They hiked for an hour through the woods before reaching a perfectly vertical, 220-foot pit — a drop so deep that a single misstep meant certain death. As they rigged their ropes, one climber felt it ...

U.S. employers added a surprisingly solid 119,000 jobs in September, the government said, issuing a key economic report that had been delayed for seven weeks by the federal government shutdown. The ...

Europe, in the year 2025, is what NPR would look like if it ran a continent. This isn’t news — except to readers of the New York Times. The Fed needs to be raising interest rates to bring down ...