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You don't need a bachelor's degree to land a high-paying job

On average, a worker with a bachelor's degree will earn more than a worker who doesn't have one. But new research shows there are a lot of exceptions.

Stephanie Rimel looks at a photo of her brother Kyle Dixon, 27, who died of COVID-19 on Jan. 20. She says that during his illness and after his death, some people made insensitive comments or denied the pandemic's reality.

When COVID Deaths Are Dismissed Or Stigmatized, Grief Is Mixed With Shame And Anger

After their brother died, two sisters faced a barrage of misinformation, pandemic denialism and blaming questions. Grief experts say that makes COVID-19 the newest kind of "disenfranchising death."

Then-Vice President Joe Biden presides over a joint session of Congress in January 2017 to name Donald Trump formally as president-elect.

FACT CHECK: What Pence And Congress Can And Can't Do About The Election

Many Republicans have indicated they will object to the formal electoral vote count. There is a good chance it will become a spectacle, but there's next to no chance it will change the outcome.

People leave to board a flight at the airport in Kabul on Monday. Leaving Afghanistan for the U.S. has become a huge challenge now that American troops and embassy staff have left the country.

Afghans Trying To Get To The U.S. Face A Daunting Visa-Approval Process

An immigration lawyer in Virginia says she has clients also waiting to leave Afghanistan, but the cumbersome process — paired with a lack of U.S. assistance in the country — is a big challenge.

Patrice Howard writes on white flags before planting them to remember her recently deceased father and close friends in November at "IN AMERICA How Could This Happen...," a public art installation in Washington, D.C. Led by artist Suzanne Firstenberg, volunteers planted white flags in a field to symbolize each life lost to COVID-19 in the U.S.

American Life Expectancy Dropped By A Full Year In The First Half Of 2020

The group that suffered the largest drop in life expectancy was Black males — a decline of 3 years. Hispanic males also saw a large decrease, with a decline of 2.4 years.

Sharmistha Chaudhuri (center, wearing pink), 35, at her wedding in Kolkata, India, in January 2020. Chaudhuri found some Indian wedding traditions retrograde, so she hired four feminist priestesses to officiate at hers. They performed a multilingual, egalitarian ceremony stripped of patriarchal traditions.

Hindu priestesses fight the patriarchy, one Indian wedding at a time

The priestesses are part of a feminist push to make Hinduism more inclusive. Some have begun officiating at Indian weddings stripped of patriarchal traditions: No more "donating" brides to in-laws.

This September 2020 photo provided by Johnson & Johnson shows a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine being developed by the company.

Donated US Vaccines Arrive For Mexican Border Cities, Including Tijuana

Mexico has said the goal is to boost vaccination rates there to levels similar to the U.S. cities they adjoin.

A person wearing a mask walks past posters encouraging census participation in Seattle in April 2020. The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted not only last year's national head count, but also a critical follow-up survey that the U.S. Census Bureau relies on to determine the tally's accuracy.

How many people of color did the 2020 census miss? COVID makes it harder to tell

A final round of door knocking for a follow-up survey is now set to last until early 2022. Delays have raised concerns about whether the bureau can determine which groups the 2020 census undercounted.

Jessica Marie Ramirez attends a voting rights rally outside the Texas Capitol on July 8 in Austin.

In Texas, 666 Laws Take Effect Wednesday, Including Many Conservative Priorities

Hundreds of bills passed in the 2021 regular legislative session in Texas become law, including abortion and voting restrictions, a ban on critical race theory, permitless carry and more.

Marc Short, chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, listens during a coronavirus briefing with health insurers at the White House on March 10.

Pence Chief Of Staff Owns Stocks That Could Conflict With Coronavirus Response

Marc Short, chief of staff to Vice President Pence, owns between $506,043 and $1.64 million in stocks that could present conflicts of interest to his work on the White House work on the disease.

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