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The McKinney Fire killed four people and destroyed homes, including this mobile home park in rural Northern California earlier this month.

Inflation makes recovery from California fires and other disasters more difficult

Extreme weather events made worse by climate change are hitting some of the poorest parts of the United States hard. Recovery will be extra difficult at a time of high inflation.

Northvolt battery plant in Skelleftea, Sweden.

Sweden's Northvolt wants to rival China's battery dominance to power electric cars

Northvolt's CEO says the key driver behind the startup is to make Europe self-efficient and less reliant on China for supplies.

The pandemic upended K-12 education. Some teachers caution against a return to “normal.”

Don’t get us wrong — COVID-19 has generally made being a teacher or a student or a parent in the K-12 system way harder. But when schools first shut their…

Elizabeth and Nick Woodruff of Binghamton, New York, were sued for nearly $10,000 by the hospital where Nick's infected leg was amputated.

Sick and struggling to pay, 100 million people in the U.S. live with medical debt

The U.S. health system now produces debt on a mass scale, a new investigation shows. Patients face gut-wrenching sacrifices.

Stateside for Friday, March 4, 2016

The Republican presidential candidates debated in Detroit last night. U.S. Rep. John Moolenaar, a Republican from Michigan’s 4th district, joined…

Staci Cowan has been a certified recovery mentor at Bridges to Change for the past three years, most recently working at its drop-in center called Club Hope.

Oregon has funding for addiction recovery programs, but not enough employees

The state of Oregon is channeling millions of dollars into addiction recovery programs due to a law that passed in 2020. But the state is having trouble finding the workforce to fill these jobs.

After Frankie Cook's car accident on a wet road outside Rome, Ga., her father, Russell (right), got a lawyer's letter saying they owed a hospital emergency room more than $17,000 for scans and an exam to see if she had a concussion.

They were turned away from urgent care. The reason? Their car insurance

Russell Cook expected a quick, inexpensive visit to an urgent care center for his daughter after a car wreck. She wasn't badly hurt, but they were sent to an emergency room — for a much larger bill.

What you need to know about lead in your garden

Drinking lead-tainted water is out of the question, as is cooking with it and bathing in it. But what about gardening? Is it safe to water your garden…

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland speaks with reporters on Feb. 15 about visiting several communities and sites in Mississippi to honor individuals and events that advanced the civil rights movement.

The U.S. looks to replace a derogatory name used hundreds of times on federal lands

The Department of the Interior wants the public to comment on name replacements for the more than 660 geographic features that contain a racial slur referring to Native Americans.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. government has assessed that Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine, attacking civilian points such as this school destroyed in Kharkiv.

U.S. officially declares that Russian forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine

"Based on information currently available, the U.S. government assesses that members of Russia's forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.

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