000 injuries each year, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Environmental Health. Scientists have lon...

The nation’s prison population grew for the second consecutive year in 2023, reversing more than a decade of steady decline.

As a middle-school student in 1980s Philadelphia, Shelley Hunter remembers getting to and from school pretty easily thanks to the city’s public transit service, SEPTA, which had bus and train routes…

A majority of children in the United States rely on Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program at some point by their 18th birthday, and many experience periods of coverage loss, according…

A pathway has opened for an industry of small-car, ride-hailing and private transport services to ferry children to and from school.

America’s prison population is growing older at a pace that some experts say is unsustainable.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A transplant from Miami, Anallive Calle learned her way around Kansas City from behind the wheel of a big yellow school bus. The tablet near the dash provides turn-by-turn…

States that expanded Medicaid must require the expansion population to work or train for at least 80 hours per month.

America’s prison population is growing older at a pace that some experts say is unsustainable.

Vermont, New York, Washington, New Jersey and Maine have the best combination of relatively low environmental risks and robust environmental policies, according to a report released this week. West Virginia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Florida and Mississippi ranked lowest on the 50-state scorecard produced by the Commonwealth Fund, a foundation that advocates for health care improvements. Researchers […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A transplant from Miami, Anallive Calle learned her way around Kansas City from behind the wheel of a big yellow school bus. The tablet near the dash provides turn-by-turn directions to every stop and checks each kid on and off the bus throughout her route. It’s helped her navigate the narrow […]

Georgia spent $54.2 million in less than five years to administer the country’s only Medicaid program with work requirements – more than twice as much as it spent to provide health care to enrollees, according to an analysis released earlier this month by the Government Accountability Office. The report suggests it will be expensive to […]

Under the Constitution, states are responsible for administering elections, and some state election officials have said they are barred by state law from handing over the information the Justice Depar...

Tens of thousands of homes and businesses without internet access will not receive it.

Hours after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Suzanne Swierc shared two thoughts on her private Facebook page — that the killing of the right-wing activist was wrong, and that his death reflected “the vio...

A wave of firings and investigations sweeps through academia and government in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assasination.