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Facebook to label all rule-breaking posts, including Trump's

By Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press

CEO Mark Zuckerberg had previously refused to take action against Trump posts suggesting that mail-in ballots will lead to voter fraud. Twitter, by contrast, placed a "get the facts" label on them.

WATCH: Trump wants federal hiring to focus on skills over degrees

By Darlene Superville, Associated Press

President Donald Trump is preparing to direct the federal government to overhaul its hiring practices. That's the word from Trump administration and industry officials.

More Americans disapprove of Trump now than at any other time in his presidency

By Laura Santhanam

Less than five months before the election, significantly more Americans say they would vote for former Vice President Joe Biden than for President Donald Trump, according to this latest PBS NewsHour-NPR-Marist poll.

California to vote on electric truck sales rule

By Adam Beam, Cuneyt Dil, Associated Press

The rule is aimed at helping the nation's most populous state clean up its air quality and would require a certain percentage of work truck sales each year to be zero-emission vehicles.

With food-delivery apps like Uber Eats, who's actually making money?

By Paul Solman

During the pandemic, Americans have replaced dining out with take-out and delivery meals. As a result, more customers and restaurants are relying on apps like Grubhub and Uber Eats to transport food. But restaurants say the apps consume their profits,…

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U.S. GDP fell at 5.0% rate in first quarter, but worse is expected to come

By Martin Crutsinger, Associated Press

The U.S. economy shrank at a 5.0% rate in the first quarter with a much worse decline expected in the current three-month economic period because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Some private schools getting more virus relief funding than public schools, under DeVos formula

By Collin Binkley, Associated Press

The Trump administration is moving forward with a policy ordering public schools across the U.S. to share coronavirus relief funding with private schools at a higher rate than federal law typically requires.

U.S. sent $1.4 billion in virus relief payments to dead people

By Marcy Gordon, Associated Press

A government watchdog says nearly 1.1 million relief payments totaling some $1.4 billion went to dead people in the government’s coronavirus aid program.

How COVID-19 has made some colleges question the academic calendar

By Matt Krupnick, The Hechinger Report

You won’t know it from their mostly empty campuses, but colleges and universities will be bustling this summer. Experts say it’s time to rethink a calendar that dates back to when students had to go home to help on the…

Applications for jobless aid fall to nearly 1.5 million, a slowing but still-high level

By Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press

The number of laid-off workers who applied for unemployment benefits declined slightly to 1.48 million last week, the 12th straight drop and a sign that layoffs are slowing but are still at a painfully high level.