Americans

Large majorities say the U.S. is going in the wrong direction, that they are falling behind economically and that political polarization will continue.

Rural Americans are dying of Covid at more than twice the rate of their urban counterparts — a divide that health experts say is likely to widen as access to medical care shrinks for a population that tends to be older, sicker, heavier, poorer and less vaccinated.

President Biden gave an update Friday on the evacuation of Americans and American allies from Afghanistan.

Americans love tidy endings to their stories, but the coronavirus pandemic isn’t offering them that.

This past week, Americans watched as the hallowed chambers of the Capitol were overrun and defiled, not by some foreign enemy of democracy but a mob of their fellow citizens

Tens of millions of people are expected to travel to family gatherings or winter vacations over Christmas, despite pleas by public health experts who fear the result could be another surge in COVID-19 cases.

Triple A estimates that 34 million fewer Americans will travel for Christmas the New Year holiday given the surge in coronavirus cases. Three-quarters of the country plans to stay home, AAA estimated.

Maybe people have COVID fatigue, maybe people just miss seeing other people. The reasons aren’t clear. But nearly half of Americans surveyed say they feel that it’s safe enough to travel more now than they did three months ago.  In fact, 28% of Americans will hit the road on Sunday, which is the busiest departure day of the year....

How was a microscopic virus able to bring the world’s richest and most powerful country to its knees?

Halfway through a very unsettling year, Americans are marking the 244th anniversary of their nation’s birth in a land of confusion.

A new poll finds that strong concern about a second wave of coronavirus infections is reinforcing widespread opposition among Americans to reopening public places

Labor economist Teresa Ghilarducci began studying retirement in 2008, when the Great Recession was making it impossible for millions of Americans to retire. “The phenomenon of Granny working in McDonald’s really started to ramp up,” said Ghilarducci, who leads the Retirement Equity Lab at The New School in New York.  Yet, as bad as it was then, she sees the current Covid-19 recession...

As the coronavirus spread across the world and began its reach into the United States, an assortment of Americans turned to one notion as they framed the emerging cataclysm.

Leaders and influential people are saying to Americans that they’re all in this together

Kids around the country are using chalk to spread positive messages on the sidewalk.

Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings on Saturday invited President Donald Trump and other Americans to Baltimore, taking the high road after a barrage of presidential tweets disparaging the black-majority city and its long-serving Democratic congressman.

President Donald Trump stood by his demands for funding for a border wall Sunday as another round of shutdown talks failed to break an impasse, while newly empowered House Democrats planned to step up the pressure on Trump and Republican lawmakers by passing legislation this week to reopen parts of the government. Trump, who spent part of the day at...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a northern Chinese port city and pledged his continuing commitment to denuclearization ahead of his expected summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, state media said Tuesday. The meeting Monday and Tuesday in Dalian is the second between Xi and Kim in recent weeks, following Kim’s March visit...

President Donald Trump spoke to reporters before heading off to the NRA convention on Friday, sounding off on his newest attorney, former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani; Robert Mueller’s probe into possible Russian interference during the 2016 election and his future plans for North Korea.

Andreas Wellinger took the gold medal after nailing a jump of 113.5 meters.