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The pandemic pay for traveling nurses was too good to pass up for many RNs. But some are ready to settle down at home, and they're finding full-time jobs aren't keeping up with salary increases.

The state also reported 21,723 new coronavirus cases — and the number people being treated in intensive care for COVID-19 patients increased for the first time in two days to 3,385.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with co-authors Marjorie Ingall and Susan McCarthy about their new book Sorry, Sorry, Sorry: The Case for Good Apologies.

The popular SweetHearts will be tougher to find this Valentine's Day. The company that used to make the candy went out of business. Its new owners aren't ready to start making new batches yet.

The demonstration was part of a nationwide movement opposing recent decisions from the Trump administration to crack down on immigration and LGBTQ rights.

The sun was setting on the courthouse square in the rural college town of Murray, Kentucky, after another sweltering July day. The town bills itself as…

This year, China pledged to go carbon-neutral by 2060. It has invested heavily in solar, wind and nuclear energy. Still, coal-fired heavy industry made up 37% of its economic activity last year.

Economists expect the additional federal spending, coupled with an improving public health picture, will jumpstart economic growth this year.

"I try to tune out all the drag that's out there and tap into the drag I was doing when I was a little kid — when I didn't even know the word 'queer' or that gay people were out there," Velour said.

Over the weekend, Ngugi wa Thiong'o's odds went from 75/1 to 6/1, Ladbrokes reports. He is the second favorite, behind Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer.

The health care overhaul debate in Congress now centers on two bills: the House measure and the Senate Democrats' version unveiled Wednesday. They differ in important ways. Here are commonly asked questions and answers about the bills.

While writer Stephen King was recovering from a near-fatal car accident, he finished a nonfiction book about the craft of writing. In a 2000 interview with Terry Gross, King talked about the demons that haunted him after the accident — and how writing helped his recovery process.

U.S. schools can make use of special visas to hire teachers from other countries. In some rural school districts in Alaska, foreign teachers make up over half the staff.

Tech companies are in a race to roll out AI chatbots and other tools. As technology gets better at faking reality, there are big questions over how to regulate it.

As we look back at books published in 2019, Elizabeth Blair is still thinking about one essay in particular from Nussbaum's collection I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution.

Look up "keto cookbooks" and you find a plethora of options: Quick and Easy Ketogenic Cooking, Southern Keto, Ketogenic Cleanse, Keto Comfort Foods… it’s…

A new initiative in Alabama seeks to address the shortage of child care by supporting the creation of family child care homes. These small businesses aim to better serve the needs of working families.

After GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy invoked the late night host's name, Kimmel went after him and the Republican health care bill, pulling it apart point by point for an audience that might not normally care.

For years, former sports agent Josh Luchs provided money and other benefits to college athletes, in clear violation of NCAA and NFL Players Association rules. He comes clean in a new memoir, Illegal Procedure.

Cases on abortion, gerrymandering, and guns are back on the docket.

The majority of Gazans alive today were too young to vote in the election that brought Hamas to power.

Mike Johnson's honeymoon period ends. The Supreme Court gets ethical.

Between 1980 and 2009, the twin birth rate rose by 76 percent, according to a CDC study from 2012.

Biden leans into his age. A Boeing whistleblower is found dead.

Kenya backs out of its Haiti plan. Orban says Trump will abandon Ukraine.