Health care spending in the US reached $4.9 trillion and increased 7.5 percent in 2023, growing from a rate of 4.6 percent in 2022. In 2023, the insured share of the population reached 92.5 percent, ...

Religious groups faced harassment in 192 of 198 countries and territories, matching a previous high from 2022.

The personal consumption expenditures price index was expected to show a 4.1% annual increase.

Record cocaine production and high demand for the drug contributed to criminal violence across Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023, as traffickers established new routes to bypass increasing ...

The U.S. labor market ended the year strong, creating more than 200,000 jobs in the last month of the year and nearly 2.7 million jobs in all of 2023, when seasonally adjusted. Consumer spending ...

There was a spike in deadly shark attacks reported globally in 2023, with one country bearing the brunt of incidents, a new report shows. The overall number of fatal incidents last year remained ...

Last year was the hottest ever recorded, according to temperature data going back to 1850. And it beat the previous record by a wide margin, according to new data released by the European Union's ...