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

Kentucky gained more than 100,000 residents from 2020 to 2025. That’s what recent Census estimates show. The data also show deaths exceeded births during those five years by more than 18,000.

In 2025, the initial public offering (IPO) market continued to rebound from the 2022 and 2023 slump. For the second year in a row, markets saw more IPOs, more special purpose acquisition companies ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

U.S. employers are still adding jobs in 2025, but the pace has cooled to its weakest level in a decade and a half outside the shock of 2020. Headline payroll gains remain positive, yet a mix of ...

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

The much-delayed September jobs report on Thursday painted a mixed picture of the U.S. labor market. On the one hand, nonfarm payrolls blew past estimates for the month. On the other hand, July and ...

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 ...

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 ...