National health expenditures are projected to grow at an average annual rate of 5.5 percent for 2018–27 and represent 19.4 percent of gross domestic product in 2027. Following a ten-year period ...

Sunburned? You're not the only one. According to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2018 is on pace to be the fourth hottest year on record. Only three other years ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. As the year comes to a close, flags across the country are still flying ...

US health care spending increased 4.6 percent to reach $3.6 trillion in 2018, a faster growth rate than the rate of 4.2 percent in 2017 but the same rate as in 2016. The share of the economy devoted ...

A lot happened in 2018, but perhaps what social media users noticed most was the uptick of racist and hate-fueled incidents dominating their newsfeeds. Here a sampling of some of the incidents, ...

Watch a preview of the 2018 National Memorial Day Concert. Watch a preview of the 2018 National Memorial Day Concert featuring General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.), Allison Janney, Leona Lewis, Graham ...

Sarah Leen has a job most people in the world would envy. She looks at photographs for a living. And not just any photographs — National Geographic photographs. As our Director of Photography, Leen ...

Editors look back at the best National Geographic writing and storytelling of 2018. Here are some of their favorites. Two cavers swim in a pool at the deepest point of the world's deepest cave as team ...

Odds for the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship game have been released. The No. 4 Alabama Crimson Tide opened as a four-point favorite over the No. 3 Georgia Bulldogs at most books.