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This file picture taken on March 9, 2011 shows a driver after refueling at a gas station. A proposed rollback for fuel economy standards would lead to motorists spending more on gas.

Weaker fuel economy standards means more money spent on gas

June 1, 2019 at 2:10 a.m.

The Environmental Protection Agency on August 2 announced a plan to weaken fuel economy standards put in place under the Obama administration. The new plan would freeze fuel economy standards...

American toddlers are still shooting people on a weekly basis this year

American toddlers are still finding guns, shooting people on a weekly basis

June 2, 2018 at 5:10 a.m.

On Wednesday two 3-year-old boys were shot by another toddler who found and inadvertently fired a gun at the home of their babysitter in Dearborn, Michigan, according to the Detroit...

Teen marijuana use hits 20-year low, defying legalization opponents’ predictions

June 2, 2018 at 2:49 p.m.

In 2016, rates of marijuana use among the nation's 12- to 17-year-olds dropped to their lowest level in more than two decades, according to federal survey data released this week....

Letting teens sleep in would save the country roughly $9 billion a year

June 2, 2018 at 4:17 p.m.

The United States would realize roughly $9 billion a year in economic gains by instituting a simple, nationwide policy change: starting public school classes no earlier than 8:30 a.m. That's...

Under 50? You still haven’t hit rock bottom, happiness-wise.

June 2, 2018 at 6:53 p.m.

"This is the worst day of my life," Bart Simpson complains at one point in the Simpsons movie. "The worst day of your life so far," Homer gently corrects. What's...

Study: One in eight American adults are alcoholics

June 2, 2018 at 11:54 p.m.

A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry this month finds that the rate alcohol use disorder, or what's colloquially known as "alcoholism," rose by a shocking 49 percent in the...

Smoking pot does relax you, scientists say. But is that a good thing?

June 3, 2018 at 2:16 a.m.

Recreational marijuana use is now legal in eight states plus the District of Columbia, giving public health researchers more leeway than ever to investigate some of the foundational underpinnings of...

The entire coal industry employs fewer people than Arby’s

June 5, 2018 at 9:19 a.m.

"My action today is the latest in a series of steps to create American jobs and to grow American wealth," President Trump said earlier this week before a group of...

More Americans are working from home than ever before.

The American commute is worse today than it’s ever been

June 5, 2018 at 8:14 p.m.

New numbers from Gallup show that remote work is becoming more common. Workers today are more likely to spend at least part of their time working apart from their colleagues....

A muslim man prays in the street before a rally against President Donald Trump's immigration policies on January 27, 2017 in New York City.

Trump says sanctuary cities are hotbeds of crime. Data say the opposite.

August 21, 2019 at 9:54 p.m.

The so-called "sanctuary cities" that Donald Trump has repeatedly characterized as incubators of crime are generally safer than other cities, according to a new analysis of FBI crime data. There's...

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