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The Federal Reserve hasn't raised short-term interest rates since 2006. Renee Montagne talks to David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution

An Oregon woman who has spent 17 years in prison on federal drug charges is among those granted clemency by President Obama today.

Environmental concerns over suction dredge mining have led to restrictions in Idaho, Oregon and California. Is Washington next?

As Europe grapples with its refugee crisis, another one is playing out in Southeast Asia. It involves ethnic Rohingya, the largest group of stateless people on the planet.

Under the Affordable Care Act, former foster youths get Medicaid coverage until age 26. Many of them aren't aware of that, and getting that information to them isn't always easy.

No school can succeed without the support of the families who send their children there.

Many kids reject or cough up the bitter adult-size pills for TB. The new ones dissolve in water and come in precise kid-size doses.

Oregon elections officials expect to add tens of thousands of new voters to the rolls starting in January. That's when the state's new automatic voter...

On January first, Oregon will join California in at least temporarily banning the use of a controversial gold-mining technique in which miners essentially…

"Evangelical" is one of the most poorly defined terms in the U.S. political conversation.