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As the COVID pandemic faded in 2022, U.S. life expectancy rose by more than a year. But the virus and drug overdoses spurred by fentanyl still took nearly 300,000 lives.

The Federal Reserve is holding interest rates steady for now. What does that mean for mortgage rates and the housing market?

It's been a banner year for women's college basketball. Now, with March Madness upon us, we've talked with some of the star players ready to go big in the NCAA tournament.

Senators who attended a classified intelligence briefing focused on TikTok's influence say the public should get the same information. There's bipartisan support for a vote on a House bill on the app.

For the first time, the media titan was accused in court of knowing about a massive British tabloid-hacking scandal and helping to cover it up. The new leader of The Washington Post was named too.

Police arrested two white supremacist gang members — an Idaho prison inmate and the accomplice who helped him escape — following an attack on corrections officers at a Boise hospital.

Counties must spend about two-thirds of the money from a tax enacted for mental health services on housing and programs for homeless people with serious mental illnesses or substance abuse problems.

In the U.S., transportation is the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. A new report ranks which cities are doing the best job at driving down those emissions.

Fed policymakers voted to keep their benchmark interest rate at a two-decade high, where it's been since last summer. The stock market rallied on signals that the central bank expects to lower rates.

As America waits for the kickoff of the Men's and Women's NCAA Tournaments, NPR's providing listeners with mini profiles of talented players leading their teams into the tournamen.