Tesla CEO Elon Musk , right, co-chair of the newly announced Department of Government Efficiency, carries his son on his shoulders at the U.S. Capitol following a meeting with businessman…
Junk food, drug use and health policy decisions have affected U.S. life expectancy rates. (Photo by Alexander Spatari/Getty Images) After large drops during the pandemic, life expectancy in the United…
Sen. Chris Elliott, R-Josephine, speaks on the floor of the Alabama Senate on May 6, 2024 at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Alabama. Elliott has filed a bill for the…
The debate over the debt limit will likely flare tensions between centrist and far-right Republicans the closer the country gets to the real deadline sometime later in the year. (Photo…
Nursing students at Midlands Technical College participate in classroom simulations as part of their college coursework. (provided by SC Technical College System) COLUMBIA — Some 19,000 South Carolina high school…
A law signed in 2023 caps out-of-pocket costs for insulin, asthma inhalers, and epinephrine injectors beginning Jan. 1. (Photo Illustration by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Health insurance rules capping monthly out-of-pocket…
Jan. 1, 1960 Jackie Robinson with the Brppklyn Dodgers, 1954. Credit: Photo by Bob Sandberg (Courtesy: Library of Congress) Nearly 1,000 Black protesters marched 10 miles through the rain and…
New Jersey’s minimum wage rose by roughly 2% to $15.49 under the first indexing adjustment to the state’s wage floor. (Photo by New Jersey Monitor) New Jersey’s hourly minimum wage…
Sunset on the Chesapeake Bay. Photo courtesy The Nature Conservancy. At the dawn of the year, with hope in the air, Marylanders dreamed of a future so fair. Clean energy…
A LiDAR sensor from technology company Ouster, shown in an intersection in Colorado, uses a laser to create anonymous 3-D models of the people and vehicles at street level. (Photo…