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Life expectancy fell by nearly two years between 2018 and 2020, largely due to COVID-19. Declines were most pronounced among minority groups, including Black and Hispanic people.

People are leaving their jobs in search of more money, more flexibility and more happiness. A record 4 million workers quit just in April.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the pandemic presented a historic threat.

Britney Spears asks a judge to end her conservatorship, saying she is being exploited, bullied and feeling "left out and alone." Read a transcript of the singer's remarks at Wednesday's hearing.

The policy would allow transgender and gender-expansive students to use names and pronouns outside their legal names. The teacher said doing so violates his religious beliefs.

President Biden says there needs to be a new push to register and educate voters, and new pressure on the Senate to pass a bill. Vice President Harris will lead his charge for voting rights.

The two space probes will study Venus, a scorching hot world that may have once been like Earth. NASA chose the Venus missions over other candidates, such as trips to the moons of Jupiter and Neptune.

William Jay Sydeman, once called “the most played composer of his generation” by the New York Times, died suddenly and peacefully in his bed at home in…

A bankruptcy judge cleared a plan for final vote by creditors of Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, that would release the Sacklers and their financial empire from liability for the opioid crisis.

It's as dry as it's been in a century in parts of Washington and Oregon. Some farmers are watching their crops fail, while others are selling cattle because they don't have the grass to feed it.