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U.S. employers added 49,000 jobs last month, after a pandemic-driven slump in December. Unemployment fell to 6.3%.

Seven Republicans joined with all Democrats and independents to vote to convict the former president for inciting an insurrection, but the tally is short of the two-thirds vote needed.

The Senate has acquitted former President Donald Trump on the charge of inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol siege. But Sen. Mitch McConnell and others point out that prosecutors have not yet had their say.

CEOs of Facebook, Twitter and Google testified before the House of Representatives on the falsehoods that circulate on their platforms regarding the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and COVID-19 vaccines.

Michael Hainey was 6 years old when he was told his father had died after "visiting friends." As he grew up, he began to suspect that the phrase was a euphemism.

The event will be unlike any other modern presidential speech before lawmakers thanks to pandemic restrictions and security requirements put in place after the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The pandemic has seen far fewer students go to college — that trend continued this fall, according to preliminary data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

Nearly 18 months into his tenure at DOJ, Attorney General Merrick Garland faces consequential decisions about the Jan. 6 attack and former President Donald Trump.

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.