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Youth joblessness remains remarkably high across the country, threatening long-term trouble for young people's career trajectories, earning potential and the overall health of the economy.

A new study suggests that learning to play a musical instrument helps improve the brain's ability to process language. That means music lessons could give kids from low-income communities a big boost.

The jump is 12% more than the year before and came as rents and inflation skyrocketed. The increase was driven by families and those who lost housing for the first time.

A new Florida Senate bill proposes a trial program to adopt music-based supplements to support math classes in middle schools. Alachua, Marion and Miami-Dade are the only counties eligible for the program as of Jan. 17. Middle schools would adopt the program July 1 and test it for two years until its end on June 30, 2026.

Police fired tear gas and imposed an overnight curfew to control looters who sacked virtually every market in the hard-hit city of Concepcion, as terrifying aftershocks turned more buildings into rubble and forced thousands to set up tents in parks and grassy highway medians.

Police fired tear gas and imposed an overnight curfew to control looters who sacked virtually every market in the hard-hit city of Concepcion, as terrifying aftershocks turned more buildings into rubble and forced thousands to set up tents in parks and grassy highway medians.

The state supreme court will decide whether it stays at 15 weeks or goes to six weeks.

About 100 people gathered to celebrate Juneteenth and Black Music Month at the Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center Friday.

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