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From inflation, to credit card debt, to who's actually doing the spending: These are key takeaways from this week in economic news.

The number of abortions is up in the United States. Is it because fewer people are using birth control pills?

Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt are experts in what makes democracies healthy — and what leads to their collapse. They warn that American democracy is in trouble.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced the recipients of this year's fellowships. Twenty-four innovators in art, science, writing and more will each receive $500,000 over the next five years.

Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison is back on the literary scene with a new book, A Mercy. Set in 17th century America, the story follows a teenaged girl enslaved during a time when many people, not just blacks, were in bondage. Morrison talks about her book, its characters and whether we're living in a post-racial age.

Guyana, one of South America's poorest countries, is under severe threat by rising seas. That had made it a champion of climate action, but it all changed when ExxonMobil found oil off its waters.

Read an exclusive excerpt of Allen Salkin's new history of the Food Network, From Scratch. It's an affectionate but unsparing look at a scrappy little startup network that became a national broadcasting behemoth — and brought people like Emeril Lagasse and Rachael Ray into millions of homes.

The district reports a loss of 6,600 total students so far this year, double the number expected.

In its Sunday report, the Florida Department of Health reported seven people died due to a primary diagnosis of COVID-19. There were 5,520 new cases, with a positivity rate of 7.65%.

The state’s unemployment rate now stands at 4.9% as some industries continue to report that people are slow to return to work.

Each year, the town of Verona, Italy — home of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet — receives thousands of letters of unrequited love addressed to the play's star-crossed heroine. And each letter — more than 6,000 a year — is answered by hand by a team of secretaries at the Juliet Club.

With Tampa Bay area temperatures expected to drop into the low 30s tonight with wind chills even lower, cold weather shelters will open all over the Bay...

Donald Trump is surging in the polls, despite the waves of condemnation from his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the U.S.The latest poll from the…

The positivity rate for the week more than doubled from 2.6% last week to 5.4% this week.

This page will be updated as necessary as Hurricane Ian impacts Florida. Evacuations are ordered by county, so make sure to check with your county's website for further details.

Freshman Republican Rep. Peter Meijer voted to impeach Trump following the Jan. 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol.

Inflation cooled only slightly last month as the cost of housing, food and gas rose. Consumer prices in January were 6.4%, compared to a 6.5% inflation rate the month before.

Reports show the Florida pension system had investment losses of about 6.2 percent during the fiscal year that ended June 30 — similar to pension-system losses across the country.

Olivia Pollock is the sister of another Jan. 6 defendant, Jonathan Pollock, who has been on the lam for months.

The Gateway Expressway, which will connect U.S. 19, I-275 and the Bayside Bridge in Pinellas County with two new elevated toll roads, was expected to be completed by February.

Commissioners approved putting $5.6 million in uncommitted HOPE dollars toward one-time hurricane relief for mobile home residents.

Through an email blast, federal workers were given the opportunity to resign from their jobs before Feb. 6 and retain full pay and benefits through Sept. 30.

The $6.5 billion deal brings together the maker of ChatGPT and one of the world's most famous product designers in a venture to create new AI-enabled devices.

The county launched an online survey and will host a series of public meetings in April and May, according to a release. The money will support housing, businesses and infrastructure in areas hardest hit by 2023 and 2024 hurricanes.

The hunt, which started Dec. 6 and ended Sunday, had been restricted to 172 permit holders who had won vouchers through a random lottery involving more than 160,000 applicants.