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U.S. employers added 236,000 jobs in March as hiring slowed from the previous month. Unemployment dipped to 3.5%, from 3.6% in February.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is intervening on behalf of 6,000 homeowners with VA loans who are in the foreclosure process. Many more are delinquent. The move follows an investigation by NPR.

Why didn't more buildings fall during the magnitude 7.6 earthquake that struck Japan this week?

It was a deadly combination: Winter jet streams collided with warm and moist air. Twisters flattened subdivisions in Washington, Ill., and tore through farming communities. The destruction spread to other states across the upper Midwest. Six deaths have been reported in Illinois, two in Michigan.

Feeling Unified, New Mexico Delegates Head Home–Associated PressNew Mexico's Republican delegates are heading home from Cleveland with a sense that their…

The man on the left in a widely circulated surveillance image is 24-year-old Najim Laachraoui, according to the Belgian federal prosecutor's office.

In a recent national survey, nearly 80 percent of women living in rural areas reported having experienced sexual intercourse by age 18, compared with 68.6 percent of women in cities.

California and Washington passed stricter gun control measures, Nebraska and Oklahoma both passed measures backing the death penalty, and Colorado became the sixth state to legalize assisted suicide.

The Sitpack is a compact seat shaped like a monopod that fits in your pocket when folded up. Creator Jonas Lind-Bendixen says the product could be used during travel or while waiting at a concert.

Wendy Jackson, a pediatric emergency doctor, is working through the coronavirus crisis. Her husband, Robert, had a kidney transplant four years ago. They keep 6 to 8 feet between themselves at home.