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In at least 36 states and the District of Columbia, child welfare agencies use a child's benefit checks to offset the cost of foster care, often leaving them with a tattered safety net as adults.

After the 1996 Dickey Amendment halted federal spending on gun violence research, a small group of academics pressed on, with little money or support. Now a new generation is taking up the charge.

The leaders of six journalism schools discuss the ongoing media bloodbath, the cost of a journalism degree, and how to prepare journalists for the future.

High levels of lead were found in a surprisingly large number of Bangladeshi kids in New York City — and in pregnant women in Bangladesh. Could there be a common cause?

Hawaii's unique birds, known as honeycreepers, are being wiped out by mosquitoes carrying avian malaria. The birds' last hope could be more mosquitoes, designed to crash their own population.

In 2025, fandom is complicated. Music is at nearly everyone's fingertips. Concert ticket prices are through the roof. Some fans take devotion to new extremes. What do we owe to the artists we love?

In 2005, two Chicagoans made a generational classic and then sprinted in opposite directions, each daring the rest of hip-hop to follow them.

North Korea sent 11,000 elite soldiers to support Russia. Their progress — especially in drone warfare — has implications not only for Russia's war on Ukraine but also peace on the Korean Peninsula.

What even is the business of the S&P 500, and how does it make so much money?

President Trump has signed off on the release of the Epstein files, after months of resistance and days after an abrupt about-face. Here's how his messaging has evolved since taking office.