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In the United States, you need a good credit score to buy a home, get a credit card, qualify for good insurance, and in some cases, to get a job or rent an apartment. However, since credit scores were first introduced in 1989, many studies have argued they’ve widened the …

Here’s what you need to know: The manager of the Trump administration’s new virus database refuses Senate questioning, citing a nondisclosure agreement. If you recover from the virus, you may be protected for at least three months, the C.D.C. says. Clinical trials for potential virus treatments are taking longer than …

In case you missed it, the U.S. Department of Education is making huge changes to the federal student loan servicing system next year. It’s part of Secretary Betsy DeVos’s Next Gen Federal Student Aid initiative, which aims to improve the borrowing and repayment experience. The system will become a single, …

Here’s what you need to know: Outlook worsens in parts of the U.S. as July begins with a crush of cases. Federal workers in the U.S. are returning to their offices. The fullest look yet at the racial inequity of the virus in the U.S. The Louvre reopens, with considerably …

Photo by GaudiLab / Shutterstock.com If you are among the 16 million self-employed Americans, you might have assumed that the recent flurry of federal aid for struggling workers doesn’t apply to you. After all, the self-employed are often left out of unemployment programs. But this time you’d be wrong. Recent …

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday announced a national initiative to speed research into how the coronavirus was spreading around the country, bringing together at least 75 public health, academic and commercial institutions studying its genome. As the virus replicates, tiny mutations accumulate in its genetic code. …

At a time when the Trump administration is facing intense criticism for its failure to make coronavirus tests available to millions of nervous Americans, remarks by a federal health official on Tuesday appeared to suggest that the World Health Organization’s diagnostic tests were wildly inaccurate. In a somewhat rambling answer …

More than 40% of U.S. federal agencies and departments have experimented with AI tools, but only 15% currently use highly sophisticated AI, according to analysis by Stanford University computer scientists published today in “Government by Algorithm,” a joint report from Stanford and New York University. “This is concerning because agencies …