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Every Jan. 1, states across the country implement new laws. Some groundbreaking new laws address Internet user privacy and the classification of contract workers in California, for example.

Live on YouTube, Bob Boilen and Rita Houston will watch their favorites entries to the 2020 Contest and discuss what made them stand out from the thousands we saw this year.

U.S. cases have been rising sharply since the middle of September, when the daily rate was hovering around 40,000 cases.

Joe Biden now has 16 additional electoral votes in his column. In one of the biggest upsets of the 2016 election, Trump won Michigan by just under 11,000 votes.

Mississippi and Louisiana were hardest hit by the storms that were part of a band of severe weather stretching across the entire southeast of the country.

In its ruling Thursday, the European Court of Justice found that the agreement known as Privacy Shield fails to adequately protect Europeans' data, largely because of U.S. surveillance programs.

With school choice programs ascendant not just in Iowa but across the U.S., Cedar Rapids offers a preview of who wins and who loses when education meets the free market.

White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx said Saturday that New York, Louisiana and Detroit remain the main hot spots but emerging are Colorado, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.

When I arrive at Arroyo Viejo Park in East Oakland, the neighborhood looks more like the French Quarter in New Orleans. Sounds from the band MJ’s Brass…

Sax great Gerry Mulligan (1927-1996) born this day.Today is Friday, April 6, 2018 the 96th day of the year with 269 days remaining.Sunrise: 6:47am Sunset:…

If you live on $1.90 a day or less, the World Bank says you are extremely poor. Two new poverty lines offer a way to measure poverty in middle income countries.

While Susan Straight reflects on far more than her own upbringing in her memoir, she brings her trademark lyricism and a significant dose of humility to these pieces of the book.