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The unemployment rate for black workers has now dropped below 8 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says. Some of April's biggest job gains came in hospitality, health care and social assistance.

The cold and snow that walloped Washington didn't stop Ashton Carter from reporting for work at the Pentagon Tuesday. Carter was sworn in as the 25th U.S. Secretary of Defense on Tuesday.

In the wake of the mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso, Texas, President Trump last week shared a litany of proposals, including the so-called “red flag”…

Under the Biden administration, migrants from embattled countries could apply for entry for humanitarian reasons, without having to attempt to cross into the U.S. illegally.

Several states have introduced legislation to reduce the minimum working age and increase the number of hours high school students can work in order to combat labor shortages.

On Saturday, thousands of Venezuelans crossed the newly reopened border, seeking basic supplies like food and medicine that are scarce in their own country.

In July, the first US case of polio in nearly a decade appeared in New York. The case was contracted from someone who had received the oral polio vaccine which, although no longer used in the US, continues to be key to the global effort to eradicate polio.

Europe is launching programs like “Choose Europe for Science” to try and bring American scientists across the Atlantic. With less scientists coming in, and more going out, is America experiencing a "brain drain"?

Europe is launching programs like “Choose Europe for Science” to try and bring American scientists across the Atlantic. With less scientists coming in, and more going out, is America experiencing a "brain drain"?

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments earlier this week on a case that could severely curtail the E.P.A.’s ability to address climate change. We discuss that and an exhaustive report released by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on climate change that among other findings, said that as climate change worsens, humanity risks running into hard limits on our ability to cope.