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The National Urban League's new "State of Black America" report finds that African-Americans are still struggling to find jobs, but there's plenty they can do to recover from the recession.

There was a mass shooting in Tulsa, Okla. The Biden administration forgives nearly $6 billion in student loans linked to defunct Corinthian Colleges. Inflation has more people turning to food banks.

Billions of dollars are headed to state and local governments to address the opioid crisis. If the federal government fails to oversee how the money is spent, advocates worry it will be wasted.

Without federal support, American communities will struggle to deal with a challenge as pervasive as climate change, market analysts and environmental advocates say.

Two American citizens were arrested in connection with the assassination of the Haitian President. New COVID-19 hotspots emerge. And, Biden vows to stick to his plan to end America's longest war.

As the delta variant takes over in the U.S., new, localized outbreaks are emerging. Those surges are likely driven by pockets of dangerously low vaccination rates.

Dr. David Fowler disputed the conclusion by the Hennepin County medical examiner that "homicide" was the manner of George Floyd's death. The defense witness said the manner was "undetermined."

Lawmakers are pushing for a "do-over" of an Interior Department contract to review tribal jail deaths awarded to a former official. Nearly half of the deaths he was to review occurred on his watch.

Over 10 years ago, the writer Wills Glasspiegel heard an album by Ahmed Janka Nabay at random, beginning a friendship that changed both their lives and helped to spread an electrifying form of music.

Krasinski says he's thankful for his big break "every single day." Three years after the wrap of The Office, he continues to branch out. He's now directing and co-starring in the film The Hollars.

That night, history arrived without much of a warning. Johnson's speech delivered such a shock that some who first heard the news the following day thought it had to be an April Fools' joke.

Victor Hugo wrote Notre Dame de Paris, or The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in the 19th century to draw attention to the cathedral, which had fallen into neglect and disrepair. It worked.