The first few days of the new year brought confirmation of some disturbing news: 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded. Researchers had that would be the case amid relentless daily and monthly ...

Palestinians line up for food in Rafah, Gaza Strip, in November 2023, during a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. (Hatem Ali/AP) House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif. gestures toward the ...

Health care spending in the US reached $4.9 trillion and increased 7.5 percent in 2023, growing from a rate of 4.6 percent in 2022. In 2023, the insured share of the population reached 92.5 percent, ...

Alabama can move forward with its legislature-drawn congressional map for this year's special primary elections after a 6-3 ...

Record cocaine production and high demand for the drug contributed to criminal violence across Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023, as traffickers established new routes to bypass increasing ...

The U.S. labor market ended the year strong, creating more than 200,000 jobs in the last month of the year and nearly 2.7 million jobs in all of 2023, when seasonally adjusted. Consumer spending ...

Africa's coastlines are under growing threat as sea levels climb faster than ever, driven by decades of global warming caused by human activity, natural climate cycles, and warming ocean waters.