America’s tumbling birthrate is pushing colleges toward a “demographic cliff,” where a declining population in the late teens ...

Many people are familiar with histamine, a biological molecule that serves as a key driver of allergic reactions and other ...

Social Security’s 2.8% COLA for 2026 may not keep pace with inflation if tariffs drive costs higher. COLAs are based on worker spending patterns rather than retiree spending, leading to insufficient ...

Seattle’s office market just landed another unwanted distinction. The city has the second-highest office vacancy rate among major U.S. markets, trailing only San Francisco, according to the latest ...

The Federal Reserve’s policy decisions in recent years have contributed to a worsening of economic inequality in America, and some of the central bank’s policymakers say it’s not a problem they can ...

Tanning bed usage can cause DNA damage, mutate skin cells beyond ordinary sun exposure and increase the risk of melanoma by nearly three times, according to a Northwestern University study published ...

The best way to fix Americans’ cost-of-living problem is to give workers bigger raises, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said last week. The problem: That solution looks broken, too. The US job ...

It's been another banner year for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite, with all three indexes climbing by double digits. The nation's central bank made dubious history in ...

Financial and social incentives can nudge doctors away from the operating room. By Sarah Kliff and Bianca Pallaro Sarah Kliff reported from Rochester, N.Y. Bianca Pallaro analyzed historical C-section ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday heavily criticized Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, saying he has "mental problems" and that he would love to "fire his ass." Trump’s remarks ...

Overall, flu activity in the U.S. is low, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But experts warn that Americans may be in for another severe season driven by a new version ...

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ordinary ...