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NPR's Eyder Peralta and Big 10 Network's Michele Steele discuss game 2 of the NBA Finals.

Nursing remains an overwhelmingly female occupation. But with nurses in high demand, male college students searching for stable careers are finding their way to the field.

The number of abortions is up in the United States. Is it because fewer people are using birth control pills?

From inflation, to credit card debt, to who's actually doing the spending: These are key takeaways from this week in economic news.

Read an exclusive excerpt of Allen Salkin's new history of the Food Network, From Scratch. It's an affectionate but unsparing look at a scrappy little startup network that became a national broadcasting behemoth — and brought people like Emeril Lagasse and Rachael Ray into millions of homes.

The federal minimum wage increases by 70 cents on Thursday to $6.55 an hour. About one quarter of the people who work for a minimum wage are teenagers, but most are adults like 63-year-old Shirley Golliday.

Freshman Republican Rep. Peter Meijer voted to impeach Trump following the Jan. 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol.

The 6-year-old Colorado boy who was thought to have floated away in an experimental balloon raised eyebrows when he said in a TV interview, "You guys said we did this for a show." When asked to clarify what he meant during another TV interview, the boy got sick.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 2 percent Monday, losing 186 points to finish at 9,135. China's main market slumped nearly 6 percent, as mounting worries about U.S. consumer spending reined in hopes for a quick global economic recovery despite news that the recession in Japan has ended.

Through an email blast, federal workers were given the opportunity to resign from their jobs before Feb. 6 and retain full pay and benefits through Sept. 30.