The unlikely union started with a tweet from the democratic socialist congresswoman, to which the conservative senator replied, “Here’s something I don’t say often: on this point, I AGREE.”
Doctors who feel burned out are more likely to cut back on hours or leave medicine entirely. This costs hospitals and health care organizations billions each year, new research finds.
The Arkansas River is rising well above its previous record, and it’s forecast to stay that way for days. That’s putting pressure on old levees and making it hard for some residents to evacuate.
With hours to go before the expiration of a state license that allows a Missouri health center to perform abortions, clinics across state lines say they are preparing for an influx of patients.
Uber had told investors to be prepared for it to lose even more than that; its first earnings report as a public company came in on the better end of Uber’s projected range.
Facebook, Google and other tech giants have been hit with problems they didn’t anticipate their software creating. An MIT professor is teaching students that ethics is essential to their future work.
The administration’s proposed adjustment to the wage index, a key factor used to set hospitals’ Medicare payments, could help rural facilities while hurting those in cities.
Last fall, Merck said it would stop selling its rotavirus vaccine to West Africa and redirect its supply to China at a higher price. After NPR broke the story, the situation changed — for the good.
Jill Lepore, author of These Truths, argues that supporters of free and fair liberal government can’t just hold their noses and wait for voters to realize that democracy is better than autocracy.
The American Federation of Musicians’ fund will reduce benefits for an estimated 20,000 of its 80,000 members due to stresses caused by the 2008 financial crisis — and a steadily aging membership.
In her Netflix mini-series When They See Us, DuVernay tells the story of five innocent teens who were pressured into falsely confessing to the 1989 assault and rape of a white jogger in Central Park.
We Build the Wall, a non-profit organization funding construction of a section of border wall near Sunland Park, N.M., said Thursday that they had 10 other sites picked out for more wall construction.
Inslee says the policies he’s enacted in his state on the environment, the economy and health care are the same progressive actions he’d take if elected president.
Randall Park and Ali Wong star in a Netflix romantic comedy about two young friends who grow up and grow apart, only to find each other again as adults. Also, there’s Keanu Reeves.
Eight co-champions are taking home the 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee Cup after a record-breaking and exhausting night that ended in the 20th round.
In a statement issued late Thursday, President Trump said a first round of tariffs will be 5% and will rise to 10% on July 1. The penalties could reach 25% by October.
The document dump Thursday offers a detailed view of the case that investigators had crafted against the Empire actor, only to see prosecutors to drop those charges in a move that frustrated police.
The charges filed Thursday in Cook County, Ill. are more serious than those filed against the singer in February. Four of the charges each carry a potential sentence of up to 30 years in prison.
CDC officials warned that if the current rate of outbreaks continues, the virus may lose its status as eliminated in the U.S.
Cochran used his considerable influence, including serving as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, to direct billions of dollars to Mississippi.
The attorney general told CBS that the Justice Department does not forbid a special counsel to state whether a sitting president should be indicted. Robert Mueller had said that wasn’t an option.
Local singer/songwriter Jessica Pounds is working on a new solo album. She performed her new song “Howl at the Moon” on Thursday’s First Coast Connect with Melissa Ross.
The Walt Disney Co., NBCUniversal and Netflix are concerned that the rights of people working on productions in the Southern state could be restricted. The move threatens a booming industry.
The modified fungus produces spider toxin that rapidly kills mosquitoes, raising hopes for a new weapon to fight a disease that sickens millions. But not everyone is convinced.
Nosrat is that rare thing: a woman of color in the upper echelons of the hypercompetitive food world. She is acutely aware of her unicorn status — and taking steps to try to change that.
A deceased redistricting specialist’s documents suggest the citizenship question was added to redraw political maps to favor Republicans and non-Hispanic white people, according to a new court filing.
Calling capital punishment “archaic, costly, discriminatory and violent,” state Sen. Melanie Levesque, a Democrat, said the time has come to end it. Twenty-one states have discarded the death penalty.
Lawyer Gareth Peirce told the court in London that the WikiLeaks founder was “not very well.” The U.S. is pursuing criminal charges against Assange, including a violation of the Espionage Act.
Derek Rotondo filed a class-action complaint against his employer for offering more paid parental leave to women than to men. On Thursday, the bank announced it settled the case.
The smaller boat was carrying 35 people — 33 tourists and a Hungarian crew of two. All seven of the dead are South Korean tourists. Divers searched the Danube River for the missing.
Victims of sexual misconduct by nuns say there hasn’t yet been a reckoning for their claims. In part, that’s because reports on allegations of abuse by women are treated differently than those by men.
“Time is not on our side,” opposition leader Juan Guaidó told NPR in an interview in Caracas on Wednesday. “Time is running against all Venezuelans.”
In 2016, almost half of all in-person voters checked in to their polling place electronically. There are no federal regulations for the technology they used.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi continues to stress that Democrats will conduct investigations and pursue facts before opening potential impeachment proceedings.
In the 1980s, ACT UP demanded action from the U.S. government and got results with drama. AIDS activists today have fresh tactics for their new goal: a more affordable HIV prevention pill.
The world’s most widely used weed killer was once seen as one of the safest pesticides. Now it is blamed for causing cancer. Yet the scientific evidence remains disputed.
