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Applications for jobless benefits are up again. "What we're seeing now is that lots more people who are unemployed are going to be unemployed for a longer period of time," economist Nick Bunker says.

You don't have to have big bucks to join the latest trend in philanthropy. Soup groups around the country let diners pool their money to support deserving local initiatives. In Philadelphia, one dinner raised $225 for a teacher's class project.

The media mogul turned prime minister left a mark on popular culture, while his coarseness and constant legal woes trashed political norms and tainted Italy's image in the world.

After the UK voted to leave the EU, a leadership crisis has emerged. Scott Simon talks with Daily Mirror associate editor Kevin Maguire about the personalities vying for power.

A federal judge will set a date for Trump's election obstruction case. Crowds mourn three Black people killed at a Dollar General in Florida. Pro surfers give kids in Maui a surf lesson.

Alabama is once again appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court a lower court order that struck down the state's congressional map for likely violating the Voting Rights Act by diluting Black voters' power.

The governor of Florida, who consistently polls second in the race, has been named by many as the successor to Trump. But he has failed to gain in the polls and personnel issues roil his campaign.

The shift to electronic medical payments gave rise to a new kind of health care middlemen, who now charge 1-5% every time insurers pay doctors. Here's how lobbyists convinced regulators this was OK.

The end of affirmative action and the increasing concerns about the cost of college have led the Biden administration and colleges to consider new measures to achieve diversity.

Deadly wildfires tear across the Hawaiian island of Maui. Spain and the Netherlands kick off the Women's World Cup quarterfinals tonight.