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The U.S. unemployment rate surged far higher and has remained higher than in other major industrial countries. It's now at 9.6 percent. The big shift came when American companies cut workers more aggressively than foreign firms in the face of the financial crisis.

Marijuana laws have been liberalized in more than a dozen states, and in California, medical marijuana dispensaries are common. But that doesn't mean pot use is on the rise. According to government data, Americans who admit to using pot have been at about 6 percent since 2002.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) after the Supreme Court rejected state attempts to remove Donald Trump from presidential primary ballots over his role in the Jan. 6 attack.

Spending on campaign ads is up $1 billion from four years ago, according to data from AdImpact, analyzed by NPR. The state that's been the target of the most money is Pennsylvania.

Test your skills, strategy and luck while learning how to play Mahjong at these eight places around Dallas-Fort Worth.

Over the last 6 months the Trump Administration has clamped down on international student visas. That's created delays for accepted students. Now, they arrive on campuses for the start of the new school year.

Now that the government shutdown is over, federal number crunchers are back at work. It could take time, though, to make up for the jobs reports and inflation scorecards we missed in the last 6 weeks.

The court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines that the First Amendment bars Colorado from "forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees."

Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto, whose beguiling rendition of "The Girl From Ipanema" made her world famous, has died at 83. (Story aired on All Things Considered on June 6, 2023.)