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Shelling out dough at the grocery store can often feel painful. But Americans on average actually spend far less on food relative to their income than they did 50 years ago.

Stories pile up about real-life activity linked to Russian influence-mongers, senators pitch new law on digital political ads and committee hearing postponed for Trump's longtime personal lawyer.

Oncologists would receive a set fee for certain cancers under this plan, which is being tested at five participating practices. Proponents say that this new strategy aims to identify the best medicines and cut back on profits doctors make by dispensing in-office chemotherapy drugs.

Washington, D.C., and its surrounding suburbs were spared the worst of the economic downturn. Federal spending and contracting remained strong, even during the darkest days of the recession. But with the government shutdown, is the region going to take a hit? That depends a lot on how long the shutdown lasts and whether you can make up the money after it ends.

Fossil fuel demand will peak and renewable energy will grow rapidly in coming years, according to an International Energy Agency report.

Jason Dalton, who police believe killed six people in a series of shootings late Saturday night, was also charged with two counts of assault with intent to commit murder and eight firearms charges.

For online insurance brokers, selling health insurance through the Affordable Care Act presents a new opportunity — and a new competitor. It's unclear who will come out ahead: the businesses, with more experience, or the feds, who won't charge commissions.

On June 17, 2015, twelve members of the historically black Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina welcomed a young white man to their evening Bible study. He arrived with a pistol, 88 bullets, and hopes of starting a race war. Dylann Roof’s massacre of nine innocents during their closing prayer horrified the nation. Two days later, some relatives of the dead stood at Roof’s hearing and said, “I forgive you.” That grace offered the country a hopeful ending to an awful story. But for the survivors and victims’ families, the journey had just begun.

In his new novel, Raptors in the Ricelands, Ron Daise unfolds a story in a twenty-first century fictional community near Georgetown, SC - a story which reveals family secrets and conflicts that challenge cultural beliefs. Conveyed in four acts and with chapter names that follow the production stages of Carolina Gold Rice, the novel spans the future, the present, and the past, and fosters a message of connection with African diasporic communities around the globe.

“C” is for Chapman, Martha Marshall, II (b. 1949). Musician. Classified by many as a country-music artist, Martha Marshall Chapman,II, and her style nonetheless have been difficult to categorize.