Inflation cooled a bit last month as gasoline and grocery prices fell. Consumer prices in July were up 3.4% from a year ago, according to a report Wednesday from the Labor Department. That's a smaller ...

Earlier this summer, on a trip to northeastern Brazil, I visited somewhere unlike anywhere I've been before. A four-hour bus ride from the steamy tropical city of São Luis took me to Barreirinhas, a ...

In 2007, Dr. Raj Panjabi, a physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, traveled to Liberia, where he was born. He had just been married and brought the $6,000 he had raised from wedding ...

Zhu Rongji, former premier of China, has died at age 97. The cause of death was given as illness, according to state media. Zhu, an acerbic technocrat and a trained engineer, was renowned for ...

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The exercise can help you identify what's wasting your time — and make room for what matters, says psychotherapist Niro Feliciano. Take a moment to try it. You might be surprised with what you find.

Federal efforts to revive uranium mining in the West and decrease reliance on Russian uranium raise concerns about drinking water for tribal communities reckoning with the industry's deadly legacy.

On a recent Monday morning in Braham, Minn., a local water operator made an unsettling discovery — the pump at the treatment plant wasn't working, threatening the flow of water to people's homes.

Change sprawls constantly across the storefronts on the postcard streets of downtown Ridgewood, New Jersey. The big avenue, East Ridgewood, cuts across streets called Walnut, Chestnut and Oak, and ...

If you ask an AI chatbot for advice on how to revive your wilted tomato plant or for a movie recommendation, even a bad answer has pretty low stakes. Not true when your money is on the line. Still, ...

A 600-mile journey along the shores of Nigeria, Togo, Ghana and Ivory Coast reveals one of the world's most consequential transformations.

Voters in half a dozen states went to the polls Tuesday. The results highlight the ongoing conflicts within both parties ahead of the November midterms. Democratic primaries in Wisconsin, Minnesota ...