California is nothing if not a land of contrast. It is a state of astounding economic might, yet it carries the highest poverty rate in the nation. It has more residents on the Forbes 400 list of ...

The American Dream has never felt further out of reach. And it’s not just because the house with the white-picket fence and the nanny to care for the children are unaffordable. They’re also, for many, ...

That’s because, on October 27, AI-powered recruiting startup Mercor announced it had raised funding from a handful of blue chip investors at a $10 billion valuation—enough to make its three cofounders ...

As Congress cuts healthcare access to pay for tax cuts and poor Americans die earlier, billionaires invest in anti-ageing ...

President Trump on Tuesday more than doubled the list of countries subject to his travel ban or to heavy restrictions, bringing the total number of nations affected by the sweeping set of immigration ...

Job Alert: Raleigh is No. 2 in country for rich millennials Federal judge blocks Whitmer from shutting down submerged Great Lakes pipeline Steven Spielberg’s "Disclosure Day" drop has everyone saying ...

For years, rumors swirled about where his wealth came from. A Times investigation reveals the truth of how a college dropout clawed his way to the pinnacle of American finance and society. Jeffrey ...

Elie Hassenfeld, the chief executive of the nonprofit GiveWell, makes the case for a more rigorous, transparent and accountable approach to charitable giving. This is an edited transcript of an ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. These highlights were written by the reporters and editors ...

A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of aging. The worst consequences of this demographic shift, per the World Bank, are economic. Soon the shrinking working population in the U.S., Canada, or ...

Cancer has, for many years, been widely viewed as a rich man’s disease prevalent in high-income countries, with antimicrobial resistance and infectious diseases long considered the world’s top health ...

The State Department is so far refusing to comment on a growing corruption crisis engulfing the Balkan nation of Albania, a vital U.S. ally in the region. Following an Albanian court’s decision to ...