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

The average premium through the ACA marketplace reportedly fell 25% in April due to tax subsidies in the American Rescue Plan. Meantime, Florida's Medicaid enrollment continued to climb in June.

In an interview with NPR, the Treasury secretary calls to permanently expand the child tax credit being paid out to American families starting this week.

Utah's hate crime laws specifically include police as a protected category, along with race and gender. It's one of at least five states with such protections for law enforcement.

Only about 42% of 18- to 24-year-olds are fully vaccinated. Eager to reach them, the White House is calling in pop stars and trying to spread the word on TikTok.

NY Times reporter Ivan Penn unpacks the debate over infrastructure: Do we fund huge wind and solar farms with new transmission lines, or go local, with rooftop solar panels, batteries and micro-grids?

John Kerry, the former secretary of state and now President Biden's special envoy for climate, is the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Moscow since Biden took office.

The end of tenant protections on July 31 has raised concerns that thousands of Florida residents will be unable to afford their monthly rent and face eviction. In the greater Tampa Bay region, median rents have surged by more than 16%.

Critics say volunteering abroad does not always benefit local communities. The coronavirus travel bans have led to a different approach for volunteers who want to donate their services.

The COVID-19 curve is rising again after months of decline, driven by the delta variant, lagging vaccination rates and Fourth of July gatherings.

Passengers joining Jeff Bezos on the suborbital flight will include Oliver Daemen, 18, and Wally Funk, 82. Funk was older than Daemen is now back in the 1960s when she trained to be an astronaut.

Dev Patel as a knight of the Round Table, Jodie Turner-Smith as Anne Boleyn, the mostly nonwhite casts of Bridgerton and Hamilton — all belong to a tradition that has its roots in live theater.

Oliver Daemon, 18, will join Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark, and an 82-year-old aviator on the suborbital mission.

Macaroni & cheese ice cream is here, and not everyone thinks it's a good idea. "We are living in the last days," comedian Josh Pray says.

Coastal areas are seeing a steady increase in high tide flooding. Scientists warn the problem is accelerating as the Earth gets hotter. And a little wobble in the Moon's orbit isn't helping.

Student-athletes at a local high school have been waking up early this summer to pick up some running companions — dogs from the Humane Society.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission said the giant online retailer had to accept responsibility for the potentially unsafe products listed on its platform and recall them.

New research published in the journal Nature suggests that mass deforestation and fire have dramatically undercut the Amazon's ability to absorb heat-trapping carbon emissions.

Five years after an attempted coup shook Turkey and created a sweeping crack down against the president's perceived enemies, journalists look at the state of free speech.

Haiti is preparing a state funeral for its assassinated president as the national police force rejects speculation that the prime minister had a role in the killing.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in Minnesota are putting forth bills to change the voting process in the state.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., on the FBI's mishandling of the investigation into abuse perpetrated by gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.

After the state legislature failed two years running to enact a complete ban, Gov. Tim Walz signed an executive order designed to "have the effect of barring access" to the discredited practice.

Jarrod Ramos, who carried out the attack on the Capital Gazette, admitted to five murders. On Thursday, a jury found he understood what he was doing.

Now newly reissued, Gloria Naylor's 1982 novel-in-stories painted a group portrait of seven Black women living on a dingy street in an unnamed city, and the systematic racism they faced.