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There are 87 fewer billionaires on this year's list than in 2021, and their total wealth dipped by $400 billion, Forbes reported.

Images of dead civilians in the streets of Bucha shocked the world and intensified concerns of Russian war crimes in Ukraine. Officials want more military aid, and bigger consequences for Russia.

China's lockdown and quarantine policy is testing the limits of the city of 26 million. Parents were separated from kids. And there's not enough staff for the elderly residents of care centers.

The Biden administration extended the freeze on student loan payments yet again, this time until September, and announced a reset for borrowers in default.

The new infrastructure legislation makes money available to remove potentially poisonous pipes around the country. In Flint, Mich., mistrust runs deeper than the plumbing does.

The U.S. joined the European Union and Group of Seven nations in enacting new sanctions on Russia in response to the civilian toll reported in Bucha and elsewhere in Ukraine in recent days.

Three detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp took their own lives early Saturday. Two were from Saudi Arabia, a third from Yemen. All three hanged themselves, and left suicide notes written in Arabic.

Four Connecticut librarians spoke bitterly Tuesday about a months' long gag order they were subjected to after the FBI requested patrons' records under the Patriot Act. The librarians decried their inability to participate in congressional debate on how to rewrite the act.

Each year an estimated 90,000 people die after picking-up a bacterial infection in a hospital. Now, some states are developing consumer report cards to rank hospitals according to their infection rates.

The songwriter slammed what he described as a "culture" of baseless lawsuits intended to squeeze money out of artists eager to avoid the expense of a trial.