In the hottest year on record, the fingerprints of a changing climate in a warming world were all over dozens of extreme weather events. There wouldn’t be weather without heat; heat is energy, and ...

Health care spending in the US reached $4.9 trillion and increased 7.5 percent in 2023, growing from a rate of 4.6 percent in 2022. In 2023, the insured share of the population reached 92.5 percent, ...

Last year was the hottest ever recorded, according to temperature data going back to 1850. And it beat the previous record by a wide margin, according to new data released by the European Union's ...

The U.S. labor market ended the year strong, creating more than 200,000 jobs in the last month of the year and nearly 2.7 million jobs in all of 2023, when seasonally adjusted. Consumer spending ...

There was a spike in deadly shark attacks reported globally in 2023, with one country bearing the brunt of incidents, a new report shows. The overall number of fatal incidents last year remained ...

Record cocaine production and high demand for the drug contributed to criminal violence across Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023, as traffickers established new routes to bypass increasing ...

With 2023 now firmly behind us, the automakers have started to release their end of year financial sales figures. It's a good time to see which models did the best and the worst for their shareholder ...

It's never too early to start planning for the upcoming tax season by getting organized. Before filing, it's important to know 2023 changes that could affect your tax liability. "You really need to be ...

Tommy Simmons Jr. stands by the place near 37th Street and Prospect Avenue where his son, Ahmad Simmons, was shot and killed on April 15. Ahmad is the city's 51st homicide victim of 2023. Kansas City, ...

Texas has been named Business Facilities’ 2023 State of the Year, the magazine’s annual recognition of a robust business-friendly environment, including legislation and incentives, workforce ...

Africa's coastlines are under growing threat as sea levels climb faster than ever, driven by decades of global warming caused by human activity, natural climate cycles, and warming ocean waters.