A lot of research has been done on the outcomes of young children who receive care in early education programs across the country. High-quality early childhood education programs positively shape young children’s development. Far less research has focused on the early childhood workforce that powers these programs.

We set out to ...Read more

Americans at all wealth levels are more likely to die sooner than their European counterparts, with even the richest U.S. citizens living shorter lives than northern and western Europeans. That is the key finding of our new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

We also found that while the wealthiest Americans live ...Read more

China retaliated to new tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump, announcing it would raise duties on U.S. goods to 84%, deepening a trade war between the world’s largest economies.

The latest Chinese countermeasures are effective April 10, according to a government statement Wednesday. China’s move came hours after Trump’s sweeping ...Read more

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is used to weathering storms over almost three decades in and out of power — and is starting to flex his muscles again after a recent run of adversity.

Bolstered by a right-wing ruling coalition that’s held firm throughout the war in Gaza and simmering tensions with Iran, the Israeli leader has ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's ruling allowing the Trump administration to continue deporting immigrants under an 18th century wartime law was hailed as a victory by both the federal government and those challenging the deportations.

The high court left many questions about the law unanswered, experts said, which explains, in part, the ...Read more

When Veronica Sanchez called a Social Security hotline Thursday, she waited two hours before her call was abruptly disconnected.

On Friday, she was on hold for six hours and still did not get through to anyone.

“I’m gonna have to take time out of my work to stand in line and hopefully get this resolved,” the 52-year-old medical practice ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams’ office issued an executive order late Tuesday allowing ICE agents to operate on Rikers Island — a move sought by President Donald Trump’s administration that comes on the heels of his Justice Department securing a dismissal of the mayor’s federal corruption indictment.

Adams first said on Feb. 13 he would ...Read more

Trump administration officials have described the men deported to El Salvador prisons last month as “the worst of the worst,” suggesting they were gang members involved in murder, rape and kidnapping.

The reality is that of 238 migrants — mostly Venezuelan — that officials accused of belonging to the Tren de Aragua gang and expelled to...Read more

Alarmed by President Donald Trump's unprecedented effort to punish law firms he doesn't like, UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky emailed nearly 200 fellow law school deans across the country last month, asking them to join him in condemning the attacks.

"The government should not use its enormous power to exact retribution," ...Read more

Road trip! Pack your rations, hiking boots and water bottles.

Join me on a literary tour through four atmospheric mysteries, set in and around our country’s national parks.

A Murder in Zion

First stop is Zion National Park in Utah, where the sun cresting over the mountains bathes rock cliffs in a “ruby light.” In Nicole Maggi’s ...Read more

It’s a holy grail of health care: forcing the industry to reveal prices negotiated between health plans and hospitals — information that had long been treated as a trade secret. And among the flurry of executive orders President Donald Trump signed during his first five weeks back in office was a promise to “Make America Healthy Again” ...Read more

MIAMI -- The rules have changed abruptly for thousands of Cuban migrants in the United States after the Trump administration canceled the humanitarian parole program launched under President Joe Biden.

More than 100,000 Cubans arrived in the U.S. under humanitarian parole. Many have not yet been in the country for a full year and are already ...Read more

CHICAGO — Aaron Sadowski says he knows how to get sober. He just needs help to stay there.

Last year, after getting evicted from an apartment on the near South Side, the 47-year-old found himself homeless for eight months, sleeping on the beach or in cheap hotels and doing whatever it took to afford alcohol and cocaine.

“I could have kept ...Read more

WASHINGTON — “Definitely challenging and interesting” is how Rep. Laura Gillen describes the current moment for congressional newcomers like herself.

Long Island was a rare bright spot for Democrats last fall, as Gillen ousted Republican Anthony D’Esposito in a closely watched rematch, just two years after he had bested her for an open ...Read more

The nation’s historically Black colleges and universities, known as HBCUs, are wondering how to survive in an uncertain and contentious educational climate as the Trump administration downsizes the scope and purpose of the U.S. Department of Education — while cutting away at federal funding for higher education.

In January, President Donald...Read more

MIAMI — The Jewish population in Miami-Dade County has grown by 25% over the last ten years, according to a new study from the Greater Miami Jewish Federation. That growth can be largely attributed to a crop of mostly young under-40 newcomers.

Those are some of the findings from a once-a-decade population survey, called Jewish Miami: A 2024 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Gray whales are dying in large numbers, again.

At least 70 whales have perished since the start of the year in the shallow, protected lagoons of Mexico's Baja California peninsula where the animals have congregated for eons to calf, nurse and breed, said Steven Swartz, a marine scientist who has studied gray whales since 1977. ...Read more

BOSTON — The terms of a plea agreement Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson reached with federal prosecutors raises questions about whether her decision to plead guilty to two public corruption charges could get her deported.

Fernandes Anderson, 46, was born in Cape Verde, and at the age of 10, immigrated to Roxbury. She was the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Police Department has made only incremental progress in addressing a critical shortage of officers following a wave of retirements and resignations, and the police commissioner acknowledged Tuesday that it could take “years of momentum” for staffing levels to rebound.

The department is down about 1,200 ...Read more