The coronavirus pandemic forced a near-total shutdown of school buildings in the spring of 2020—an historic upheaval of K-12 schooling in the United States. Education Week tracked and documented the ...

US health care spending increased 9.7 percent to reach $4.1 trillion in 2020, a much faster rate than the 4.3 percent increase seen in 2019. The acceleration in 2020 was due to a 36.0 percent increase ...

The death rate from alcohol use rose sharply in the United States in the first year of the pandemic. From 2019 to 2020, the rate of alcohol-induced deaths climbed 26 percent, from 10.4 per 100,000 ...

There were nearly 1,000 more hate crimes committed in 2020 and over 2,800 more victims compared to 2019, with 63% of last year’s hate crime offenses related to race, ethnicity or ancestry biases, ...

2019-2020 Friday, September 27, 2019 Last day to secure a Closed Section Override (Full Term and Part of Term A) 2019-2020 Friday, September 27, 2019 Last day to Add/Drop a course with Academic ...

Americans have made many changes in their lives since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and for some this has even extended to the choice of where their babies are born. While the total number of U.S.

The severe, devastating wildfires that raged across southeastern Australia in late 2019 and early 2020 packed a powerful punch that extended far beyond the country, two new studies find. Meteorologist ...

New government data puts in stark relief how dramatically telehealth use exploded last year, with the share of Medicare visits conducted virtually skyrocketing from just 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7 ...

The deadline for late-filing penalty relief for 2019 and 2020 tax returns is Sept. 30, a date the IRS reaffirmed Friday. “We thought carefully about the type of penalties, the period covered, and the ...

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a worldwide pandemic. The NBA suspended its 2019-2020 season and a day later, the NCAA canceled March Madness. Actor Tom Hanks and ...