The Vacuum, Collection, Holding and Transfer sewage system on USS Gerald R. Ford was developed for cruise ships, but maybe ...

The Houston Texans escaped on Sunday, barely. They nearly lost a miserable game to the lowly Las Vegas Raiders. It would've been a crushing blow to the Texans' playoff chances. In the end, they pulled ...

Economists on Thursday warned that a big drop in November inflation had more to do with data challenges caused by the government shutdown than with actual changes in the economy. Unfortunately, those ...

The best way to fix Americans’ cost-of-living problem is to give workers bigger raises, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said last week. The problem: That solution looks broken, too. The US job ...

President Donald Trump has a fresh chance this week to act on a priority voters continually say they want fixed — but over which he’s in denial. The high and rising prices of health care, groceries ...

Financial and social incentives can nudge doctors away from the operating room. By Sarah Kliff and Bianca Pallaro Sarah Kliff reported from Rochester, N.Y. Bianca Pallaro analyzed historical C-section ...

In “Straight Talk with Rick and Jal,” Harvard University’s Jal Mehta and I examine the reforms and enthusiasms that permeate education. In a field full of buzzwords, our goal is simple: Tell the truth ...

Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to unnecessary C-sections. But it’s used in nearly every birth because of business and legal concerns, The Times found. Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to ...

On Tuesday, November 4, Zohran Mamdani clinched the election for mayor of New York City, capturing just over 50 percent of the vote in a four-way race. Mamdani, a member of the New York State Assembly ...

With their addition to spending and subservience to public-sector unions, California lawmakers have ignored the state’s debt crisis. In particular, the Legislature has basically shrugged as unfunded ...

Scientists in China have developed a new chip, with a twist: it's analog, meaning it performs calculations on its own physical circuits rather than via the binary 1s and 0s of standard digital ...

NEW ORLEANS — A multimillion-dollar deficit, lack of communication about spending, and an unexpectedly expensive year have landed the City of New Orleans in financial trouble. As panic has grown at ...