As ranked by the UCR staff, here are the 20 Best Rock Albums of the Half Decade: 2020-2025.

Layoffs announced by employers declined on a monthly basis in November but still pushed the 2025 total to the highest level since the wave of pandemic-induced layoffs in 2020, new data from Challenger ...

Remember in 2020 when folks said it couldn’t get worse for Black folks? Between the COVID-19 pandemic, racial tension after the murder of George Floyd and President Donald Trump in the White House, it ...

Mesa violent crime fell to 1,846 incidents in 2025, a significant decrease from the five-year peak of 2,144 reported in 2024.

U.S.-based employers have cut more than 1.17 million jobs so far in 2025, the highest level since the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from outplacement firm Challenger, ...

Employers added 50,000 jobs in December, notching a moderate gain for the economy but ending the worst year for the labor market since the pandemic-era recession. The unemployment rate ticked down to ...

As 2025 winds down, voters’ outlook on the year ending has improved, not only compared to 2024, but also year-over-year since 2020. Almost half say this was a good year for them personally, even as ...

Nvidia dumped over $5.5 billion into European startups in 2025. That’s not some rounded-up estimate. It’s the real number, ...

After briefly losing the position in January 2024 population estimates, Austin has returned to being the fourth-most-populous city in Texas. Two years ago, Fort Worth overtook the state capital in ...