The unemployment rate fell from 3.9% to 3.8%, the Labor Department said Friday ... 82 points to 38,679 and the S&P 500 index climbed 0.54% to 5,174. Last month, health care and social assistance ...

Worldwide, there are on average about 16 major earthquakes in any given year, 15 in the magnitude 7.0 range and one 8.0 or greater ... damage increasing up to an X, where the shaking would ...

1 Day GE 0.07% DJIA -1.73% S&P 500 -1.33% Industrial Goods -0.48% The Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio, a key valuation measure, is calculated by dividing the stock's most recent closing price by the ...

South Carolina has collected about $1.8 billion in a bank account over the past decade — and doesn't know where the money came from or where it was supposed to go. "It's like going into your ...

Planet or Plastic? is National Geographic’s multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic trash crisis. Come to this page often to learn more, and find out what you can do to ...

More than five trillion pieces of plastic are already in the oceans, and by 2050 there will be more plastic in the sea than fish, by weight, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Some 8 ...

The woman carrying the red ... five plastic grocery bags stuffed with plastic trash, Jambeck says, sitting on every foot of coastline around the world—that would correspond to about 8.8 million ...

Gold acts as a hedge against inflation and economic turmoil, which can make it a smart investment for many people. That's because, as currencies lose value over time, whether it's due to high ...

1 Day X -2.32% DJIA 0.69% S&P 500 1.20% Basic Materials/Resources 0.49% The Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio, a key valuation measure, is calculated by dividing the stock's most recent closing price ...

A 4.8-magnitude earthquake shook ... City’s Brooklyn borough said on X that the back-to-back quakes mean New York should be called “California 2.0,” a reference to the Golden State’s ...