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The job market improved in June, as employers added 288,000 workers to their payrolls and the unemployment rate fell to 6.1 percent. In another welcome development, the ranks of the long-term unemployed declined.

The May jobs report showed steady job creation. Payrolls expanded by 217,000, and unemployment held steady at 6.3%. And there was a milestone: The U.S. economy now has slightly more jobs than it did in December 2007, when the last recession began.

"It was too much," Biles said of enduring years of media coverage of disgraced former team doctor Larry Nassar. "But I was not going to let him take something I've worked for since I was 6 years old."

One man's struggle to get treatment for the abuse he suffered as a child serves as a lesson for others.

The music we listen to varies according to the time of day, with qualities like tempo and danceability heightening later in the day, according to a data analysis of online music streaming habits.

Steve Bannon, adviser to former President Donald Trump, was indicted Friday for contempt of Congress.

Melissa Lynn Kelly owns a bar in Longview, Texas. Kelly and other bar owners are suing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott after he closed bars across the state to curb the recent surge of COVID-19 cases.

The U.S. Supreme Court rules that federal authorities may prosecute people who use marijuana on doctor's orders. In a 6-to-3 decision, the court found that federal laws prohibiting marijuana use trump state laws that legalize the drug's medical use.

The White House meeting took place four days afterelectors met to make Joe Biden the president-elect. A faction that pushed the former president to fight that outcome clashed with Trump's advisers.

The vote was 6-to-3 to partially overturn a decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which had blocked a Department of Defense vaccine mandate for military personnel.

Case in point: India, which reported 481,000 COVID-19 deaths in 2020 and 2021. The World Health Organization found 4.74 million deaths there either directly or indirectly attributable to the pandemic.

A RAND Corporation survey found that Americans who served in the military support extremist views at rates lower than nonveterans.

Gov. Ron DeSantis requested $4 billion to expedite 20 highway projects spanning from Central Florida to South Florida, under the banner of “Moving Florida Forward.”

Economic growth slowed in the first three months of 2023. The Commerce Department said that gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 1.1% in the first quarter — down from 2.6% in late 2022.

Research by the Brookings Institution shows that poor children do worse in school partly because their families have fewer financial resources, but also…

In Florida, blind children 6-to-13 years old are not eligible for state assistance. It’s a coverage gap that’s been in place for years. A Tallahassee...

Slow-moving Sally, which strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane Monday, continues to threaten the northern Gulf Coast with flooding rains upon its projected landfall in next few days near Louisiana.

Local water managers and planners say the 70-year-old system needs to undergo a $6 million study to look at fixes to address sea rise.

In response to a recent commentary from producer Viet Le about the trials of being extra small, his colleague across the cubicles, Gabe O'Connor, offers some insight on what it's like to be extra big.

By a 6-to-2 vote, the justices said Google's use of Oracle code did not infringe copyright laws.

Gap health insurance plans are meant to cover one-time events. When the health care law required some form of major medical insurance, it was thought the need for gap coverage would disappear.

U.S. employers added 428,000 jobs in April, as the unemployment rate held steady at 3.6%. Stiff competition for workers is pushing up wages, which has inflation watchdogs concerned.

A controversial women's final at Wimbledon, plus the WNBA All-Stars Game in Chicago.

The South African city of Cape Town is running out of water. On Day Zero — April 16 — the taps will get turned off. As that day approaches, residents are thirsty for answers.

Though Congress likely won't pass President Biden's most ambitious gun control proposals, some legislation might still be possible. Also, a second former Trump adviser is indicted.