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Former Vice President Joe Biden vowed that, if elected, his administration would "lead by science." Sen. Bernie Sanders urged President Trump to declare a national emergency.

Since 1970, New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art has not mandated an admission fee. Come March, that will change for out-of-state visitors — but critics haven't accepted the decision quietly.

On Wednesday, New York City passed legislation that caps the number of ride-hailing vehicles for Uber and Lyft. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Wired writer Aarian Marshall about the change.

Education schools are now training teachers how to deal with an active shooter. One expert says it hasn't deterred teachers from applying, but it has changed the profession, for better or worse.

Years ago, retailers had an unofficial agreement: Black Friday would be the start of the shopping season. Then some stores started opening their doors and offering sales on Thanksgiving Day. That created some conflicts between consumerism and turkey consumption and now the pendulum is swinging back again.

The conservative federal judge is just 48 years old and could affect social policy for generations to come if confirmed by the majority-Republican Senate.

The Labor Department likely will report Friday a sharp slowdown in job growth in November as a surge in coronavirus cases weighs on many businesses.

President Trump proposed steep cuts to foreign aid and other programs in his budget for fiscal year 2021. The blueprint is expected to be declared dead on arrival in Congress.

With drug use surging in the past decade and a half, many parents are losing custody of their kids. But is foster care the best solution?

Punch Line, the oldest comedy club San Francisco, may be the next casualty in the city's steady march from bohemian enclave to tech office park. Politicians and comedians are fighting to save it.

The U.S. government says warming ocean temperatures and melting ice have resulted in the "most unprecedented transition in history" in the Arctic, leading to extreme weather events across the globe.

Even a partial government shutdown would leave some 800,000 government workers without pay over the holidays, although many would remain on the job.

The U.S. added 178,000 new jobs in November, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which was about what was expected. However, wages dropped slightly, after an 11-cent gain in October.

Stricken by layoffs in the coal industry, Greene County, Pa., went for Donald Trump this election. Many think he will help the industry, despite disagreeing with some of Trump's rhetoric.

A change in guidelines for lumpectomy surgery in 2014 has already reduced the number of women undergoing additional surgery, including mastectomy, by 16 percent.

In much of the U.S., the housing crash hangover lingers. New tabulation of home price data lets you zoom in on hundreds of metro areas and counties around the country.

New research finds that African-Americans who grow up in harsh environments and have many stressful experiences are much more likely to develop Alzheimer's or some other form of dementia.

Over three years, a campaign urged Howard County, Md., residents to pare back on sugary drinks — through ads, social media, health counseling and changes to what vending machines sold. And it worked.

Despite howls from Democrats about "extraordinary" conduct and "obstruction of justice," the House Intelligence Committee's probe of potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russia goes on.

The president on Tuesday signed an executive order with the intention of helping bring back coal jobs. But clean energy jobs, like solar, have taken off, far outpacing coal.