Ellen Frankman

Another mass shooting occurred on Thursday, this time in Roseburg, Oregon at Umpqua Community College, about 180 miles south of Portland.

Over the weekend, a New Jersey high school quarterback died after sustaining game-related injuries. Now some are questioning if the game still has a place in schools.

Without Shell, local Alaskans and members of the oil and gas industry are left wondering how the state will move forward. Alaskan Gov. Bill Walker weighs in here.

The truth about good leaders is that they are often less honest than they appear.

The 266th Pontiff of the Catholic Church became the first Vicar of Christ to take the podium before a joint session of Congress today.

For answers to the migrant problem, officials are increasingly looking for a new approach to policy in Syria and Iraq. 

GOP candidate Dr. Ben Carson said that Islam is “incompatible with the Constitution” over the weekend. A former Bush administration official and Republican Muslim responds here.

Hundreds of thousands of onlookers are expected to gather across Pennsylvania, New York and Washington, D.C. to embrace Pope Francis on his five-day tour of the U.S.

The 2009 United Nations Summit on climate change produced few results. As world leaders prepare for the 2015 Summit in Paris, there are concrete reasons for optimism. 

There are an estimated 50,000 land mines buried beneath Croatian soil left over from the Balkan Wars.

Leading fantasy football companies are now valued at over a billion dollars, and some say what started as fun with friends has evolved into gambling.

Paul Duncan is a battalion chief with CalFire. He lives in Hidden Valley, California, and he fought the wildfire that ended up taking his home.

Hungary has declared a state of emergency in two southern counties and has imposed new anti-migration laws on the refugees desperate to cross from Serbia into the country. 

Julian Zelizer gives his thoughts on what the GOP can learn from the 17 Democrats who ran for president in 1976. 

Brilliant ideas often come from a combination of profit-seeking and the genuine desire to make the world a better place. 

In the wake of Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Gov. Jay Nixon appointed Captain Ron Johnson to coordinate law enforcement in the divided town. How is Ferguson fairing today? 

For more than 100 million Americans, their dying wishes are now available online, thanks to a three-year digitization project by the genealogical research firm Ancestry.

The Rhode Island Episcopal Diocese is planning a Center for Reconciliation in acknowledgement of both the state and the Diocese's long involvement with slavery.

For the first time in more than two decades, Royal Dutch Shell is preparing to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska's northwest coast.

There is a debate raging in the West over raising the royalties that energy companies pay for coal extracted from federal lands.