Cameron Drews

An Iowa man this week was found not guilty of sexually abusing his wife, whom nursing home staff members said was cognitively unable to give consent. How are these cases to be handled?

Most of President Obama's support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership has come from the GOP and big business. Democrats and others say it would drive wages down and encourage outsourcing. 

"The Originalist," a world-premiere play at Washington D.C.’s Arena Stage, explores the personality and legacy of an atypical theatrical character: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

David Passaro was an Army contractor who believed government officials had essentially given him permission to assault suspected terrorists.

Researchers at Duke University blocked the progression of memory loss in mice, and they hope to do the same for humans. 

You've either filed, are filing, or are filing an extension, but what if we had a deadline for Congress and the president for a comprehensive tax overhaul? 

Just the scent of new Game of Thrones episodes was enough to throw the internet (plus Seth Meyers, Sesame Street, and Key and Peele) into a tailspin this week. 

With U.S. forces absent from Yemen, one of the world's leading Yemen experts says it will weaken the local fight against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. 

Yemen's leader has fled, and the nation's defense minister was arrested. Amidst the chaos, Saudi Arabia is hitting back. Here's what the crisis means for a region beset by instability.

Ahead of the Nigerian elections, we look at how shady government practices can lead to instability and violence. 

The EPA says power plants that run on coal and oil emit too many harmful chemicals like mercury and arsenic. But industry backers say reducing emissions is too expensive. 

The man known as Dr. Death got the nation talking about doctor-assisted suicide. Now some states have laws allowing the practice. 

Ilya Ponomarev, a member of the Russian parliament, has been living in exile here in the U.S. because of his opposition to President Putin.

If you're a little tired today, it might be because it's the first Monday after daylight saving time. We trace the history of standardized time and the rise of portable timepieces. 

The Nigerian terrorist group, now allied with ISIS, has roughly 6,000 members and controls about 8,000 square miles of territory in northeastern Nigeria.

Early pictures of the planet Ceres reveal tiny bright spots that could be frozen ice, and further study of its surface could answer questions about the formation of our solar system. 

Oklahoma is on its way to becoming the first state to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates. The method has never been used for executions anywhere in the world. 

On Sunday, tens of thousands of protesters marched in Moscow to honor deceased politician and Putin critic Boris Nemtsov, who was fatally shot on Friday.

At the San Diego Zoo, researches freeze genetic material from endangered species on the brink of extinction. 

Large cargo ships are sitting idle today along the West Coast. No one is unloading them because of a labor dispute. These ports account for 43 percent of container traffic in the U.S.